About Heeia

Heeia is a very small coastal town (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of Hawaii. With a population of 4,915 people and just one neighborhood, Heeia is the 40th largest community in Hawaii.

Heeia is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 86.67% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Heeia is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Heeia who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.80%), sales jobs (13.20%), and management occupations (10.72%).

Also of interest is that Heeia has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Heeia is home to a number of people employed in the armed forces. When you visit or walk around Heeia, some of the people you will bump into will be military people In and out of uniform, jogging, shopping and generally out and about town.

In addition, Heeia is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

The town is also nautical, which means that parts of Heeia 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, Heeia does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Heeia Information and Demographics

The education level of Heeia citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 41.17% of adults in Heeia have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Heeia in 2000 was $33,990, which is wealthy relative to Hawaii and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $135,960 for a family of four. However, Heeia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Heeia is English. Some people also speak Japanese.