Work & commute · Keaau

Work & commute in Keaau, HI

Most working residents leave Keaau for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Hilo (38%), Urban Honolulu (19%) and Kailua (7%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

6 of 106 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 100 Keaau residents head out of town to work, 6 work right here, and 2,115 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Keaau.

100live here, work elsewhere

6live and work here

2,115work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Keaau goes to work

Hilo5 mi away

38%40

Urban Honolulu216 mi away

19%20

Kailua61.8 mi away

7%7

Keaau (in town)right here

6%6

Pahoa11.1 mi away

4%4

Hawaiian Ocean View59.8 mi away

3%3

Kailua212.7 mi away

2%2

Kahului125.5 mi away

2%2

Captain Cook55.7 mi away

2%2

Hawaiian Paradise Park5.5 mi away

2%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

17%18

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Keaau commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

49%

46%

49%Under 10 mi

4%10–24 mi

1%25–50 mi

46%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Keaau is a job hub

20.01jobs per working resident

A job hub

20.0 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Keaau are

2,121 jobs are based in Keaau. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Keaau’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Keaau

2,121 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month60%

Jobs Keaau residents hold

106 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less6%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month61%

+21%

Jobs based in Keaau, 2013 → 2023: 1,746 → 2,121. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe 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 saysA 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 surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.