Kaaawa, Hawaii.
Typical home $1,050,214 (+5.3% in a year). Urban Honolulu, HI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,986 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $52,865 +5%
- $997,349$1,050,214 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $216,091 +26%
- $834,123$1,050,214 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.
- Kaaawa$5,512
- Hawaii$4,372
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Kaaawa, HI rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kaaawa, Honolulu County, Hawaii
Kaaawa, in Honolulu County, had 1,421 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Honolulu County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Honolulu County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kaaawa is a small community on Oahu, with homes that cost far more than a typical American house. Winters are mild and summers only a little warmer, with little or no snow and a fair amount of rain through the year. Many adults hold a four-year degree, and the commute to work tends to run long.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, professional and business services, and shops. Across Honolulu County, the largest workplaces include the Hawaii Department of Education schools, The Queen's Medical Center and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. Byodo-in Temple, a park with a temple setting, and the Kaukonahua River are both a short drive away. Lanikai Beach is a longer drive away, as is the Honolulu Museum of Art for a day indoors.
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- 524households
- 50%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Honolulu County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Honolulu County had 455,202 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in March, with highs near 78° and lows near 67°; warmest in September, with highs near 85° and lows near 74°. About 51 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kapaka Farm weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Honolulu County
- Hawaii Department of Education SchoolsSchool district23,107FTE
- HNL HonolululScheduled passenger air transportation9,793
- Alaska Air Group HAWAIIAN AIRLINES, INC.-HONOLULUScheduled passenger air transportation5,657
- THE Queens Medical CenterGeneral hospital4,836FTE
- University of Hawaii at ManoaUniversity or college4,276
- Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc.Hotels1,859
- Aulani, A Disney Resort & SpaResort hotels without casinos1,657
- Straub Clinic & HospitalGeneral hospital1,558FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 644 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 95,947 people in all across the county; Kaaawa has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- LandslidesRelatively high
- TsunamisRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kaaawa’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Honolulu County and the Urban Honolulu, HI metro.
Kaaawa home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kaaawa$1,050,214
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a Kaaawa address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kaaawa — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.