Waialae-Kahala Eviction Risk: Elevated , Urban Honolulu

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.2/10. 26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Running cool, economic stress reads 1.5/10. On the softer side, court filing pressure reads 1.7/10.

Housing insecurity runs 6.2% against 14.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

On the national scale it lands near the 79th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 50% of renters. It tracks the Honolulu County average of 6.0 closely.

Annual rent works out to 30% of average household income of $112,163.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.