Kahului, Hawaii.
Typical home $1,006,867 (-2.2% in a year), asking rent $2,550 . Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, HI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,848 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $22,398 -2%
- $1,029,265$1,006,867 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $203,243 +25%
- $803,624$1,006,867 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.
- Kahului$5,285
- 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 Kahului, HI fell 2.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kahului, Maui County, Hawaii
Kahului, in Maui County, had 28,219 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $98,077 a year and half less, against $97,161 across Maui County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Maui County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kahului is a community on Maui's north side, and its household incomes sit close to the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though typical home values and rents are high. Residents are a little older than the typical American, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults.
Work. Many residents work in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with others in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in town are Walmart, Target and OGG Kahului Airport. Commutes are fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. In or beside town, Kanaha Pond State Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected area, and the Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum looks at the island's plantation past. A short drive away, Maui Ocean Center is an aquarium. For a longer outing, Haleakalā National Park is a longer drive away. Winters are mild and warm, summers are hot, and the year brings little rain.
Report a mistake
- 8,330households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Maui County had 74,407 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 82° and lows near 64°; warmest in September, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kahului Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kahului
- WalmartDiscount department stores478
- TargetDiscount department stores448
- Hale Makua Health ServicesConvalescent homes or convalescent hospitals310
- OGG Kahului AirportScheduled passenger air transportation308
- University of Hawaii Maui CollegeUniversity or college285
- AlphaConstruction management, water and sewer line260
- Altres Inc.Industrial building construction222
- Unifi Aviation Services OGG KahuluiSupport activities for air transportation218
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 59 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,479 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24). 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
- EarthquakesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- TsunamisRelatively high
- Volcanic activityrelatively high in parts of KahuluiRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kahului’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very high. 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 Maui County and the Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, HI metro.
Kahului home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kahului$1,006,867
- Hawaii$832,932
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Kahului listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Kahului24.16%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kahului67
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Kahului14
Zip codes with a Kahului address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kahului — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.