Halaula has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Getting around Halaula on foot earns D−. Halaula has 11 jobs for 69 working residents. Hardly any work in Halaula; the top destination outside it is Waikoloa Beach Resort (19%, 21 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Halaula on a workday afternoon
On a workday 69 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 11 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Out of Halaula to work: where people go
Where Halaula clocks in
Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Halaula works in goods: 36% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Halaula, 2013 → 2023: 36 → 11. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Halaula’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Halaula: about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Halaula workers work from home, vs 10% across Hawaii. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 323 commuters (the 9% who work from home are left out). Across Hawaii: 72% drive alone, 4% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Where in the region Halaula works
About 35% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Halaula is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Halaula is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Halaula near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 356 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Halaula households have no vehicle (Hawaii 8.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Halaula’s commuters take a bus or train.
The towns around Halaula
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Halaula’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Halaula: questions
What is the poverty rate in Halaula?
14.7%, against 10.0% across Hawaii and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Halaula?
34 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Hawaii and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Halaula work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Waikoloa Beach Resort (19%, 21 mi), Urban Honolulu (16%, 154 mi), Kailua (10%, 42 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Halaula walkable?
Halaula is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Halaula without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Halaula, from the people who make the trip.
More of Halaula
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.