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Work & commute in Waipio Acres · Balanced

100% of Waipio Acres’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Waipio Acres for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Urban Honolulu (33%), Kapolei (7%) and Mililani Mauka (4%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Work in town
0%
0 of 155 working residents
Typical commute
12 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
30 min
More than HI (26 min)
Work from home
6%
Less than HI (10%)
Jobs based here
117
Balanced

What kind of work town is Waipio Acres?

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

★ What stands out · The commute map

33% 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.

Whitmore VillageWaipio AcresKo Olina: 4 residents work here (3%)WaialuaWahiawa: 3 residents work here (2%)Napili-HonokowaiWaipahu: 3 residents work here (2%)NanakuliPupukea: 3 residents work here (2%)Mililani TownMililani Mauka: 6 residents work here (4%)Kapolei: 11 residents work here (7%)Kaneohe: 6 residents work here (4%)Kailua: 5 residents work here (3%)Pearl City: 5 residents work here (3%)East HonoluluUrban Honolulu: 51 residents work here (33%)Urban HonoluluKapoleiMililani MaukaKaneoheKailuaPearl CityWaipio Acres
1
Urban Honolulu14.8 mi away
33%51
2
Kapolei9.5 mi away
7%11
3
Mililani Mauka1.5 mi away
4%6
4
Kaneohe15.2 mi away
4%6
5
Kailua18.8 mi away
3%5
6
Pearl City6 mi away
3%5
7
Ko Olina11.2 mi away
3%4
8
Wahiawa2.2 mi away
2%3
9
Waipahu5.8 mi away
2%3
10
Pupukea12.9 mi away
2%3
Everywhere elseother towns and states
37%58
The top trips

Where Waipio Acres clocks in

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

Day and night

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 155 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 117 people come in from elsewhere.

155live here, work elsewhere
0live and work here
117work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night5,300
Workday5,300
5,300live here− 160head out to work+ 120come in to work= 5,300on 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?
0.75jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

About as many jobs as working residents (0.75 per resident).

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 Waipio Acres 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.

10 mi25 mi30 miUrban Honolulu: 33% · 14.8 miKapolei: 7% · 9.5 miMililani Mauka: 4% · 1.5 miKaneohe: 4% · 15.2 miKailua: 3% · 18.8 miPearl City: 3% · 6 miKo Olina: 3% · 11.2 miWahiawa: 2% · 2.2 miWaipahu: 2% · 5.8 miPupukea: 2% · 12.9 miUrban Honolulu 33%Kapolei 7%Mililani Mauka 4%Kaneohe 4%Kailua 3%Waipio Acres
Waipio AcresTop destinations (size = commuters)
30%Under 10 mi47 residents
63%10–24 mi98 residents
0%25–50 mi0 residents
6%Over 50 mi10 residents

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

The jobs

What the 117 jobs in Waipio Acres are

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

Jobs based in Waipio AcresJobs Waipio Acres residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms11%11%
Trade, transport & utilities26%24%
Services: health, schools, offices62%65%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less15%17%
$1,251–$3,333 a month38%28%
Over $3,333 a month47%54%

Who does it

29 or younger19%28%
30 to 5454%46%
55 and older27%26%
+31%

Jobs based in Waipio Acres, 2013 → 2023: 89 → 117. 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.

Time on the road

About 30 minutes each way, longer than most of Hawaii

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

A year of commuting
231 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.6 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Waipio Acres30 min
Hawaii26 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
6%

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

About 1 in 10

How Waipio Acres ranks on commute time →

Next door

Waipio Acres and the towns next door

The biggest share goes to Mililani Mauka (4%). Darker towns draw more of Waipio Acres’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

10%+5–9%2–4%1%Under 1%

Average commute minutes, one way

Mililani Mauka29 min
Mililani Town30 min
Waipio Acres30 min
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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