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The Information Resources Program collects, maintains and disseminates statistical, reference, and program information to County and State agencies, and to the general public via this website.

Hawaiʻi County Unemployment Rate

Source, State of Hawaiʻi Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism

U.S. Census Data

Hawaiʻi County Profile - U.S. Census
Community Profiles - U.S. Census, Census Designated Places in Hawaiʻi County
Small Area Data: Links to U.S. Census American Community Survey data for sub-county geographical areas, provided by the State of Hawaiʻi Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.
Decennial Census Population 1960-2020 - The population of the State of Hawaii increased from 632,772 in 1960 to 1,455,271 in 2020, reflecting a growth rate of 7% between 2010 and 2020. Hawaii County experienced significant growth, with its population increasing from 61,332 in 1960 to 200,629 in 2020. It also had the highest percentage growth (45%) between 1970 and 1980.
Hawaiʻi's Census Geography - A guide to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2020 Census Boundaries, provided by the State of Hawaiʻi Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.
2020 Hawaiʻi Census Tracts: Interactive GIS Map of U.S. Census Tracts in Hawaiʻi County, provided by the State of Hawaiʻi Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.

State of Hawaiʻi Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism Data

State of Hawaiʻi Office of Hawaiian Affairs

Office of Hawaiian Affairs Native Hawaiian Databook

Agriculture and Food Systems

Department of Agriculture, State

Transforming Hawaiʻi’s Food Systems Together. The Transforming Hawaiʻi’s Food Systems Together initiative has conducted a series of applied research projects that will inform policy and planning recommendations and build statewide capacity to achieve a more economically robust, sustainable, equitable and resilient food system for Hawaiʻi. The key findings of these Knowledge Products will inform the development of an Integrated State Food Policy Framework and Food System Resiliency and Equity Strategy for Hawaiʻi.

Department of Agriculture, U.S.

The Census of Agriculture is a complete count of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them. Even small plots of land - whether rural or urban - count if $1,000 or more of such products were raised and sold, or normally would have been sold, during the census year. The Census of Agriculture, taken only once every five years, looks at land use and ownership, operator characteristics, production practices, income and expenditures.

Business Statistics

The Census Business Builder (CBB) is a suite of services that provide selected demographic and economic data from the Census Bureau tailored to specific types of users in a simple to access and use format.

2025 Small Business Profiles for the Nation, States, and Territories, U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy. 2025 State Profiles provide state level overviews of business dynamics, small business loans, industry breakdowns, business ownership demographics, and small business exports. The profiles also present data about small business openings and closings and employment changes across the country.

Data Dashboards, Hawaiʻi Department of Taxation Business Income Tax Statistics

Kauffman Indicators of Entrepreneurial Activity, The Kauffman Indicators of Entrepreneurship offers in-depth measures, reports, and accompanying interactive data visualizations that present entrepreneurial trends in the United States

U.S. Small Business Administration Open Data Portal

Economic Forecasts and Analysis

STATE SOURCES

Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT)

INDUSTRY MEASURES

CYBERSTATES 2025 by CompTIA; national, state, and metropolitan area tech sector and tech workforce analytics.

Energy, Transportation and Infrastructure

Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism

Monthly Energy Trends - This monthly report contains data on crude oil prices, average monthly gasoline and diesel prices, barrels of oil imported from foreign countries, fuel consumption, vehicle registration, electricity generation, and data on renewable energy used in electricity generation. Data are presented by island with state total.

U.S. Department of Energy Alternative Fuels Data Center

Hawaiʻi Transportation Data for Alternative Fuels and Vehicles- Find transportation data and information about alternative fuels and advanced vehicles in Hawaii, including laws and incentives, fueling stations, fuel prices, and more.

Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation

Education

Employment

Environmental Data and Indicators

Aloha + Challenge

The Aloha + Challenge Dashboard tracks Hawaii’s progress on achieving its Aloha+ Challenge sustainability targets. The Aloha+ Challenge is a statewide commitment to achieve six interconnected sustainability targets by 2030 in: Clean Energy, Local Food Production, Natural Resource Management, Solid Waste Reduction, Smart Sustainable Communities, and Green Workforce and Education.

Hawaiʻi Climate Data Portal

The Hawaiʻi Climate Data Portal provides easy access to high-quality climate data, information and products allowing researchers to focus more time on their analyses and less time on data collection and processing. It also provides the broader community with access to information that would otherwise be inaccessible due to technical limitations. Finally, centralizing data and information helps to create a more holistic environment for environmental stewardship in Hawai‘i.

Ocean Health Index for Hawaiʻi

The Hawai‘i Ocean Health Index measures and tracks the benefits and services that the ocean provides for people now and into the future. This index was developed with the support of local stakeholders to better understand how to sustainably balance current and future ocean use.

Ocean health is defined as a state of being that is pono (sustainable/respectful); where functions and processes can exist, perpetuate, and evolve, including the presence and role of humans.

Hazard Risks

The National Risk Index by FEMA

The National Risk Index (The Index) is an online tool to help illustrate the nation’s communities most at risk of natural hazards. It is made possible through a collaboration between FEMA and dozens of partners in academia; local, state and federal government; and private industry.

The Index leverages best available source data to provide a holistic view of community-level risk nationwide by combining multiple hazards with socioeconomic and built environment factors. It calculates a baseline relative risk measurement for each United States county and census tract for 18 natural hazards, based on Expected Annual Loss, Social Vulnerability, and Community Resilience.

Health and Social Resilience Indicators

Department of Health (DOH)

Department of Human Services (DHS)

Department of Human Services 2024 Annual Data Book (DHS) - Data related to social services such as SNAP, TANF, homeless services, child protective services, and homelessness.
Annual Statistical Report on Child Abuse and Neglect in Hawaiʻi

Access to Care

Access to Care Survey July 2022 Report, Community First Hawaiʻi

Every three years, Access to Care conducts a community health needs assessment. This assessment has allowed us to gather information and survey data about the current state of healthcare in Hawaiʻi from healthcare providers, social service professionals, residents, and policymakers, and ensures that those who are historically underrepresented in this kind of research are heard. Findings contribute to a better understanding of the healthcare delivery system in communities across Hawai‘i, and are being used to inform statewide healthcare policies.

County Health Rankings & Roadmaps

2025 County Health Rankings

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has published annual rankings since 2011. The index ranks counties by health outcomes, and also by health factors that include clinical care, social and economic factors, and the physical environment.

Community Commons

Maps and Data

HRSA Area Health Resources Files

Explore Workforce Data

Use this tool to:

View clinician data by Area Health Resource File year, profession, population, and location
Analyze specific subsets of the data by filtering various health profession and population demographic subcategories
View demographic data from the latest Area Health Resources File by profession by state

Opportunity Atlas

Census researchers collaborated with economics from Harvard and Brown Universities to develop the Opportunity Atlas data tool. The data tool uses Census Tract-level data of childrenʻs outcomes in adulthood to trace the roots of outcomes such as poverty and incarceration to the neighborhoods in which children grew up.

Social Vulnerability Index

CDCʻs Social Vulnerability Index (SVI)

The U.S. Center for Disease Control publishes an index that measures the resilience of communities when confronted by external stresses on human health, stresses such as natural or human-caused disasters, or disease outbreaks. Reducing social vulnerability can decrease both human suffering and economic loss.

Opportunity Index

The Opportunity Index is an interactive data tool that provides a composite of four distinct dimensions of opportunity – economy, education, health, and community – at the national, state, and county levels. It provides a snapshot of societal conditions that can be used to identify and improve access to opportunity, and presents these indicators at the county, state, and national levels.

Since 2011, the Opportunity Index shows how scores have changed over time and what access to opportunity looks like today. The Index provides Opportunity Scores for all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and 2,068 counties, which together represent 96 percent of the US population.

Housing and Cost of Living Studies - Including ALICE Data

Housing

Hawaiʻi Housing Factbook

The Hawaiʻi Housing Factbook 2025. University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization (UHERO)

UHERO Housing Policy Group

The UHERO Housing Policy Group provides rigorous analyses to inform debates regarding housing in Hawaiʻi, with a focus on the high housing cost burdens experienced by the State’s residents.

Cost of Living

ALICE in Hawaiʻi (ALICE - Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed)

Self-Sufficiency Income Standard for Hawaiʻi

The Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism publishes a biennial update to a self-sufficiency standard as directed by Hawaiʻi Revised Statutes, 201-3(b)(5). The study establishes Hawaiʻiʻs self-sufficient family income standards for the reporting year and compares self-sufficient family budgets with poverty thresholds, minimum wage level, median family income, and estimates for actual incomes for the five family types.

MIT Living Wage Calculator

Living Wage Calculation for Hawaiʻi County, Hawaiʻi

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) created this living wage calculator to estimate the cost of living in based on typical expenses. The tool helps individuals, communities, and employers determine a local wage rate that allows residents to meet minimum standards of living.

Housing and Transportation Index

H+T Index

The Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) host this data portal to provide a comprehensive view of affordability that includes both the cost of housing and the cost of transportation at the neighborhood level. Data is available at Census Tract levels.

Family Budget Calculator

Economic Policy Institute Family Budget Calculator - measures the income a family needs in order to attain a modest yet adequate standard of living. The budgets estimate community-specific costs for 10 family types (one or two adults with zero to four children) in all counties and metro areas in the United States. Compared with the federal poverty line and the Supplemental Poverty Measure, EPI’s family budgets provide a more accurate and complete measure of economic security in America.

Poverty Guidelines

Annual Federal Poverty Guidelines

The U.S. Department of Human Services publishes annual poverty guidelines for the 48 contiguous states and separate guidelines for Hawaii and Alaska. See this page for an explanation of the difference between poverty thresholds and poverty guidelines.

Government

Hawaiʻi Legislative Reference Bureau

Guide to Hawaiʻi Government - Use the directory to find department and agency contact information, including office, title, phone & fax numbers, and mail / email addresses. Use the guide to view a description of the department or agency and learn more about its organization.
State Constitution

Aloha United Way 211 Requests Dashboard

Hawaii County, HI Research & Development