Photo: Erica Fischer · CC BY 2.0Policing Wailua Homesteads: who reports, and what
Wailua Homesteads has no police department of its own: it’s an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) in Kauai County. The Kauai Police Department reports to the FBI for the parts of the county without police of their own, so there are no figures for Wailua Homesteads alone, and no Safety Grade. Urban Honolulu, 111 miles away, is the nearest town with a Safety Grade (C+).
What stands out about safety in Wailua Homesteads
Policed by the county
Wailua Homesteads is a census-designated place, with no town government. Crimes there are reported to the FBI inside the Kauai Police Department’s totals for the county. County police ↓
Counts, not rates
The FBI doesn’t publish how many people the Kauai Police Department covers, so its totals can’t be turned into a per-resident rate or a grade for Wailua Homesteads. County police ↓
The nearest graded towns
The closest Hawaii towns with their own police figures are Urban Honolulu (C+, 111 mi). Nearby towns can differ a lot from Wailua Homesteads. Nearest ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What the Kauai Police Department reports
Reports to the FBI for the parts of Kauai County without police of their own, which include Wailua Homesteads.
Property crimes
Violent crimes
2025 offenses reported by the Kauai Police Department
Counts, not rates: the FBI doesn’t publish how many people each agency covers. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, Tables 10–11.
Crimes reported to the FBI for the whole area the department covers, by year.
The nearest Hawaii towns with a Safety Grade
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Honolulu | C+ | 111 mi | 1.8 | 17.1 |
Straight-line distance from the center of Wailua Homesteads. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Wailua Homesteads.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
One person died in crashes on Wailua Homesteads’s roads in 2019–2023
Wailua Homesteads had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died.
That is about what is typical for Hawaii towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (5.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Wailua Homesteads’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Wailua Homesteads’s own rate (3.7) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Wailua Homesteads and its neighbors
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Kapaa and Wailua are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- A county agency covers a wide area. Its totals mix many communities, so they say little about any one of them.
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Wailua Homesteads
Is Wailua Homesteads, HI safe?
There is no Safety Grade for Wailua Homesteads. The nearest Hawaii towns with a grade are Urban Honolulu (C+, 111 mi).
Who polices Wailua Homesteads?
The Kauai Police Department. Wailua Homesteads is an unincorporated community, and the department reports to the FBI for the parts of Kauai County without police of their own.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.