Hawaiʻi needs a $49.38-an-hour wage to afford a fair-market two-bedroom home, loses 81 hours a year to Honolulu traffic at America's 3rd-worst peak index, pays the nation's highest electricity price, and counts one in three households food insecure.
How to read this page: the class chip on every measure is the honesty label. Counted = an inspection or enumeration record. Modeled = a study's projection or risk score — printed with the modeler's name. Assessed = a structured survey of required investment — needs as documented, not measurements of decay. Figures keep the form their source gave them; years are printed on every measure.
Click any category to expand it — every measure with its figure, what it means in plain language, and its source.
Every measure carries its value, class, geography, year, definition, context and source. Hawaiʻi's profile is extremes with an island logic: America's 3rd-worst peak travel-time index and its highest electricity price sit in the same state as one of its smallest broadband gaps — because everything here is shaped by one-corridor roads, imported fuel and compact coastal settlement.
Three honesty notes are printed rather than smoothed over. Food: the printed instrument is the Hawaiʻi Foodbank household survey (32% of households), not Feeding America's Map the Meal Gap model — MMG covers Hawaiʻi's counties, but no verified MMG rate was fetched in printable form, so the substitution is disclosed in the category rather than blended. Hospitals: only CHQPR's screen is printed for Hawaiʻi's neighbor-island fleet; the national Chartis-style second screen could not be verified for this state, and that limitation is stated in the category's fine print. Broadband: Hawaiʻi has had two BEAD counts — about 11,671 unserved locations in the initial accounting and about 7,000 eligible locations in the approved 2025 Final Proposal — and both are printed so the reduction is visible.
Traffic is printed by metro and table: Honolulu from TTI's main medium-area table (81 hours, TTI 1.51, 2024) and Kahului from the smaller-area tables — never averaged into an invented statewide number. Dams carries the same discipline: the high-hazard count is current (118, ASCE 2024) while the poor-condition share is ASCE's 2019 report card, printed with its vintage because no fresher verified count exists. Power is all-EIA; the LBNL interconnection queue publishes no Hawaiʻi breakout — its island grids sit outside mainland queue reporting — and that gap is named in the category rather than estimated.