Maui County, Hawaii
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National protected areas

  • Haleakala National Park
    Haleakala National Park
    Haleakalā National Park is a United States national park located on the island of Maui in the state of Hawaii. The park covers an area of , of which is a wilderness area...

  • Kakahaia National Wildlife Refuge
    Kakahaia National Wildlife Refuge
    Kakahaia National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1977 to permanently protect wetland habitat for endangered endemic waterbirds and wintering migratory wetland birds and to maintain the structural integrity of an ancient Hawaiian fishpond.-Location:...

  • Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge
    Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge
    -External links:***...


Demographics

As of the 2000 Census
United States Census, 2000
The Twenty-second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 persons enumerated during the 1990 Census...

, there were 128,094 people, 43,507 households, and 29,889 families residing in the county. The population density
Population density
Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans...

 was 110 people per square mile (43/km²). There were 56,377 housing units at an average density of 49 per square mile (19/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 28.90% White, 1.40% Black or African American, 0.37% Native American, 33.01% Asian, 10.72% Pacific Islander, 1.36% from other races, and 22.24% from two or more races. 7.8% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 43,507 households out of which 33.00% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.90% were married couples
Marriage
Marriage is a social union or legal contract between people that creates kinship. It is an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledged in a variety of ways, depending on the culture or subculture in which it is found...

 living together, 12.00% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.30% were non-families. 21.90% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.30% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.91 and the average family size was 3.41.

In the county the population was spread out with 25.50% under the age of 18, 7.70% from 18 to 24, 30.90% from 25 to 44, 24.40% from 45 to 64, and 11.40% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 100.90 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.20 males.

Maui

  • Haiku-Pauwela
    Haiku-Pauwela, Hawaii
    Haiku-Pauwela is a census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 6,578 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Haiku-Pauwela is located at ....

  • Haliimaile
    Haliimaile, Hawaii
    Hāliimaile is a census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 895 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Hāliimaile is located at ....

  • Hāna
    Hana, Hawai'i
    Hāna is a census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 2,291 at the 2010 census. Hana is located at the eastern end of the island of Maui and is one of the most isolated communities in the state...

  • Kaanapali
    Kaanapali, Hawaii
    Kāanapali is a census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 1,375 at the 2000 census. The master-planned town is located in the Old Hawaii ahupuaa of Hanakao`o, as in the same name of the southern end of Kaanapali Beach's Hanakao`o Canoe...

  • Kahului
  • Kapalua
    Kapalua, Hawaii
    Kapalua is a census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. A resort development by the Maui Land & Pineapple Company extends inland from Kapalua Bay and Honolua Bay. The population was 467 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...

  • Kihei
    Kihei, Hawaii
    Kīhei is a census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 16,749 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Kīhei is located at ....

  • Lāhainā
    Lahaina, Hawai'i
    Lāhainā is the largest census-designated place in West Maui, Maui County, Hawaii, United States, and the gateway to the famous Kaanapali and Kapalua beach resorts north of the community. As of the 2000 Census, the CDP had a resident population of 9,118...

  • Maalaea
    Maalaea, Hawaii
    Māalaea is a census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 454 at the 2000 census. Māalaea is the site of a small boat harbor, as well as the state-of-the-art Maui Ocean Center.-Geography:...

  • Makawao
    Makawao, Hawaii
    Makawao is a census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 6,327 at the 2000 census. Located in the rural northeast slope of Haleakala on East Maui, the community is known for being the hub of the "Upcountry", a part of the island dominated by mostly...

  • Napili-Honokowai
    Napili-Honokowai, Hawaii
    Nāpili-Honokōwai is a census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 6,788 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Nāpili-Honokōwai is located at ....

  • Paia
    Paia, Hawaii
    Pāia is a census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, on the northern coast of the island of Maui. The population was 2,499 at the 2000 census. Pāia is home to several restaurants, art galleries, surf shops and other tourist-oriented businesses. One business, Charley's, is frequented by...

  • Pukalani
    Pukalani, Hawaii
    Pukalani is a census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 7,380 at the 2000 census. The general volcano-slope region, including nearby Makawao and Kula, is referred to as upcountry by locals, and is one of the four major population centers on Maui, the other...

  • Waihee-Waiehu
    Waihee-Waiehu, Hawaii
    Waihee-Waiehu is a census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 7,310 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Waihee-Waiehu is located at ....

  • Waikapu
    Waikapu, Hawaii
    Waikapū is a census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 1,115 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Waikapū is located at ....

  • Wailea-Makena
    Wailea-Makena, Hawaii
    Wailea-Makena is a census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 5,671 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Wailea-Makena is located at ....

  • Wailuku
    Wailuku, Hawaii
    Wailuku is a census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 12,296 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Maui County.Wailuku is located just west of Kahului, at the mouth of the Īao Valley...


  • Molokai

    • Kaunakakai
      Kaunakakai, Hawaii
      Kaunakakai is a census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. It is the largest town on the island of Molokai. The population was 2,726 at the 2000 census. It is "twinned" with Embo in Scotland...

  • Kualapuu
    Kualapuu, Hawaii
    Kualapuu is a census-designated place on the island of Molokai in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 1,936 at the 2000 census. Kualapuu can be literally translated as "hill overturned", but is thought to be a corruption of Puuuala: "sweet potato hill"...

  • Maunaloa
    Maunaloa, Hawaii
    Maunaloa is a census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States, in the western part of the island of Molokai. The population was 230 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Maunaloa is located at ....


  • Unincorporated towns

    • Haiku
      Haiku, Hawaii
      Haiku is an unincorporated community in Maui County on the island of Maui in the state of Hawaii. For United States Census purposes, it is part of the Haiku-Pauwela, Hawaii census-designated place, which also includes Pauwela....

    • Keokea
  • Napili
    Napili, Hawaii
    Napili is an unincorporated area located north of Lāhainā, West Maui, Hawaii, United States. Napili Beach is a small beach surrounded by condominiums, and the local neighborhoods of Hui Road and Napilihau are home to hundreds of the people who work in West Maui's tourist industry.-See...

  • Pu'unene
  • Waihee
    Waihee, Hawaii
    Waihee, Hawaii is an unincorporated town in Maui County on the island of Maui in the state of Hawaii....


  • Top employers

    According to the County's 2010 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the county are:
    # Employer # of Employees
    1 State of Hawaii
    Hawaii
    Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...

    6,112
    2 Maui County 2,874
    3 TS Restaurants 1,750
    4 Grand Wailea Resort & Spa 1,400
    5 Fairmont Hotels and Resorts
    Fairmont Hotels and Resorts
    Fairmont Hotels & Resorts is a Canadian-based operator of luxury hotels and resorts. Currently, Fairmont operates properties in 18 countries including Canada, the United States, Mexico, Bermuda, Barbados, United Kingdom, Monaco, Germany, Switzerland, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, the...

    1,220
    6 United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

    909
    7 Maui Land & Pineapple Company
    Maui Land & Pineapple Company
    Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc. is a land holding and operating company founded in 1909 and based in Maui, Hawaii, United States. It owns approximately on the island of Maui. It develops, sells, and manages residential, resort, commercial and industrial real estate; and operates retail, golf...

    800
    7 Hyatt Regency Maui Resort & Spa 800
    7 Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts
    Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts
    Four Seasons Hotels, Inc. is a Canadian-based international ultra-luxury, five-star hotel management company. Travel + Leisure magazine and Zagat Survey rank the hotel chain's 84 properties among the top luxury hotels worldwide...

    650
    8 Hale Makua 501
    9 Wailea Beach Marriott Resort & Spa
    Marriott International
    Marriott International, Inc. is a worldwide operator and franchisor of a broad portfolio of hotels and related lodging facilities. Founded by J. Willard Marriott, the company is now led by son J.W. Marriott, Jr...

    403
    10 Dorvin D. Leis Co. 314

    Transportation

    Two airports provide scheduled air service to the island of Maui
    Maui
    The island of Maui is the second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands at and is the 17th largest island in the United States. Maui is part of the state of Hawaii and is the largest of Maui County's four islands, bigger than Lānai, Kahoolawe, and Molokai. In 2010, Maui had a population of 144,444,...

    :
    • Kahului Airport
      Kahului Airport
      Kahului Airport is a regional airport in the state of Hawai'i, located east of the Kahului CDP in Maui County on the island of Maui near Haleakala. Most flights into OGG originate from Honolulu International Airport; the Honolulu–Kahului corridor is one of the busiest air routes in the US,...

       in central Maui
    • Kapalua Airport
      Kapalua Airport
      Kapalua Airport , also known as Kapalua West Maui Airport, is a regional airport on the west side of the island of Maui. It is located northwest of Lahaina, in Maui County, Hawaii, United States....

       in western Maui


    Lanai Airport
    Lanai Airport
    Lānai Airport is a public airport located three nautical miles southwest of Lānai City, serving as the only airport of the island of Lānai, Hawaii in the United States.- Facilities and aircraft :...

     provides service for Lanai
    Lanai
    Lānai or Lanai is the sixth-largest of the Hawaiian Islands. It is also known as the Pineapple Island because of its past as an island-wide pineapple plantation. The only town is Lānai City, a small settlement....

    .
    Molokai Airport
    Molokai Airport
    Molokai Airport is a public airport located northwest of Kaunakakai, on the island of Molokai in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. It is the principal airport of the island.- Facilities and aircraft :...

    , also in Maui County, provides service for Molokai
    Molokai
    Molokai or Molokai is an island in the Hawaiian archipelago. It is 38 by 10 miles in size with a land area of , making it the fifth largest of the main Hawaiian Islands and the 27th largest island in the United States. It lies east of Oahu across the 25-mile wide Kaiwi Channel and north of...

    .

    Sister cities

    Maui County currently has 21 sister cities, including: - Albi, France
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

     - Territory of American Samoa
    American Samoa
    American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa...

     - Arequipa
    Arequipa
    Arequipa is the capital city of the Arequipa Region in southern Peru. With a population of 836,859 it is the second most populous city of the country...

    , Peru
    Peru
    Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

     - Bacarra, Ilocos Norte
    Bacarra, Ilocos Norte
    Bacarra is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, Philippines. According to the latest census, it has a population of 31,485 people in 6,289 households.-Barangays:Bacarra is politically subdivided into 43 barangays.-External links:*...

    , Philippines
    Philippines
    The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

     - Embo
    Embo
    For the scientific organisation, see European Molecular Biology Organization.Embo is a village in the Highland Council Area in Scotland and the former/postal county of Sutherland, about 2 miles NNE of Dornoch....

    , Scotland
    Scotland
    Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

    , United Kingdom
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     - Funchal
    Funchal
    Funchal is the largest city, the municipal seat and the capital of Portugal's Autonomous Region of Madeira. The city has a population of 112,015 and has been the capital of Madeira for more than five centuries.-Etymology:...

    , Portugal
    Portugal
    Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

     - Hachijo Island, Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

     - Hainan Province, People's Republic of China
    People's Republic of China
    China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

     - Hirara, Okinawa, Japan - Madrid
    Madrid
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    , Spain - Manila
    Manila
    Manila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,...

    , Philippines - Pingtung County
    Pingtung County
    Pingtung County is a county in Southern Taiwan. Pingtung County is officially administered as a county of the Republic of China . The oldest national park in Taiwan, Kenting National Park, was established in Pingtung County in 1984...

    , Taiwan
    Taiwan
    Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

     - Puerto Princesa, Philippines - Rapa Nui
    Easter Island
    Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian triangle. A special territory of Chile that was annexed in 1888, Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapanui people...

    , Chile
    Chile
    Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

     - Quezon City
    Quezon City
    Quezon City is the former capital and the most populous city in the Philippines. Located on the island of Luzon, Quezon City is one of the cities and municipalities that make up Metro Manila, the National Capital Region. The city was named after Manuel L...

    , Philippines - San Juan, Philippines - San Miguel Island
    San Miguel Island
    San Miguel Island is the westernmost of California's Channel Islands, located across the Santa Barbara Channel in the Pacific Ocean, within Santa Barbara County, California. San Miguel is the sixth-largest of the eight Channel Islands at , including offshore islands and rocks. Prince Island, off...

    , Azores
    Azores
    The Archipelago of the Azores is composed of nine volcanic islands situated in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, and is located about west from Lisbon and about east from the east coast of North America. The islands, and their economic exclusion zone, form the Autonomous Region of the...

    , Portugal - Santiago, Ilocos Sur
    Santiago, Ilocos Sur
    Santiago is a 5th class municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, Philippines. According to the latest census, it has a population of 16,806 people in 3,233 households.Santiago Cove is dubbed as the "Boracay of Ilocos Sur" because of its white sands....

     (Philippines) - Zambales Province, Philippines - Zhongshan City, People's Republic of China - Lake Chapala, Guadalajara
    Lake Chapala
    Lake Chapala is Mexico's largest freshwater lake. It lies in the municipalities of Chapala, Jocotepec , Poncitlán, and Jamay, in Jalisco, and in Venustiano Carranza and Cojumatlán de Régules, in Michoacán.- Geographic Features :...

    , Mexico

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