Demographics

2017 U.S. Census Data reports Maui County with a 65% Minority Population and a 10% Poverty Population. $72,762 is the median household income and per capita income is reported at $32,379. The cost of living in Maui County is comparatively greater than the state of Hawaii and rest of the the Country. I.e. the cost of housing is 3x the national average and utilities are almost 2x the national average. Food and groceries come in at 1.5x greater than the national average.

• 10.3% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in Hawaii (143k out of 1.38M people) live below the poverty line, a number that is lower than the national average of 13.4%. https://datausa.io/profile/geo/hawaii
• The percentage of Maui County families in poverty was 7.4 percent in 2017, an increase from the 6 percent of families in 2016. https://www.mauinews.com/news/local-news/2018/09/one-in-10-county-residents-lives-below-poverty-line/
• A single person earning up to $54,700 is considered low-income in the Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina area of Maui, while a person making up to $50,400 on Kauai County is considered low-income. For Hawaii County, the low-income limit for a single person is set at $44,000.May 28, 2019 https://www.staradvertiser.com/2019/05/28/hawaii-news/newswatch/low-income-threshold-rises-to-67500-in-honolulu/