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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Kalihi Lower East median real estate price is $1,052,579, which is more expensive than 66.9% of the neighborhoods in Hawaii and 93.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Kalihi Lower East is currently $2,227, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 85.5% of Hawaii neighborhoods.

Kalihi Lower East is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Kalihi Lower East real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Kalihi Lower East neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.

Real estate vacancies in Kalihi Lower East are 4.6%, which is lower than one will find in 69.5% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Kalihi Lower East is above average for the U.S., and may signal some demand for either price increases or new construction of residential product for this neighborhood.

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.

Car Ownership

We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the Kalihi Lower East neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 55.6% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.9% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Real Estate

If you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the Kalihi Lower East neighborhood. The ambiance, the charm, of row houses is something special. And in sheer abundance of row houses, this neighborhood truly stands out. The real estate here has a higher proportion of row houses and attached homes than nearly any neighborhood in America. In fact, 44.6% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.

In addition, the Kalihi Lower East neighborhood is very densely populated compared to most U.S. neighborhoods. In fact, with 30,433 persons per square mile in the neighborhood, it is more packed with people than 97.0% of the nation's neighborhoods.

Furthermore, one way that the Kalihi Lower East neighborhood really stands out, is that it has more large 4, 5, or additional bedroom homes and real estate than 96.6% of the neighborhoods in America. When you walk or drive around this neighborhood, you'll instantly notice the size of the homes here which definitely makes a strong visual statement.

Modes of Transportation

Our research revealed that more commuters here take the bus to work (15.9% ride the bus) than 97.6% of all American neighborhoods. If you like the idea of leaving your car and home and hopping the bus to work, this might be a good neighborhood for you to consider.

Diversity

Did you know that the Kalihi Lower East neighborhood has more Asian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 81.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Asian ancestry.

Kalihi Lower East is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 22.4% 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 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

Migration / Stability

The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. What is interesting to note, is that the Kalihi Lower East neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (43.3%) than are found in 95.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Kalihi Lower East neighborhood in Honolulu are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 92.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.1% 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 52.9% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the Kalihi Lower East neighborhood, 37.0% 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 clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 26.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.2%), and 17.2% in executive, management, and professional 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 Kalihi Lower East neighborhood is English, spoken by 42.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region), Japanese and Chinese.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the Kalihi Lower East neighborhood in Honolulu, HI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (81.7%). There are also a number of people of Spanish ancestry (4.5%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (4.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.2%). In addition, 43.3% 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 Kalihi Lower East neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (58.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also ride the bus to get to work (15.9%) and 15.8% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. 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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