Mililani Town, Hawaii

Area Profile

27,668 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Mililani Town, in Honolulu County.

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How we calculate this

How this area ranks
SchoolsTop 9% of 2,668 cities measured84
Housing affordability3626th of 4,223 cities measured55
ClimateTop 8% of 4,223 cities measured89
Physical resilience3541st of 4,182 cities measured21
AccessTop 41% of 4,226 cities measured94
Economic stabilityTop 19% of 4,226 cities measured74
The quick read

Buying strains local incomes far more than renting does — the median home is 7.3 times median household income, against a historic benchmark near three — while rent takes 22% of it.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by inland flooding, earthquake and tsunami.

A major airport is 10 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
27,668
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$127,363
Top 9% nationally
Density
6,901/sq mi
4.0 sq mi of land
Median age
45.5
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Honolulu County
Hawaii
Metro area
Urban Honolulu, HI
Nearest major airport
JRF
10 mi · Kalaeloa (John Rodgers Fld)
Median home value
$923,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

44% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 84% of measured US cities.

Household income is higher than at least 91% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$9,796$127,363Top 9%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,881$52,408Top 15%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate3.2%Bottom 16%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute32.5 minTop 24%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher43.8%Top 16%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Labor force participation62.2%Top 45%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$71,940Top 37%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median annual wage$57,220Top 28%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024127k108k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $127,363 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Urban Honolulu, HI
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers17,240$35,080
Retail Salespersons12,810$37,400
Registered Nurses9,680$139,260
General and Operations Managers9,430$113,940
Office Clerks, General8,820$41,600
Waiters and Waitresses8,550$60,250

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

48% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 67% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 15.3 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
7
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.3
across all schools here
Math proficiency
48.4%
Top 15% in Hawaii
Reading proficiency
66.7%
Top 1% in Hawaii
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Mililani High SchoolHawaii Department of Education2,38216.5
Mililani Middle SchoolHawaii Department of Education1,63516.235%72%
Mililani Uka Elementary SchoolHawaii Department of Education65814.645%54%
Mililani Waena Elementary SchoolHawaii Department of Education64213.153%64%
Mililani Mauka Elementary SchoolHawaii Department of Education62314.570%70%
Kipapa Elementary SchoolHawaii Department of Education47313.139%52%
Mililani Ike Elementary SchoolHawaii Department of Education40914.176%83%

21.4% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Hawaii’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Prices for everything a household buys run about 11% above the national average, on the Bureau of Economic Analysis index. Housing drives most of that difference.

Median rent of $2,384 takes 22% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 7.3 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Cost of living
111.4

Prices here run about 11% above the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Rent as a share of income
22.5%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
7.3×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,384
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$923,900
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living index111.4Top 19%of 3,6582023
Home price to income7.25Top 5%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate81.2%Top 39%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4219,880Top 6%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$168$2,384Top 4%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$22,741$923,900Top 3%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income22.5%Top 27%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate1.9%Bottom 15%of 32,0012024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

9 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 88°F and January a low of 65°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 13.9 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 31, in the Good band, and no day in the year passed 100.

50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station EWA KALAELOA AP, 9.6 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND2.3"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index41.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation13.9"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low65°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high88°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months91991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index31.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing8°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
31
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
41
90th percentile index
Days above 100
0
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

21 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, earthquake and tsunami.

Inland floodingHigh
WildfireElevated
EarthquakeModerate
TsunamiHigh

Low or minimal exposure: lightning, landslide, coastal flooding, hurricane, ice storm, tornado, drought, hail, strong wind.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Honolulu County records 2.0 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 3.6 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 18.4 per 100,000 residents in Honolulu County.

Homicide
2.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
3.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
18.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
11.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Honolulu County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around Mililani Town rather than Mililani Town itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes
Taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Cost of living now is — the index above is the Bureau of Economic Analysis price parity for this area — but it is a price level for all consumption rather than a budget for a household, its spread is driven mostly by housing, and it excludes taxes. Housing affordability is computed separately from rent, price and income, because that answers a narrower and more actionable question. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 10 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Kalaeloa (John Rodgers Fld)JRF10 mi8,365 ft
Daniel K Inouye IntlHNL11 mi12,360 ft
Hilo IntlITO226 mi9,803 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in Urban Honolulu, HI

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
Urban HonoluluHonolulu County345,482vs Mililani Town
East HonoluluHonolulu County51,360vs Mililani Town
Pearl CityHonolulu County44,547vs Mililani Town
WaipahuHonolulu County40,482vs Mililani Town
KailuaHonolulu County39,640vs Mililani Town
KaneoheHonolulu County37,355vs Mililani Town
Ewa GentryHonolulu County26,563vs Mililani Town
KapoleiHonolulu County22,232vs Mililani Town
Mililani MaukaHonolulu County21,278vs Mililani Town
MakakiloHonolulu County20,735vs Mililani Town
WahiawaHonolulu County17,996vs Mililani Town
Ocean PointeHonolulu County17,085vs Mililani Town

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023Annually, each December
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in Mililani Town

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
9678954,278$127,066