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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Makiki Lower Punchbowl Tantalus West median real estate price is $367,309, which is less expensive than 96.7% of Hawaii neighborhoods and 49.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in Makiki Lower Punchbowl Tantalus West is currently $2,659, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 71.8% of Hawaii neighborhoods.

Makiki Lower Punchbowl Tantalus West is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Makiki Lower Punchbowl Tantalus West real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) apartment complexes/high-rise apartments and single-family homes. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Makiki Lower Punchbowl Tantalus West neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.

Home and apartment vacancy rates are 8.2% in Makiki Lower Punchbowl Tantalus West. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 47.0% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the Makiki Lower Punchbowl Tantalus West (28.6%) than in 98.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

Real Estate

The Makiki Lower Punchbowl Tantalus West neighborhood is very unique in that it has one of the highest proportions of one, two, or no bedroom real estate of any neighborhood in America. Most neighborhoods have a mixture of home or apartment sizes from small to large, but here the concentration of studios and other small living spaces is at near-record heights. With 91.4% of the real estate here of this small size, this most assuredly is a notable feature that makes this neighborhood unique, along with just a handful of other neighborhoods in the U.S. that share this characteristic.

In addition, one of the really unique and interesting things about the look and setting of the Makiki Lower Punchbowl Tantalus West neighborhood is that it is almost entirely dominated by large apartment buildings, such as apartment complexes or high-rise apartments. 86.9% of the residential real estate here is classified as such. This puts this neighborhood on the map as having a higher proportion of large apartment buildings than 97.7% of all neighborhoods in America.

Occupations

The Makiki Lower Punchbowl Tantalus West neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 97.7% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.

People

One of the most interesting things about the Makiki Lower Punchbowl Tantalus West neighborhood is that it has a greater concentration of residents who live alone than most all neighborhoods in America. With 51.3% of the households here made up of people living alone, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this is a larger proportion of people living alone than in 96.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the Makiki Lower Punchbowl Tantalus West neighborhood has more Asian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 56.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Asian ancestry.

Makiki Lower Punchbowl Tantalus West is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Japanese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 100.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the Makiki Lower Punchbowl Tantalus West neighborhood in Honolulu are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.5% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 54.6% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the Makiki Lower Punchbowl Tantalus West neighborhood, 47.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 31.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (11.9%), and 11.1% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the Makiki Lower Punchbowl Tantalus West neighborhood is English, spoken by 64.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and Chinese.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the Makiki Lower Punchbowl Tantalus West neighborhood in Honolulu, HI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (56.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.2%), and residents who report Italian roots (3.8%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.6%), along with some German ancestry residents (3.0%), among others. In addition, 22.4% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in Makiki Lower Punchbowl Tantalus West neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (59.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (28.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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