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Hanapepe - Kaumakani, HI

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Overview


Hanapepe - Kaumakani is a very small coastal town (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of Hawaii. With a population of 3,795 people and just one neighborhood, Hanapepe - Kaumakani is the 36th largest community in Hawaii.

Housing costs in Hanapepe - Kaumakani are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in Hawaii.

Occupations and Workforce

Hanapepe - Kaumakani is a blue-collar town, with 38.68% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Hanapepe - Kaumakani is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hanapepe - Kaumakani who work in maintenance occupations (12.97%), farm management occupations (11.05%), and office and administrative support (7.49%).

You will also find that a lot of people in Hanapepe - Kaumakani work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.

Setting & Lifestyle

Hanapepe - Kaumakani is also nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Quite often, nautical areas such as these attract visitors and locals who come to enjoy the scenery and various waterfront activities.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Hanapepe - Kaumakani is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.86% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Hanapepe - Kaumakani in 2018 was $31,281, which is lower middle income relative to Hawaii, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $125,124 for a family of four. However, Hanapepe - Kaumakani contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Hanapepe - Kaumakani is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Hanapepe - Kaumakani home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hanapepe - Kaumakani residents report their race to be Asian, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Hanapepe - Kaumakani include Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Austrian, and German.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Hanapepe - Kaumakani's cultural character, accounting for 33.02% of the town’s population.

The most common language spoken in Hanapepe - Kaumakani is English. Other important languages spoken here include Tagalog and Pacific Island languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 31 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Do you like a coastal setting? If so, this neighborhood may be to your liking. The neighborhood is on the ocean, a bay, or inlet. Often such coastal places have amenities and recreational activities on the waterfront that are attractive to residents and visitors alike. In addition to being coastal, is a very nautical neighborhood, meaning that it is somewhat historic, walkable, densely populated and on the water. This gives the neighborhood a very nautical feel, with some seaside and shipping feel, which some may really enjoy the sights and sounds of.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.1% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 40.4% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.3% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Asian and Portuguese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 61.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Asian ancestry and 6.4% have Portuguese ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 13.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Tagalog, which is the first language of the Philippine region, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Hanapepe - Kaumakani are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.5% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 73.3% of America's neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 32.6% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (16.9%), and 11.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 59.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region) and Japanese.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Hanapepe - Kaumakani, HI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (61.6%). There are also a number of people of Portuguese ancestry (6.4%), and residents who report Italian roots (3.8%), and some of the residents are also of Spanish ancestry (3.3%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (2.1%), among others. In addition, 33.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (14.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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