Aiea is a somewhat small coastal town (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of Hawaii. With a population of 9,019 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Aiea is the 27th largest community in Hawaii.

Aiea is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Aiea is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Aiea who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.87%), sales jobs (11.54%), and management occupations (10.60%).

There are many members of the armed forces living in Aiea. You will notice when you visit or live here that some of the people you meet or see around town are employed by the armed services - even if they are not always in uniform.

The town is also nautical, which means that parts of Aiea are somewhat historic and bounded by the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery.

Being a small town, Aiea does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Aiea Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Aiea is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 28.79% of adults in Aiea have a college degree.

The per capita income in Aiea in 2000 was $25,111, which is wealthy relative to Hawaii, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $100,444 for a family of four. However, Aiea contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Aiea is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Aiea home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Aiea is Asian, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Aiea include Portuguese, English, and German.

The languages spoken by people in Aiea are also diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in Aiea is English. Other important languages spoken here include Japanese, Other Pacific Island languages, and Tagalog.