#maui statistics

The 2020 edition of the Maui County Data Book, which contains 200 pages of comprehensive statistics about Maui, Molokaʻi and Lānaʻi, is now available in book form and online. 

The Hawai’i Small Business Development Center announced the release of the 2019 edition of the annual “Maui County Data Book,” providing comprehensive statistical information on Maui County. The statistical reference book is available in online and book form. 

The Data Book covers statistical information in areas such as population, education, environment, economics, energy, business enterprises, government, tourism and transportation.

MPD responded to 13 burglaries, 9 vehicle thefts and 23 vehicle break-ins in Maui County over a seven day period from April 2-8, 2017.

Visitor arrivals to Maui in May increased by 3.5% to 212,935 and visitor days increased 2.9% to 1,583,603 this year compared to last May.

Phone calls can be a dangerous distraction, even with a Bluetooth device, so I’m wondering if teenagers are allowed to use hands-free devices while driving?

The state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism has released data and analysis on spending patterns of Maui households in 2014.

Visitor arrivals increased (+4.5%) and visitor days increased 1.1% for Maui in April 2016, but visitor expenditures declined 2.8% compared to last year.

The April 2016 unemployment rate for Maui County decreased .2% from March 2016—down from 3.4% to 3.2%, and down from last year’s April figure of 3.9%.

Maui County’s economy experienced gains in jobs, visitor arrivals, visitor days and single-family unit resales and decreases in unemployment, private building permits and authorizations, and condominium unit resales.

Maui visitor arrivals (+1%) and visitor expenditures (+4.3%) both increased this March compared to March 2015. More visitors stayed exclusively on Maui (+8.1%) compared to March 2015, topping the list other Hawaiian Islands for exclusive stays in March 2016.

Last year, Maui and set a new record for annual visitor arrivals, which increased 1.5% to 230,868; visitor expenditures on Maui also grew, increasing 4.9% to $436.8 million, bolstered by higher daily spending which increased by 3.7% to $210 per person.

November arrivals to Maui increased 2.8% to 193,355 and visitor days increased by 3.8% in November 2015 compared to last year. Maui also saw a 7.5% increase in exclusive stay to the island in November. Visitors to Maui spent $320.4 million, a +5.2% increase over last November, bolstered by higher daily spending (+1.3% to $198 per person). Growth in arrivals from US West (+3.6%) and US East (+3.8%) offset declines from Japan (-7.9%) and Canada (-3.7%).

Maui County’s unemployment rate of 4.4 % (not seasonally adjusted) saw a slight increase over last month’s rate of 3.9%, but is still well below the June 2014 rate of 5.1%, according to the Hawai‘i State Department of Labor & Industrial Relations

Maui County ranked a bit higher than the state unemployment average at 4.1%, with individual Maui County Islands weighing in at a wide range of rates. Molokaʻi was at the top of the county’s unemployment rate at 7.7%. Maui Island was next highest at 4.1%, followed by Lānaʻi at 3.8%.

Which island is the “whitest,” which is the most “native,” and who comprises our most slender minority.

The seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate for Maui dropped to 4.8% in April 2013 from 5.3% in the previous month, and 6.1% one year ago.

The median price of a home sold on Maui declined in March to $508,000, while condominium prices increased to $375,000, according to statistics released by the Realtors Association of Maui on Saturday.

Total expenditures by visitors who came to Maui in February 2013 rose 9.4% (or $29.2 million) from February 2012, to $339.6 million.

The resident population of Maui County has increased by 2.3% since 2010, according to updated population estimates released by the US Census Bureau last week.