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Work & commute in Kaumakani · A commuter town

99% of Kaumakani’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Kaumakani for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Urban Honolulu (21%), Poipu (15%) and Waimea (9%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Work in town
1%
1 of 169 working residents
Typical commute
17 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
20 min
Less than HI (26 min)
Work from home
0%
Less than HI (10%)
Jobs based here
78
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Kaumakani?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The commute map

21% of working residents work in Urban Honolulu

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

Eleele: 10 residents work here (6%)Hanapepe: 8 residents work here (5%)PuhiKekaha: 3 residents work here (2%)KaumakaniWaimea: 15 residents work here (9%)Pakala VillagePoipu: 26 residents work here (15%)Kalaheo: 10 residents work here (6%)LawaiKaneohe Base: 4 residents work here (2%)Lihue: 15 residents work here (9%)KapaaUrban Honolulu: 35 residents work here (21%)Hilo: 6 residents work here (4%)Urban HonoluluPoipuWaimeaLihueEleeleKalaheoKaumakani
1
Urban Honolulu121.4 mi away
21%35
2
Poipu11.1 mi away
15%26
3
Waimea4.3 mi away
9%15
4
Lihue17.8 mi away
9%15
5
Eleele3 mi away
6%10
6
Kalaheo7 mi away
6%10
7
Hanapepe2.7 mi away
5%8
8
Hilo331.4 mi away
4%6
9
Kaneohe Base124.8 mi away
2%4
10
Kekaha6.6 mi away
2%3
Everywhere elseother towns and states
22%37
The top trips

Where Kaumakani clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

Time on the road

About 20 minutes each way, quicker than most of Hawaii

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
151 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Kaumakani20 min
Hawaii26 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
0%

of Kaumakani workers work from home, vs 10% across Hawaii. Their commute is the hallway.

About 0 in 10
Day and night

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 168 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 77 people come in from elsewhere.

168live here, work elsewhere
1live and work here
77work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night1,000
Workday920
1,000live here− 170head out to work+ 77come in to work= 920on a workday

About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.46jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

0.46 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

How far

Half of Kaumakani commutes less than 17 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi50 mi80 miUrban Honolulu: 21% · 121.4 miPoipu: 15% · 11.1 miWaimea: 9% · 4.3 miLihue: 9% · 17.8 miEleele: 6% · 3 miKalaheo: 6% · 7 miHanapepe: 5% · 2.7 miHilo: 4% · 331.4 miKaneohe Base: 2% · 124.8 miKekaha: 2% · 6.6 miUrban Honolulu 21%Poipu 15%Waimea 9%Lihue 9%Kaumakani
KaumakaniTop destinations (size = commuters)
34%Under 10 mi58 residents
25%10–24 mi43 residents
0%25–50 mi0 residents
40%Over 50 mi68 residents

About 40% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.

Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.

The jobs

74% of the jobs in Kaumakani pay over $3,333 a month

78 jobs are based in Kaumakani. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Kaumakani’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in KaumakaniJobs Kaumakani residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms24%14%
Trade, transport & utilities10%14%
Services: health, schools, offices65%72%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less1%11%
$1,251–$3,333 a month24%28%
Over $3,333 a month74%61%

Who does it

29 or younger9%21%
30 to 5453%47%
55 and older38%32%
+239%

Jobs based in Kaumakani, 2013 → 2023: 23 → 78. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Every worker, home to work. The Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.
  • Where the employer says. A job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.
  • Two surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
  • Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
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Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.

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