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Work & commute in Nanawale Estates · A commuter town

99% of Nanawale Estates’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Nanawale Estates for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Urban Honolulu (21%), Hilo (17%) and Pahoa (9%). Half commute less than 69 miles.

Work in town
1%
1 of 95 working residents
Typical commute
69 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
36 min
More than HI (26 min)
Work from home
1%
Less than HI (10%)
Jobs based here
42
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Nanawale Estates?

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.

AuroraClay CenterBostonLivoniaNorth CantonPahoa: 9 residents work here (9%)Nanawale EstatesWaipahu: 2 residents work here (2%)Kurtistown: 2 residents work here (2%)Waikoloa Beach Resort: 3 residents work here (3%)Kailua: 3 residents work here (3%)Kahului: 4 residents work here (4%)Hawaiian Paradise Park: 6 residents work here (6%)Hawaiian Beaches: 4 residents work here (4%)KaiminaniUrban Honolulu: 20 residents work here (21%)Hilo: 16 residents work here (17%)Urban HonoluluHiloPahoaHawaiian Paradise ParkKahuluiHawaiian BeachesNanawale Estates
1
Urban Honolulu228 mi away
21%20
2
Hilo17 mi away
17%16
3
Pahoa2.3 mi away
9%9
46%6
5
Kahului137.7 mi away
4%4
6
Hawaiian Beaches3.1 mi away
4%4
73%3
8
Kailua224.9 mi away
3%3
9
Waipahu239.1 mi away
2%2
10
Kurtistown11.9 mi away
2%2
Everywhere elseother towns and states
27%26
The top trips

Where Nanawale Estates 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 36 minutes each way, longer than most of Hawaii

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

A year of commuting
272 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.3 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Nanawale Estates36 min
Hawaii26 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
1%

of Nanawale Estates 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 94 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 41 people come in from elsewhere.

94live here, work elsewhere
1live and work here
41work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night1,700
Workday1,600
1,700live here− 94head out to work+ 41come in to work= 1,600on 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?
0.44jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

0.44 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 Nanawale Estates commutes less than 69 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% · 228 miHilo: 17% · 17 miPahoa: 9% · 2.3 miHawaiian Paradise Park: 6% · 7.1 miKahului: 4% · 137.7 miHawaiian Beaches: 4% · 3.1 miWaikoloa Beach Resort: 3% · 69.5 miKailua: 3% · 224.9 miWaipahu: 2% · 239.1 miKurtistown: 2% · 11.9 miUrban Honolulu 21%Hilo 17%Pahoa 9%Hawaiian Paradise Park 6%Kahului 4%Nanawale Estates
Nanawale EstatesTop destinations (size = commuters)
22%Under 10 mi21 residents
20%10–24 mi19 residents
0%25–50 mi0 residents
58%Over 50 mi55 residents

About 58% 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

What the 42 jobs in Nanawale Estates are

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

Jobs based in Nanawale EstatesJobs Nanawale Estates residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms26%12%
Trade, transport & utilities17%26%
Services: health, schools, offices57%62%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less40%14%
$1,251–$3,333 a month36%33%
Over $3,333 a month24%54%

Who does it

29 or younger10%12%
30 to 5455%63%
55 and older36%25%
+91%

Jobs based in Nanawale Estates, 2013 → 2023: 22 → 42. 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.

Next door

Nanawale Estates and the towns next door

The biggest share goes to Pahoa (9%). Darker towns draw more of Nanawale Estates’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

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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