Ewa BeachHI
A town of 14,376.
Is Ewa Beach a good place to live?
Ewa Beach’s best subject grades are an A+ for walkability and an A− for incomes and the outdoors; its weakest is a D− for hazard risk. Ewa Beach’s average trip to work is 38 minutes, where Hawaii’s towns sit at 28 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes. On walkability, just 5 of Hawaii’s 125 towns do better. Ewa Beach’s trail density is 1.7 miles per square mile, against 0.5 in Hawaii’s towns and 0.4 across U.S. towns. Ewa Beach has no overall grade: it has no figures for safety and schools, and an overall grade needs at least three of the four big subjects (cost of living, safety, schools and health).
What makes Ewa Beach stand out
Where Ewa Beach beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
Every workday, about 429 people come to Ewa Beach for work
Where Ewa Beach’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Ewa Beach grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Hawaii), ordered by how far Ewa Beach is from typical.
Ewa Beach has no overall grade: it has no figures for safety and schools, and an overall grade needs at least three of the four big subjects (cost of living, safety, schools and health).
How TownRatings grades towns →
USS Missouri and 46 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Ewa Beach. Close and well known come first.
Big draw5 mi MuseumUSS Missouri
5 mi MuseumUSS Arizona Memorial
6 mi Stadium & arenaAloha Stadium
13 mi MountainDiamond Head
12 mi BeachWaikīkī
6 mi MuseumUSS BowfinPhoto credits
USS Missouri: Camera Operator: EM2 KENNETH D. MEHL (Released to Public), Public domain · USS Arizona Memorial: DoD photo by: PH3(AW/SW) JAYME PASTORIC, USN, Public domain · Aloha Stadium: This photo was taken and originally uploaded by Bobak to English Wikipedia. Uplo, CC BY 3.0 · Diamond Head: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Waikīkī: Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0 · USS Bowfin: Max Smith, Public domain
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Moving to Ewa Beach: who provides what
Ewa Beach is unincorporated, so Honolulu County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Ewa Beach.
About one in three of Ewa Beach’s working residents commute to Urban Honolulu
Most working residents leave Ewa Beach for work: only 0% work in town. Ewa Beach’s median household income is $124,000. The top destinations are Urban Honolulu (36%), Waipahu (3%) and Mililani Town (3%).
| Ewa Beach | Hawaii towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $124,000 | $100,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 4.9% | 9.7% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.4% | 3.7% | 8% |
| Work from home | 7.3% | 8.2% | 11% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The schools Ewa Beach’s kids attend
Its public schools are run by the Hawaii Department of Education school district. Two of its 4 schools are below, each with why it’s listed. The largest public high school is James Campbell High School, with 2,890 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ilima Intermediate SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 7–8 | Grades 7–8 | 725 | B− |
| James Campbell High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 2,890 | B+ |
NCES · EDFacts
Very high risk in Ewa Beach, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 98% of U.S. communities. Since 2020, 2 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Ewa Beach.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Ewa Beach ranks healthier than 76% of the country’s towns
Ewa Beach beats the Hawaii average on 5 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 49% of adults sleep under 7 hours in Ewa Beach. Among 93 Hawaii towns, just 7 have a lower share of adults who have been diagnosed with depression than Ewa Beach.
| Ewa Beach | Hawaii towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 49% | 45% | 36% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 17% | 23% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 27% | 35% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 16% | 17% |
| What stands out | Ewa Beach | HI |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 5.5% | 6.7% |
| Fewer adults with COPD | 4.5% | 5.3% |
| More adults lacking emotional support | 34.4% | 30.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
In Ewa Beach, expect mild winters and pleasant summers
Ewa Beach has warm winters and warm summers, with very little rain. July afternoons reach 87°, January nights drop to 62° and snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Ewa Beach Community Park | — | 13 |
| 2. Puuloa Beach Park | — | 5 |
| 3. PuuloaPark | — | 4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Homes in Ewa Beach are worth about $832K, by Zillow’s estimate
The typical Ewa Beach home is worth about $832,000, up 2.2% in a year, close to the Hawaii typical home. The median rent in Ewa Beach is $2,522 a month.
| Ewa Beach | Hawaii towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $2,522 a month | $2,009 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 73% | 71% | 73% |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Ewa Beach
Colleges nearby
12 within 15 miles of the center of Ewa Beach
About 4 of every 100 Ewa Beach residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Hawaii.
About Ewa Beach
Census-designated place in Hawaii, United States
ʻEwa Beach () or simply ʻEwa (Hawaiian pronunciation: [ˈʔɛvə]; ) is a census-designated place (CDP) located in ʻEwa District and the City & County of Honolulu along the coast of Māmala Bay on the leeward side of Oʻahu in Hawaii. As of the 2020 Census, the CDP had a total population of 16,415. The U.S. postal code for ʻEwa Beach is 96706.
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- Area
- 1.9 sq mi
- Elevation
- 10 ft
- ZIP code
- 96706
- Area code
- 808
Ewa Beach’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Ewa Beach.
| Town | HI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ewa Beach | — | — | C− | — | — | A− |
| Ocean Pointe | — | — | D | — | — | A+ |
| Iroquois Point | — | — | D− | — | — | A− |
Ewa Beach, Ocean Pointe and Iroquois Point report no FBI crime data of their own. Ewa Beach, Ocean Pointe and Iroquois Point aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Ewa Beach with a neighbor →
Questions about Ewa Beach
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Ewa Beach, HI a good place to live?
Ewa Beach has no overall grade: it has no figures for safety and schools, and an overall grade needs at least three of the four big subjects (cost of living, safety, schools and health).
Is Ewa Beach, HI expensive?
Yes. That is 7.8 years of the area's median household income ($106,195 across the Urban Honolulu, HI metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.