Eleele, Hawaii.
Typical home $842,349 (-0.8% in a year). Kapaa, HI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,440 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,064 -1%
- $849,413$842,349 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $193,766 +30%
- $648,583$842,349 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Eleele$4,421
- Hawaii$4,372
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Eleele, HI fell 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eleele, Kauai County, Hawaii
Eleele, in Kauai County, had 2,515 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $118,438 a year and half less, against $97,668 across Kauai County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Kauai County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in restaurants and hotels, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Eleele is a small community on Kauai where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the people who live there tend to be somewhat older than in many places. Household incomes are above the county's, and few residents live below the poverty line, though a typical home is costly. Winters are mild and summers warm, with highs that stay in a narrow range through the year, little or no snow, and modest rainfall.
Work. Residents work mostly in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, and in shops. Across Kauai County, some of the largest workplaces are the Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort and Spa, the Royal Sonesta Kaua`i Resort and Wilcox Memorial Hospital. A typical commute is a modest one, and almost nobody works from home.
Things to do. Glass Beach is in or beside town, and the Hanapēpē River runs close by as well. A short drive away is Russian Fort Elizabeth, a historic fort. Allerton Garden, a botanical garden, is also a short drive away, while Waimea Canyon State Park is a longer drive.
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- 701households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kauai County had 33,298 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in February, with highs near 80° and lows near 64°; warmest in August, with highs near 87° and lows near 72°. About 23 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Makaweli weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kauai County
- Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort and SpaKauai783
- Royal Sonesta Kaua`i Resort531
- 1 Hotel Hanalei BayHotels507
- Wilcox Memorial HosptialGeneral hospital443FTE
- TargetDiscount department stores276
- WalmartDiscount department stores267
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer265
- Koloa Landing ResortHotels, resort, without casinos246
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 76 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,249 people in all across the county; Eleele has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- LightningVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Eleele’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Kauai County and the Kapaa, HI metro.
Eleele home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eleele$842,349
- Hawaii$832,932
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Eleele address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eleele — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.