Kalawao County, HI
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 21.20, -156.98.
Assembled 2026-10-07. Read the brief.
- US counties: not published this period
- Hawaii counties: Rank context is unavailable: 4 of Hawaii counties are in the table, fewer than the 5 a rank needs.
- counties in the Kahului-Wailuku metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Kahului-Wailuku metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- US counties: not published this period
- Hawaii counties: Rank context is unavailable: 4 of Hawaii counties are in the table, fewer than the 5 a rank needs.
- counties in the Kahului-Wailuku metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Kahului-Wailuku metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- US counties: not published this period
- Hawaii counties: Rank context is unavailable: 4 of Hawaii counties are in the table, fewer than the 5 a rank needs.
- counties in the Kahului-Wailuku metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Kahului-Wailuku metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- US counties: not published this period
- Hawaii counties: Rank context is unavailable: 4 of Hawaii counties are in the table, fewer than the 5 a rank needs.
- counties in the Kahului-Wailuku metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Kahului-Wailuku metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- US counties: not published this period
- Hawaii counties: Rank context is unavailable: 4 of Hawaii counties are in the table, fewer than the 5 a rank needs.
- counties in the Kahului-Wailuku metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Kahului-Wailuku metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- US counties: not published this period
- Hawaii counties: Rank context is unavailable: 4 of Hawaii counties are in the table, fewer than the 5 a rank needs.
- counties in the Kahului-Wailuku metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Kahului-Wailuku metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
Typical home value divided by the average annual wage of one covered job.
A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.
Home values #
No Zillow home value index for this area
- US counties: not published this period
- Hawaii counties: Rank context is unavailable: 4 of Hawaii counties are in the table, fewer than the 5 a rank needs.
- counties in the Kahului-Wailuku metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Kahului-Wailuku metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), typical value of homes in the 35th to 65th percentile, smoothed and seasonally adjusted; a model estimate of value, not a sale price. Data through Zillow Research.
Rents #
No rent index for this area
- US counties: not published this period
- Hawaii counties: Rank context is unavailable: 4 of Hawaii counties are in the table, fewer than the 5 a rank needs.
- counties in the Kahului-Wailuku metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Kahului-Wailuku metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), smoothed, all homes and multifamily; price-to-rent = typical home / (typical rent × 12).
What the typical home costs to carry #
Estimate. Principal and interest on the typical home with 20% down over 30 years at this week's Freddie Mac average rate; compared with the average weekly wage of all jobs covered by unemployment insurance in the area (BLS QCEW), which is pay per job, not household income.
Jobs & wages #
No QCEW row for this area
- US counties: not published this period
- Hawaii counties: Rank context is unavailable: 4 of Hawaii counties are in the table, fewer than the 5 a rank needs.
- counties in the Kahului-Wailuku metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 2 counties in the Kahului-Wailuku metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, all ownerships, total covered employment in the quarter's third month; over-the-year changes as published. Suppressed cells stay blank.
Drought #
No drought class at this point (USDM covers the United States only)
Sites found: 5, searched within 0 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 0 km away are not.
US Drought Monitor current week; the highest class of any polygon containing the point.
Reservoirs #
No reservoir gauges within 150 km (or the camera is above the gauge altitude)
Sites found: 0, searched within 150 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 150 km away are not.
Σ(capacity × percent full) / Σ capacity over TWDB reservoirs within 150 km. Texas only; elsewhere USGS reservoir elevation/storage is listed without a capacity to normalise by.
Stream gauges #
26 gauges · 0 flooding · 2 with quality panels averaging 75 % · 7 stale
Sites found: 26, searched within 75 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 75 km away are not.
| Site | Reading | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Waihanau Stream nr Kalaupapa, Molokai, HI | flow 0.27 ft³/s | 5 km |
| Waikolu Str blw pipe nr Kalaupapa, Molokai, HI | flow 7.37 ft³/s | 7 km |
| Molokai Tunnel at West Portal, Molokai, HI | flow 6.30 ft³/s · STALE | 9 km |
| Waikolu Str at alt 900 ft nr Kalaupapa, Molokai,HI | flow 0.89 ft³/s · STALE | 9 km |
| Molokai Tunnel at East Portal, Molokai, HI | flow 0.75 ft³/s · STALE | 9 km |
| Kaunakakai Gulch at altitude 75 feet, Molokai, HI | flow 0.00 ft³/s | 12 km |
| EF Kawela Gulch nr Kamalo, Molokai, HI | flow 0.28 ft³/s | 12 km |
| KAWAINUI STREAM NR PELEKUNU, MOLOKAI, HI | flow 1.30 ft³/s · STALE | 13 km |
| Kawela Gulch near Moku, Molokai, HI | flow 0.33 ft³/s · quality 50 % (1) | 14 km |
| Kamalo Gulch near Kamalo, Molokai, HI | stage 5.89 ft | 19 km |
USGS latest readings screened against EPA freshwater criteria (DO ≥ 5 mg/L, pH 6.5–9, conductance, turbidity, temperature); NWS flood categories where a NWPS gauge is co-located.
Groundwater #
No USGS monitoring wells within 75 km (or above 1,500 km)
Sites found: 0, searched within 75 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 75 km away are not.
USGS latest daily water levels. A single latest reading says where the table is, not which way it is moving; select a well for its 365-day trace.
Water stress #
low (0.09)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.00 + 0.2×0.25 / 0.55
Banks & federal dollars #
FDIC publishes no Summary of Deposits rows for this county. $3.4 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $2.2 m, contracts $1.2 m)
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| county 15005, HI | $3.4 m FY2026 | |
| SOUTHERN AIRWAYS EXPRESS LLC | $2.2 m · top recipient FY2026 |
FDIC Summary of Deposits: deposits at every insured office as of June 30, annual; HHI is the sum of squared county deposit shares (DOJ 1995 bank merger screen: 1000 / 1800). USAspending: obligations by place of performance for the latest complete federal fiscal year (Oct 1 to Sep 30), what agencies committed, not what they paid out; recipients are legal entities. Per-job divides obligations by BLS QCEW covered employment.
Federal obligations #
USAspending place-of-performance obligations for FY2026, by awarding agency.
| Awarding agency | Obligations |
|---|---|
| Department of Transportation | $2,181,494 |
| Department of the Interior | $1,151,863 |
| Social Security Administration | $47,359 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $2,148 |
| Department of Agriculture | $0 |
USAspending obligations are recorded where the work is performed, so a prime award performed here is counted here even when the recipient is headquartered elsewhere. Recipients are legal entities, never people.
National context, not this county #
These are United States, single-gauge, single-state and port series. None of them is keyed to this county.
| Series | Latest | As of | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi River at Memphis, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Mississippi River at St. Louis, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Ohio River at Louisville, stage · ft | 11.67 | 2026-10-06 | -8.0% |
| Missouri River at St. Joseph, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases) · ft³/s | 5,170.00 | 2026-02-05 | -25.3% |
| Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full · % | 72.60 | 2026-10-07 | +0.0% |
| Laredo truck crossings, monthly · trucks | 258,700.00 | 2026-08-01 | -0.4% |
| Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual · TEU | 10,513,167.00 | 2023-01-01 | -13.5% |
| Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports · ships | 3.00 | 2026-10-06 | -50.0% |
| Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate · $ per 40 ft box | 7,848.00 | 2026-09-01 | +14.9% |
| US diesel retail price · $ per gallon | unavailable | not published | |
| WTI crude oil, spot · $ per barrel | 96.16 | 2026-09-29 | -3.2% |
| 30-year fixed mortgage rate · % | 7.28 | 2026-10-01 | +3.6% |
| Housing starts, annual rate · thousands of units | 1,275.00 | 2026-08-01 | -2.6% |
| Building permits, annual rate · thousands of units | 1,403.00 | 2026-08-01 | -2.1% |
| Case-Shiller US home price index · index, Jan 2000 = 100 | 337.31 | 2026-07-01 | +0.1% |
| Unemployment rate · % | 4.20 | 2026-09-01 | +2.4% |
| US goods and services trade balance, monthly · $ millions | -105,572.00 | 2026-08-01 | -13.7% |
| Retail sales excluding food services, monthly · $ millions | 646,347.00 | 2026-08-01 | +1.1% |
The indicator registry has no county-keyed series and no geographic selection: every entry is national, a named gauge, a single state or a port. They are here as the backdrop the county's own numbers move against, and they are never this county's readings.
What changed #
Kalawao County, HI: no published figures this run
Nothing crossed a line in this period.
Every finding is produced by a fixed rule table and a fixed sentence for each rule. Nothing here is generated prose.