Honolulu is a center for Hawaiian music and theatre, where residents lead active lifestyles, and obesity rates are below the national average.
City: Honolulu
State: Hawaii
Best Cities Overall Rank: 26
About Honolulu:The Bishop Museum is the largest of Honolulu’s museums. It holds the state’s largest collection of natural history specimens and the world’s largest collection of Hawaiian and Pacific culture artifacts.
Honolulu is a center for Hawaiian music and theatre. Many Honolulu residents lead active lifestyles, and obesity rates are below the national average. In 2004, Men’s Fitness magazine named Honolulu the fittest city in the United States. The Honolulu economy is powered by tourism, military, the defense contracting industry, manufacturing and research and development. The city’s unemployment rate is 6.9 percent, which is the eighth lowest nationally compared with the national rate of 9.7 percent during March.
County: Honolulu
Population: 374,676
Official website for city visitors’ bureau/city: Visitor’s bureau website
Newspaper with the largest circulation: Honolulu Advertiser
Honolulu blogs: Honolulu Advertiser
Honolulu‘s Facebook page: Follow Honolulu on Facebook
Honolulu‘s Twitter page: Follow Honolulu on Twitter
Education rank: 33
High School graduation rate 2008: 60.1%
Blue Ribbon Schools, 2003-2009: 13
Blue Ribbon Schools per 100,000 people: 3.47
NEAYC-accredited preschools: 25
NAEYC schools per 100,000 people: 6.67
NAEP State proficiency reading, grade 8: 255
Pupil/Teacher Ratio: 15.8
Total Expenditures Per Student: $12,171
Health rank: 12
Quality children’s hospitals: 2
Hospitals per 100,000 people: 0.54
Quality Pediatricians: 1
Quality Pediatricians per 100,000: 0.27
Average number of Unhealthy Air Quality days between 2006-2008, by county: 0
Safety rank: 47
Violent Crimes, 2008: 2575
Violent Crime Rate per 100,000: 687.26
Sex Offenders: 611
Sex Offenders per 100,000: 163.07
Economy rank: 18
Travel time to work, 2006-2008, in minutes: 23
Percent of labor force unemployed, January 2010: 6
Best Performing Cities Job Index: 986.91
Median Home Sale Price: $414,000
Percent of homes sold for a loss: 16.50%
Recreation Rank: 44
Parkland acreage, 2008 (includes pools and playgrounds): 5318
Parkland per 100,000: 1419.36
