Every workday, about 1,200 people come to Royal Kunia for work
Most working residents leave Royal Kunia for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Urban Honolulu (47%), Kapolei (4%) and Waipahu (3%). Half commute less than 12 miles.
The short version on getting to work from Royal Kunia
Royal Kunia and Urban Honolulu trade workers both ways
Urban Honolulu is the top workplace for Royal Kunia residents (47%) and also where the most people who work in Royal Kunia come from (47% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Royal Kunia has far more jobs than workers
Royal Kunia has 1,182 jobs, 3.3 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
40% of the jobs in Royal Kunia are in trade, transport and utilities, against 23% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 359 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Royal Kunia’s workers come from
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Royal Kunia clocks in
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 356 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 1,179 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
3.3 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
What the 1,182 jobs in Royal Kunia are
1,182 jobs are based in Royal Kunia. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Royal Kunia’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Royal Kunia, 2013 → 2023: 1,187 → 1,182. 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.
Half of Royal Kunia commutes less than 12 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
About 31 minutes each way, longer than most of Hawaii
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Royal Kunia workers work from home, vs 10% across Hawaii. Their commute is the hallway.
Royal Kunia and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Waipahu (3%). Darker towns draw more of Royal Kunia’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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.
More of Royal Kunia
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Royal Kunia, from the people who make the trip.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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.