Puna-Ka'u Historic District · Photo: MPSharwood · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Mauna Loa Estates works elsewhere
3% of workers work from home, next to 10% for Hawaii as a whole. Mauna Loa Estates has 21 jobs for 154 working residents. Hardly any work in Mauna Loa Estates itself; outside it, Urban Honolulu draws the most (27%, 215 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Mauna Loa Estates on a workday afternoon
On a workday 153 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 20 people come in from elsewhere.
About 770 people are in Mauna Loa Estates on a workday afternoon, 15% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Mauna Loa Estates: the destinations
Where Mauna Loa Estates clocks in
4% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mauna Loa Estates, 2014 → 2024: 5 → 21. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mauna Loa Estates’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Mauna Loa Estates: about 30 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mauna Loa Estates workers work from home, vs 10% across Hawaii. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 313 commuters (the 3% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Mauna Loa Estates
About 54% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
How Mauna Loa Estates compares with the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mauna Loa Estates workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mauna Loa Estates | – | — | — | 30 min | $39,427 |
| Volcano | 3% | — | — | 43 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Volcano: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Volcano. Darker towns draw more of Mauna Loa Estates’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 2024, 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 Mauna Loa Estates: questions
What is the median household income in Mauna Loa Estates?
$39,427 (±$17,004) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $100,389 across Hawaii and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mauna Loa Estates?
19.0%, against 10.0% across Hawaii and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mauna Loa Estates?
30 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Hawaii and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mauna Loa Estates work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Urban Honolulu (27%, 215 mi), Hilo (25%, 20 mi), Kahului (4%, 128 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Mauna Loa Estates without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mauna Loa Estates, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mauna Loa Estates
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.