Mokuleia has higher household incomes than 66% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Mokuleia C; getting around on foot earns it C+. Poverty touches 15.0% of residents, where Hawaii as a whole has 10.0%. For 20% of workers, the job is at home, where Hawaii as a whole has 10%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Mokuleia’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Mokuleia is better than 34% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Mokuleia’s grade up ($88,750, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 22% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.5%) is left out: Mokuleia’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Mokuleia could be anywhere from D to A−.
A workday in Mokuleia: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 123 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 100 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.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.81 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
24% of working residents work in Urban Honolulu
Where Mokuleia clocks in
5% of workers
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.
Inside Mokuleia’s 100 jobs
100 jobs are based in Mokuleia.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mokuleia, 2013 → 2023: 88 → 100. 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 Mokuleia’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 36 minutes each way for Mokuleia’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mokuleia workers work from home, vs 10% across Hawaii. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 763 commuters (the 20% 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.
Half of Mokuleia commutes less than 27 miles
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.
Few in Mokuleia walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mokuleia is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 954 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 3.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 79% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.8% of Mokuleia households have no vehicle (Hawaii 8.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Mokuleia’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Mokuleia is 2,967th among 5,381 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 77 | Maunawili HI | 2,024 | $177K | 1.6% | 1.6% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 342 | Wheeler AFB HI | 2,097 | $92K | 1.3% | 4.9% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 354 | Ko Olina HI | 1,670 | $133K | 6.8% | 0.8% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,965 | Ripley Township IN | 2,064 | $66K | 10.6% | 2.6% | 2% | C |
| 2,966 | Bokeelia FL | 1,930 | $71K | 7.5% | 5.7% | 6% | C |
| 2,967 | Mokuleia HI | 1,655 | $89K | 15.0% | 2.5% | 0% | C |
| 2,968 | Algodones NM | 1,479 | $68K | 18.1% | 7.2% | 5% | C |
| 2,969 | Rogersville AL | 1,434 | $66K | 9.4% | 1.4% | 8% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,381 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Mokuleia, the top three, the last and three more from Hawaii.
Next door to Mokuleia
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Mokuleia’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 Mokuleia: questions
What is the median household income in Mokuleia?
$88,750 (±$27,994) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $100,389 across Hawaii and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mokuleia?
15.0%, against 10.0% across Hawaii and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mokuleia?
36 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Hawaii and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mokuleia work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Urban Honolulu (24%, 27 mi), Kailua (5%, 31 mi), Haleiwa (4%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mokuleia walkable?
Mokuleia is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 3.3 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mokuleia without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mokuleia, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mokuleia
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.