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Keaau CDP, Hawaii: commercial real estate data.
Keaau CDP is a Census CDP of 1,436 people across 6.33 square miles of land, in Hawaii County. Median household income is $85,000, 60.9 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 5 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.3 m.
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Keaau
What Keaau is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area6.33 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land227 plus or minus 52
- County holding the largest share of its areaHawaii County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Keaau
How many people live in Keaau
- Population1,436 plus or minus 332
- Median age43.3
- Population under 18308 plus or minus 95
- Share under 1821.4 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Population 65 and over352 plus or minus 92
- Share 65 and over24.5 percent
- Households478
- Family households285 plus or minus 71
- Share of households that are families59.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Keaau
Income and work in Keaau
- Median household income$85,000 plus or minus $26,032
- Per capita income$37,535 plus or minus $8,571
- Civilian labor force670 plus or minus 183
- Employed655 plus or minus 179
- Unemployed15 plus or minus 17
- Unemployment rate2.2 percent plus or minus 2.5
- Adults 25 and over1,031 plus or minus 239
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher90.4 percent plus or minus 27.0
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher17.3 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.1 percent plus or minus 1.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Keaau
Housing in Keaau
- Housing units523 plus or minus 107
- Occupied units478
- Vacant units45 plus or minus 42
- Vacancy rate8.6 percent plus or minus 7.8
- Owner occupied291 plus or minus 74
- Renter occupied187 plus or minus 64
- Ownership rate60.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$332,900
- Median gross rent, monthly$827 plus or minus $333
- Annual rent as a share of median income11.7 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Single family units457 plus or minus 105
- Share single family87.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more66 plus or minus 39
- Share in buildings of two or more12.6 percent plus or minus 7.1
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1978
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Keaau
How Keaau gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute592 plus or minus 179
- Commuting under 15 minutes133 plus or minus 59
- Share commuting under 15 minutes22.5 percent plus or minus 7.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more194 plus or minus 83
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more32.8 percent plus or minus 9.9
- Drove alone72.0 percent
- Carpooled19.8 percent plus or minus 8.8
- Public transport1.8 percent plus or minus 2.9
- Walked0.3 percent plus or minus 0.8
- Worked from home4.8 percent plus or minus 4.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Keaau
SBA 7(a) lending to Keaau borrowers
- Approvals5
- Gross approval$1,260,000
- Average approval$252,000
- Median approval$50,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,140,000
- Largest approval$1,140,000
- Jobs supported18
- Jobs per approval3.6
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Paid in full1
- Charged off1
- Median term60 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS5
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 2 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Keaau
SBA 504 lending to Keaau borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$67,000
- Average approval$67,000
- Median approval$67,000
- Largest approval$67,000
- Jobs supported2
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs1
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Hawaii County, not Keaau
Hawaii County context, not Keaau figures
These are Hawaii County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Keaau measurements.
- Establishments in Hawaii County4,400
- Employment at those establishments, Hawaii County54,716
- Covered employment, Hawaii County74,029
- Average annual pay, Hawaii County$57,868
- Average weekly wage, Hawaii County$1,113
- Housing units permitted, Hawaii County982
- Of those, single family, Hawaii County974
- County product, 2024, Hawaii County$12,193,115,000
- County product change over the prior year, Hawaii County6.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Hawaii County$102,477
Every figure in this section is published for Hawaii County as a whole and is not a measurement of Keaau. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Keaau questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Keaau, Hawaii?
1,436, in 478 households. Keaau CDP covers 6.33 square miles of land, which is 227 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Keaau in?
Hawaii County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Keaau?
$85,000. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $332,900. Median gross rent is $827 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Keaau businesses?
5 7(a) approvals totalling $1.3 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $50,000, plus 1 504 approvals worth $67,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Keaau, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Keaau borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Keaau. only 2 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Keaau figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Hawaii County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Keaau.
Is zoning published for Keaau?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.