About Maunawili

Maunawili is a very small town located in the state of Hawaii. With a population of 4,824 people and just one neighborhood, Maunawili is the 42nd largest community in Hawaii.

Maunawili is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 85.93% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Maunawili is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Maunawili who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.91%), sales jobs (13.69%), and teaching (9.72%).

Of important note, Maunawili is also a town of artists. Maunawili has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Maunawili's character.

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

In addition, Maunawili 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.

Because of many things, Maunawili is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Maunawili really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Maunawili perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Maunawili is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Maunawili Information and Demographics

The education level of Maunawili citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 44.11% of adults in Maunawili have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Maunawili in 2000 was $30,551, which is wealthy relative to Hawaii and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $122,204 for a family of four. However, Maunawili contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Maunawili is English. Other important languages spoken here include Other Pacific Island languages and Japanese.