Keokea has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
234 jobs are based in Keokea; 1,058 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Keokea is better than 34% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (C). Measured by household income, Keokea is ahead of 86% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Keokea in brief
Keokea’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Keokea is Urban Honolulu, 105 miles away as the crow flies. 21% of working residents (224) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Keokea workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 39 minutes each way, against 26 across Hawaii. Over a year that’s about 299 hours of commuting, 100 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Keokea is a place people come home to
There are 234 jobs based in Keokea, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Keokea has about 2,100 people in it, 28% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
41% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
How Keokea earns its Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Keokea’s grade up ($114,250, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 9% of U.S. towns).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Keokea could be anywhere from C− to B.
How many miles Keokea commutes
About 41% 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.
Commuting from Keokea: about 39 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Keokea workers work from home, vs 10% across Hawaii. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,110 commuters (the 8% 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.
How a workday changes Keokea
On a workday 1,047 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 223 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,100 people are in Keokea on a workday afternoon, 28% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
21% of working residents work in Urban Honolulu
Where Keokea clocks in
15% of workersLines 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.
In Keokea, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Keokea, 2013 → 2023: 80 → 234. 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 Keokea’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute in Keokea is mostly behind the wheel
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.0% across Hawaii, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,211 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). 3.7% of Keokea households have no vehicle (Hawaii 8.2%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Keokea’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,119th of 4,882: where Keokea ranks among U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 82 | Maunawili HI | 2,024 | $177K | 1.6% | 1.6% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 466 | Wheeler AFB HI | 2,097 | $92K | 1.3% | 4.9% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 536 | Waikapu HI | 3,591 | $123K | 4.8% | 1.8% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,117 | De Soto Township IL | 2,276 | $71K | 12.0% | 5.7% | 3% | C |
| 3,118 | Franklin Township OH | 2,624 | $62K | 7.1% | 5.7% | 3% | C |
| 3,119 | Keokea HI | 2,892 | $114K | 10.7% | 7.1% | 1% | C |
| 3,120 | Vassar Township MI | 3,871 | $63K | 11.6% | 3.8% | 2% | C |
| 3,121 | White Creek NY | 3,274 | $73K | 8.3% | 4.5% | 13% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,882 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Keokea, the top three, the last and three more from Hawaii.
Around Keokea: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Kula (7%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Keokea’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 Keokea: questions
What is the median household income in Keokea?
$114,250 (±$20,052) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $100,389 across Hawaii and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Keokea?
10.7%, against 10.0% across Hawaii and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Keokea?
39 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Hawaii and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Keokea work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Urban Honolulu (21%, 104 mi), Kahului (15%, 12 mi), Wailuku (14%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Keokea walkable?
Keokea is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Keokea without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Keokea, from the people who make the trip.
More of Keokea
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.