Best PlacesPuukohola Heiau National Historic Site, HI Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site, 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.
Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site ranks 29,404th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on clean air by a wide margin, and an overheated housing market is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site
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.
Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site's strengths and weaknesses
Where Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site ranks high
- Air qualityBetter than 99% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 97% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 93% of towns
- TransitBetter than 91% of towns
- Household income$111,964 median, better than 91% of towns
Where Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site ranks low
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 4% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 5% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 6% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site
A household needs to earn about $344,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $111,964, so buying stretches a typical household.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site's effective rate of 0.41%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site
Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site.
Who works in Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site, and how
Work in Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site centers on hospitality & food and professional & technical. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 67%
- Work from home 31%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site
Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site has more restaurants and bars per resident than 98% of towns. The coast is about 2 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site, month by month
Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site sees roughly 138 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 83, with lows near 69. The comfortable stretch runs February.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 83° | 76° | 69° |
| April | 84° | 78° | 71° |
| July | 87° | 81° | 75° |
| October | 87° | 81° | 74° |
Flying in and out of Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site
The nearest airport, Waimea-Kohala, is about 10 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Kahului, about 73 miles away.
The best schools in and around Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site
Schools across Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site average a C−, better than 23% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Waikoloa Elementary And Middle SchoolC− · 29% proficient
- Kohala Elementary SchoolC− · 27% proficient
- Waimea Elementary SchoolD · 19% proficient
Top middle schools
- Kohala Middle SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
Top high schools
- Kealakehe High SchoolC+ · 38% proficient
- Kohala High SchoolC− · 30% proficient
- Honokaa High & Intermediate SchoolC− · 27% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site 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 Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site
Is Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site ranks 29,404th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on clean air, an educated workforce, and population health, and lowest on an overheated housing market and disaster risk. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $1,390,971. The overall cost of living runs about 68% above the national average. Set against a $111,964 median income, cost of living beats 33% of towns.
Is Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site safe?
Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site is safer than 5% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $947 per resident a year.
Compare Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site 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.
Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- 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.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
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