Discovery Harbour vs Wainaku

A side-by-side comparison of Discovery Harbour and Wainaku: population, income, housing, and more.

Discovery Harbour and Wainaku are places in Hawaii. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Discovery Harbour has the higher population (1,198 vs 1,082 in Wainaku). Wainaku has the higher median household income ($72,188 vs $64,286 in Discovery Harbour). Wainaku has the higher median home value ($532,400 vs $431,700 in Discovery Harbour).

Population, income & housing

	Discovery Harbour	Wainaku
Population	1,198	1,082
Median age	59.4 yrs	43.4 yrs
Median household income	$64,286	$72,188
Median home value	$431,700	$532,400
Median gross rent	$1,579	$1,100
Housing units	695	426
Homeownership rate	81.9%	73.6%
Bachelor's degree or higher	29.3%	29.0%
Unemployment rate	13.8%	4.4%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Discovery Harbour	Wainaku
Population	1,304 → 1,198 (-8.1%)	1,301 → 1,082 (-16.8%)
Median household income	$53,333 → $64,286 (+20.5%)	$52,500 → $72,188 (+37.5%)
Median home value	$299,600 → $431,700 (+44.1%)	$290,300 → $532,400 (+83.4%)
Median gross rent	$1,257 → $1,579 (+25.6%)	$1,375 → $1,100 (-20.0%)

Discovery Harbour

Population

1,3041,198

Median household income

$53,333$64,286

Median home value

$299,600$431,700

Median gross rent

$1,257$1,579

Wainaku

Population

1,3011,082

Median household income

$52,500$72,188

Median home value

$290,300$532,400

Median gross rent

$1,375$1,100

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Discovery Harbour	Wainaku
Under 5	4.0%	6.2%
5 to 17	10.4%	17.2%
18 to 24	5.0%	2.3%
25 to 34	6.6%	11.9%
35 to 44	11.1%	16.9%
45 to 54	5.7%	7.5%
55 to 64	19.1%	18.7%
65 to 74	24.7%	12.7%
75 and over	13.4%	6.7%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Discovery Harbour	Wainaku
White (non-Hispanic)	57.3%	22.2%
Black or African American	0.4%	1.4%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	4.6%	26.6%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	5.8%	0.9%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	20.8%	42.1%
Hispanic or Latino	11.1%	6.7%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Discovery Harbour	Wainaku
No high school diploma	6.0%	11.1%
High school graduate	25.2%	26.1%
Some college or associate's	39.5%	33.8%
Bachelor's degree	16.3%	19.2%
Graduate or professional degree	13.0%	9.8%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Discovery Harbour	Wainaku
Drove alone	76.1%	79.1%
Carpooled	10.2%	10.6%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	13.7%	9.6%
Other means	0.0%	0.6%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Discovery Harbour	Wainaku
1-unit, detached	96.1%	93.4%
1-unit, attached	3.3%	0.7%
2 to 4 units	0.6%	4.2%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	1.6%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Discovery Harbour	Wainaku
Poverty rate	13.8%	7.1%
Average household size	2.26	2.92
Mean commute (minutes)	53	18
Median year structure built	2001	1971