Best PlacesAirport, Honolulu, HI Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Airport, Honolulu, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The coast is close, and the measures below put a number on how close. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Airport, Honolulu ranks 1,587th of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on clean air by a wide margin, and civic engagement ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in Airport, Honolulu

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Airport, Honolulu area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.

Airport, Honolulu's strengths and weaknesses

Top 1%Clean air
Top 1%Low property taxes
Top 5%Short commutes
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Airport, Honolulu with other neighborhoods.

Where Airport, Honolulu ranks high

  • Air qualityBetter than 99% of neighborhoods
  • Low property taxBetter than 99% of neighborhoods
  • Short commute15.8 minutes each way, better than 96% of neighborhoods
  • Health outlookBetter than 95% of neighborhoods
  • Crime safetyBetter than 91% of neighborhoods

Where Airport, Honolulu ranks low

  • Voter turnoutBetter than only 4% of neighborhoods
  • State infrastructureBetter than only 5% of neighborhoods
  • State fiscal healthBetter than only 8% of neighborhoods
  • Cell coverageBetter than only 10% of neighborhoods
  • Internet speedBetter than only 11% of neighborhoods

Who lives in Airport, Honolulu

Airport, Honolulu runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
25
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
1%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
3.1
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1829%
18 to 3443%
35 to 4917%
50 to 6410%
65 and older1%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Airport, Honolulu.


Who works in Airport, Honolulu, and how

Work in Airport, Honolulu centers on health care & social and public administration. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.

Work from home
5%
below the national average
Unemployment
5.0%
about the national average
Job growth
−3.3%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Health care & social16%
Public administration13%
Hospitality & food11%
Retail trade10%
Manufacturing6%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 77%
  • Work from home 5%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 18%

Life in Airport, Honolulu

Airport, Honolulu has more restaurants and bars per resident than 80% of neighborhoods and more parkland per resident than 78% of neighborhoods. The coast is about 5 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Airport, Honolulu and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
216
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 101.7 per 10,000 residents, more than 80% of neighborhoods
Coffee shops
29
about 13.7 per 10,000 residents, more than 83% of neighborhoods
Parkland
121 acres
about 5.7 acres per 1,000 residents, more than 78% of neighborhoods
To the coast
5 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in Airport, Honolulu, month by month

Airport, Honolulu sees roughly 146 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 89 degrees. January highs sit near 82, with lows near 67. The comfortable stretch runs December through March.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January82°75°67°
April84°77°70°
July89°81°75°
October88°80°73°

Flying in and out of Airport, Honolulu

Daniel K Inouye International sits about 2 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 10.5 million passengers in 2025, with 65 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
HNL
Daniel K Inouye International, about 2 miles
Airport size
Large hub
30th-busiest in the US, 65 nonstop destinations
Average drive
8 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Airport, Honolulu

Schools across Airport, Honolulu average a B+, better than 80% of neighborhoods.

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Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Airport, Honolulu school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Airport, Honolulu measure by measure

Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Airport, Honolulu against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.


Who Airport, Honolulu suits

Families

Schools beat 80% of neighborhoods and crime safety beats 91%.

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Remote workers

5% already work from home.

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Retirees

The weather beats 74% of neighborhoods.

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Common questions about living in Airport, Honolulu

Is Airport, Honolulu a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Airport, Honolulu ranks 1,587th of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on clean air, low property taxes, and short commutes, and lowest on civic engagement and state infrastructure. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Airport, Honolulu safe?

Yes, Airport, Honolulu is safer than 91% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $298 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in Airport, Honolulu?

July highs average about 89 degrees, and January highs near 82 with lows near 67. That works out to about 146 pleasant days a year, more than 74% of neighborhoods.

Is Airport, Honolulu good for families?

Schools beat 80% of neighborhoods, crime safety beats 91%, and childcare runs $1,434 a month.

Is Airport, Honolulu good for remote workers?

Cost of living against local pay beats 19% of neighborhoods, though advertised internet speeds beat only 11% of neighborhoods. About 5% of workers already work from home.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Airport, Honolulu. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Airport, Honolulu represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.

Airport, Honolulu detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for Airport, Honolulu: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in Airport, Honolulu: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of Airport, Honolulu: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in Airport, Honolulu: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

Airport, Honolulu detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  5. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  6. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  7. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  8. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  9. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  10. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  11. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.