Hawaii · Census place 1571550

Urban Honolulu, Hawaii

Urban Honolulu is a place in Honolulu County, Hawaii with an estimated 344,967 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the largest of 1 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
344,967
#1 of 1 in Hawaii
Change since 2020
-1.0%
-3,475 people
Land area
60.6 sq mi
+ 7.83 sq mi water
Density
5,691 / sq mi
State median 5,691
Orange pin: Urban Honolulu. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Honolulu.

Urban Honolulu population, 2020 to 2024

Urban Honolulu lost 3,475 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.0%. In the latest year it moved by +1,436. The median place of 5,000+ in Hawaii has 344,967 people, so Urban Honolulu is 1.0 times that size.

348.4k2020346.6k2021344.0k2022343.5k2023345.0k2024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 350,956. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Urban Honolulu covers 60.62 square miles of land and 7.83 of water, for 5,691 people per square mile of land. The median Hawaii place of 5,000+ has 5,691, so Urban Honolulu is close to the typical town.

What county Urban Honolulu is in

All of Urban Honolulu's residents live in Honolulu County, which had 998,747 residents in 2024. Urban Honolulu holds 34.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Urban Honolulu

14 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Urban Honolulu by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the place's land: 96813, 96814, 96815, 96816, 96817, 96818, 96819, 96820, 96822, 96826, 96848, 96850, 96858, 96859. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a place that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Urban Honolulu is

The Census internal point of Urban Honolulu is at 21.324300, -157.847600. Honolulu, the capital, is 1.4 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is San Francisco, CA (827,526 people), 2,360.7 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 54 m (177 ft) above sea level.

Internal point

Decimal
21.324300, -157.847600
DMS
21°19'27.48"N 157°50'51.36"W
UTM
4N 619512.9E 2358476.6N
Geohash
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Plus code
73H485F2+PX
Time zone
Pacific/Honolulu

Daylight in Urban Honolulu

At 21.32° N, Urban Honolulu gets about 13 h 26 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 50 min around the December solstice, a swing of 2 h 36 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Urban Honolulu daylight page.

Places near Urban Honolulu

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Hawaii, measured between internal points.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Urban Honolulu, HI?

344,967 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 3,475 (1.0%) from 348,442 in July 2020.

What county is Urban Honolulu in?

Honolulu County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Urban Honolulu?

14 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 96813, 96814, 96815, 96816, 96817, 96818, 96819, 96820, 96822, 96826, 96848, 96850, and more.

How far is Urban Honolulu from Honolulu?

1.4 miles (2.2 km) in a straight line, heading SSW from Urban Honolulu.

What is the nearest larger city to Urban Honolulu?

San Francisco, CA, with 827,526 residents, 2,360.7 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
  5. 05Open-Meteo forecast API (time zone and Copernicus GLO-90 elevation) (last verified 2026-09-30)

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