MaunawiliHI
A town of 2,024.
Is Maunawili a good place to live?
Maunawili’s best subject grades are an A+ for incomes and health; its weakest is a D for cost of living. Maunawili has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Maunawili stand out
Where Maunawili beats most towns.
100% of working residents leave Maunawili for work
Where Maunawili’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Maunawili grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Hawaii), ordered by how far Maunawili is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
USS Missouri and 46 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Maunawili. Close and well known come first.
Big draw12 mi MuseumUSS Missouri
12 mi MuseumUSS Arizona Memorial
10 mi Stadium & arenaAloha Stadium
8 mi MountainDiamond Head
7 mi BeachWaikīkī
6 mi LandmarkNational Memorial Cemetery of the PacificPhoto 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 · National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific: Cleared as filed at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Moving to Maunawili: who provides what
Maunawili 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 Maunawili.
Maunawili stands out in Hawaii and nationally: a smaller share of its adults report frequent mental distress
Among adults in Maunawili, 13% say their health is fair or poor. Maunawili: 28% of adults feel lonely, below both the Hawaii town median (32%) and the median of U.S. towns (33%). Of the 94 Hawaii towns we compare, none has a lower share of adults 18 to 64 who have no health insurance than Maunawili.
| Maunawili | Hawaii towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 16% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 6.2% | 12% | 14% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 32% | 33% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 83% | 76% | 79% |
| What stands out | Maunawili | HI |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 3.3% | 8.5% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 8.3% | 17.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.8% | 6.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity Christian School PrivateLargest high schoolGrades PK–11 | Grades PK–11 | 224 | – |
NCES · EDFacts
Compared with most of Hawaii and the rest of the country, the median household income in Maunawili is higher
The top destinations are Urban Honolulu (65%), Kailua (11%) and Kaneohe (4%). Of the 94 Hawaii towns we compare, none has a lower share of residents below the poverty line than Maunawili. Maunawili: 16% of workers do their job from home, against 8.1% in Hawaii’s towns and 11% across U.S. towns. In Maunawili, 0.5% of working residents work locally.
| Maunawili | Hawaii towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $177,000 | $100,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 1.6% | 9.7% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 16% | 8.1% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.5% | 3.7% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The climate in Maunawili brings mild winters and pleasant summers
July afternoons reach 79°, January nights drop to 63° and snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The biggest natural risk in Maunawili is inland flooding, at a high overall level
Of the losses FEMA expects in Maunawili, 55% come from inland flooding and 20% from earthquakes. Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 60% of U.S. communities. 3 flood insurance claims have been paid in the town since 1980.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Maunawili has set aside 3.3% of its land for conservation
1.3 miles of trail. For Maunawili, the concentration of trails is 0.7 miles per square mile.
| Maunawili | Hawaii towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 3.3% | 12% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.7 miles per square mile | 0.6 | 0.4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Homes in Maunawili sell for about $1.74M
Maunawili’s going rate for rent stands at $3,501 a month. Among 94 Hawaii towns, just 2 have a higher home-ownership rate than Maunawili.
| Maunawili | Hawaii towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $3,501 a month | $2,015 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 91% | 71% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Maunawili
Colleges nearby
9 within 15 miles of the center of Maunawili
About 4 of every 100 Maunawili residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Hawaii.
Maunawili’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Maunawili.
Maunawili has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Maunawili and Kailua report no FBI crime data of their own. Kailua isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Maunawili with a neighbor →
Questions about Maunawili
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Maunawili, HI expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $1,511,000, 81% 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 D.