HalawaHI
A town of 14,385.
Is Halawa a good place to live?
The best of Halawa’s subject grades are an A for walkability and incomes and an A− for the outdoors; the weakest is a C− for cost of living. 17% of the land in Halawa is conserved, against 12% in Hawaii’s towns and 4.3% across U.S. towns. Halawa has 4 places on the National Register. The biggest park or preserve is Halawa District Park, at 20 acres. Halawa 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 Halawa stand out
Where Halawa beats most towns.
How Halawa grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Hawaii), ordered by how far Halawa is from typical.
Halawa 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 Halawa. Close and well known come first.
Big draw2 mi MuseumUSS Missouri
in town Stadium & arenaAloha Stadium
2 mi MuseumUSS Arizona Memorial
9 mi BeachWaikīkī
11 mi MountainDiamond Head
in town MuseumUSS BowfinPhoto credits
USS Missouri: Camera Operator: EM2 KENNETH D. MEHL (Released to Public), Public domain · Aloha Stadium: This photo was taken and originally uploaded by Bobak to English Wikipedia. Uplo, CC BY 3.0 · USS Arizona Memorial: DoD photo by: PH3(AW/SW) JAYME PASTORIC, USN, Public domain · Waikīkī: Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Diamond Head: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 · USS Bowfin: Max Smith, Public domain
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Moving to Halawa: who provides what
Halawa 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 Halawa.
Halawa faces a high natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Only 5 of the 93 Hawaii towns we compare have a lower risk rating from FEMA than Halawa. Expected losses in Halawa break down as 69% from inland flooding and 26% from earthquakes.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The schools Halawa’s kids attend
The Hawaii Department of Education school district runs its public schools. One of its 3 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed. The 3 public schools in Halawa teach 1,171 students between them.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aiea Intermediate SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 7–8 | Grades 7–8 | 470 | B+ |
NCES · EDFacts
Halawa ranks healthier than 68% of the country’s towns
Halawa: nearly four in five adults had a checkup this year. Against the Hawaii average, Halawa comes out ahead on 2 CDC measures out of 32, and behind on 3. 14% of adults locally have been diagnosed with depression; 25% have obesity. Only 8 of the 93 Hawaii towns we compare have a lower share of adults who binge drink than Halawa.
| Halawa | Hawaii towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 48% | 45% | 36% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 17% | 23% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 27% | 35% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 19% | 16% |
| What stands out | Halawa | HI |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer binge drinkers | 15.4% | 17.4% |
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 6% | 6.7% |
| More adults who get no exercise | 26.6% | 23% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Open space protected for good: 16.7% of Halawa
In 4 parks and preserves, walkers have 1.1 miles of trail. Halawa’s density of trails is 0.5 miles per square mile, where Hawaii’s towns sit at 0.6 and U.S. towns at 0.4.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Halawa District Park | — | 20 |
| 2. Aliamanu Neighboorhood Park | — | 4 |
| 3. Oahu Veterans Center Park | — | 3 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
More than half of Halawa’s working residents commute to Urban Honolulu
In Halawa, 5% of workers do their job from home. For most workers, Halawa is a place to come home to: only 3% work in town. The town’s income of the median household is $110,000. Since 2013, Halawa has added 1,344 jobs, to 3,929 in 2023.
| Halawa | Hawaii towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 5% | 8.2% | 11% |
| Median household income | $110,000 | $100,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 24 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.7% | 3.7% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Halawa skews older than Hawaii
For residents in Halawa, the share who are under 18 is 18%. People 65 and older are a quarter of residents (20% statewide). The town’s age of the median resident comes in at 45.7 years. The bachelor’s-degree share among adults 25 and older is 31%, against 36% across Hawaii.
| Halawa | Hawaii towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aged 65 or older | 25% | 20% | 18% |
| Under 18 | 18% | 22% | 22% |
| Median age | 45.7 years | 41.2 years | 40.5 years |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women (the survey’s margin: ±2 points). Across Hawaii, 49.8% of residents are women.
| Halawa | HI | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 10% | 11.3% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 7.6% | 9.4% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 7.5% | 8.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 14.5% | 13.3% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 9.7% | 13.3% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 13.5% | 11.8% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 12.3% | 12.4% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 12.3% | 11.4% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 12.5% | 9% | 7% |
| No diploma | 8.2% | 6.8% | 10.4% |
| High school | 31.1% | 26.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 19.6% | 19.6% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 9.8% | 10.9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 21% | 22.8% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 10.3% | 13.3% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
The median home in Halawa sells for about $1.16M
In Halawa, the typical rent is $1,739 a month. Among households in the town, 67% are owner-occupiers. A home in Halawa typically sold within 147 days of listing.
| Halawa | Hawaii towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,739 a month | $2,017 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 67% | 71% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Halawa
Colleges nearby
12 within 15 miles of the center of Halawa
About 7 of every 100 Halawa residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Hawaii.
About Halawa
Census-designated place in Hawaii, United States
Hālawa (Hawaiian pronunciation: [haːˈlɐvə] , lit. 'curve') is a census-designated place (CDP) in the ‘Ewa District of Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States. Hālawa Stream branches into two valleys: North and South Hālawa; North Hālawa is the larger stream and fluvial feature. Their confluence is within the H-3/H-201 highways exchange. Most of Hālawa Valley is undeveloped. As of the 2020 census, the CDP had a population of 15,016. Camp H. M. Smith, the headquarters of the United States Indo-Pacific Command, is located here. The Hālawa (Aloha Stadium) Skyline station is located at the base of the valley.
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- Area
- 2.4 sq mi
- Elevation
- 177 ft
- Area code
- 808
Halawa’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Halawa.
| Town | HI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halawa | — | — | C− | — | — | B+ |
| Aiea | — | — | C− | — | — | A− |
| Urban Honolulu | #1 | C+ | C− | C+ | — | A− |
Halawa and Aiea report no FBI crime data of their own. Halawa and Aiea aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Halawa with a neighbor →
Questions about Halawa
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Halawa, HI a good place to live?
Halawa 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 Halawa, HI expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $1,052,000, 26% above the Hawaii typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.