Kailua, Hawaii 作者：  来源：  发布时间：2021-07-20

I.Population and Area

₋Area

 Land: 10.6 sq mi (27.4 km2)

₋Population

 Total: 38,635

 Density:  3,700/sq mi (1,400/km2)

II.Natural Geography

₋Kailua  is a census-designated place (CDP) in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States. It lies in the Koʻolaupoko District of the island of Oʻahu on the windward coast at Kailua Bay. It is in the judicial district and the ahupua'a named Ko'olaupoko. It is 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Honolulu – over Nu‘uanu Pali. The population was 38,635 at the 2010 census.

₋In the Hawaiian language Kailua means "two seas" or "two currents", a contraction of the words kai (meaning "sea" or "sea water") and ʻelua (meaning "two"); it is so named because of the two lagoons in the district or the two currents which run through Kailua Bay.

₋Kailua is primarily a residential community, with a centralized commercial district along Kailua Road. The population was 50,000 in 1992. As of the 2017 census, the population has dropped to 38,000.

₋Places of note in Kailua include Kailua Beach Park, Lanikai Beach, Kawai Nui Marsh, Maunawili Falls, and Marine Corps Base Hawaii. It was home to Barack Obama’s winter White House.

III.GDP

₋The average salary in Kailua, HI is $18.08. Trends in wages increased by 4.3 percent in Q1 2020. The cost of living in Kailua, HI is 100 percent higher than the national average. The most popular occupations in Kailua, HI are Registered Nurse (RN), Medical Assistant, and Registered Behavior Technician which pay between $11.45 and $38.98 per year. The most popular employer in Kailua, HI is Adventist Health.

₋Website: https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Location=Kailua-HI/Salary

IV.Industrial Characteristics

₋The economy of Kailua, HI employs 18.6k people. The largest industries in Kailua, HI are Health Care & Social Assistance (2,837 people), Educational Services (2,089 people), and Public Administration (2,033 people), and the highest paying industries are Utilities ($83,750), Health Care & Social Assistance ($74,004), and Professional, Scientific, & Technical Services ($72,824).

₋Website: https://datausa.io/profile/geo/kailua-hi

V.Attractions

1.Kailua Beach Park

₋Kailua Beach Park ranks as the second most beautiful out of all the Oahu Beaches.  It’s a little unfair to rank Kailua Beach as second best, because it is next door neighbor to the most beautiful spot on the island, Lanikai Beach.

₋Kailua Beach Park is located on the easterly shoreline, where the ocean waters are as turquoise blue as they get, and equally matched with an amazing soft, white powder sand.

₋Many beach goers on the island, rate Kailua Beach Park number one over Lanikai Beach, simple because it is larger -- two and half miles long to be exact!  

₋Kailua Beach Park has actually grown a little larger over the past couple of decades, thanks to many Lanikai real estate beach homes that built sea walls to protect their properties from land erosion.

₋The irony of these efforts was losing their beautiful beachfront sand in the process, which naturally shifted over to Kailua Beach Park.

₋Address: 526 Kawailoa Rd, Kailua, HI 96734, United States

₋Phone: +1 808-266-7652

₋Website: https://www.best-of-oahu.com/kailua-beach-park.html

2. Lanikai Pillbox

₋The Lanikai Pillbox Hike, also popularly known as the Kaiwa Ridge Trail, is one of the most picturesque and pleasant Oahu hiking trails.  This intermediate hike rises just above beautiful Lanikai Beach, rewarding hikers with some of the best vistas of Oahu’s windward side.

₋Lanikai Pillbox Hike is ranked intermediate because of the steady steep grade of the uphill climb right from the start of the trail head.

₋Throughout the climb, hikers are rewarded with views of the Mokulua Islands, Kailua Beach, Lanikai Beach, and its surrounding residential neighborhoods.

₋In the distance, you can also see Kaneohe Bay,  Waimanalo Bay, and the Makapu’u Lighthouse.

₋Address: Kailua, HI 96734, United States

₋Phone: +1 808-587-0400

₋Website: https://www.best-of-oahu.com/lanikai-pillbox-hike.html

3. Kawai Nui Marsh

₋Kawai Nui Marsh  is, at over 800 acres (3.2 km2), the largest wetlands in the Hawaiian Islands. The marsh is located near Kailua on the windward side of O'ahu and is owned by the State of Hawaii and the City & County of Honolulu. 250 acres (1.0 km2) of the land is from a 1968 sale to the City and County of Honolulu by Kaneohe Ranch. Kawai Nui marsh is a Ramsar Convention wetland site, established in February 2005.

₋Kawai nui means "the big water" in Hawaiian and reflects the fact that this feature was a huge, possibly marine or estuarine, body of water at the time when the area was first settled by Polynesians. Today, nearly all of the marsh is covered by plants, and this is either floating on water, growing on a mat of peat that is floating on water, or in the upper-most parts of the marsh a wet meadow. The latter area is utilized by cattle for grazing when not flooded by high water level. Most of the marsh lies behind a levee constructed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers for flood control purposes. The marsh is the lowland recipient of sometimes very heavy rainfall in Maunawili Valley. The marsh outlet is through a man-made channel, Oneawa Channel.

₋Address: Kailua, HI 96734, United States

₋Phone: +1 808-768-3003

₋Website: https://www.hawaii.com/oahu/things-to-do/hiking/kawai-nui-marsh-trail/

VI.History

₋In the 16th century, Kailua attracted the ali'i giving birth to many rich Hawaiian legends, some of which may be found in written and oral reminiscences in Hawaii State Libraries. Many legends were born here including the menehune who were known for working at night in Kaiwainui Marsh and mo'o who took the shape of a large lizardthat attracted fish. Kailua was denselypopulated before the arrival of Captain Cook and was the ancient capital of O'ahu's kings. The biggest event in Kailua and the entire Windward side was in 1795 when King Kamehameha I conquered O'ahu in his quest to unite the Hawaiian Islands. The King granted Kaiwainui Marsh and old Kailua, which included large freshwater fish ponds and saltwater ponds at Mokapu, to the warriors and chiefs that had helped him. The land was used in various forms for agriculture from sugarcane to rice to taro and eventually was used primarily for cattle raising.

₋Kailua was a sleepy town of barely 3,000 in the 1940s. However, the events of World War II changed the appearance of Kailua. Kaneohe Ranch sold portions of land to the government for expansion of the Navy base (now Marine Corps Base Hawaii) and the Army's Fort Hase. Finally in 1942, Kaneohe Ranch closed down its cattle raising operations entirely, freeing thousands of acres for post-war development. Harold K.L. Castle, owner of Kaneohe Ranch, donated the land for many churches, schools, and for a new hospital.  A new four-lane highway, tunneling through the Ko'olau Mountains, was completed in the late 1950s. In 1946, a small Liberty House (now Macy's) shop opened with three employees and upgraded to a full-line department store in 1953 with nearly 50 employees.  The first bowling alley, a branch office of the telephone company, and the very first supermarket in Hawaii opened in Kailua in 1947.   By the end of the 1950s, Hawaii had become a state and Kailua became the official postal designation (previously known as Lanikai).  Castle Hospital (now Castle Medical Center) opened in 1963. By 1960 the population was up to 24,400.

The town has grown more than 100 percent since 1960 when its population was 24,402. It has a compact, easy-to-shop business district surrounded by mostly single-family homes. By 1992 50,000 residents encompassed a central urban core with surrounding residential areas.

₋Website: http://www.kailuachamber.com/page-538236#:~:text=Kailua%20was%20denselypopulated%20before%20the,to%20unite%20the%20Hawaiian%20Islands.

VII.Other Information

₋Government and infrastructure

₋The Honolulu Police Department operates the Kailua Substation in Kailua. The United States Postal Service operates the Kailua Post Office.

₋The Hawaii Department of Public Safety operates the Women's Community Correctional Center in Maunawili CDP, near Kailua. The Hawaii Department of Human Services operates the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility (HYCF) in Maunawili, near Kailua.

₋Winter White House

₋Barack Obama has taken winter vacations in 2008 & 2009 in Kailua and in the rented, ocean-front house Plantation Estate in the Paradise Point Estates in 2010, 2011 & 2012. The house was built by developer Harold Kainalu Long Castle, who also lived there. Obama also took a vacation break in August 2008 at a different Kailua house, Oahu Lani, during the 2008 United States presidential election.

VIII.Contact Information

₋Government

Mayor: Kirk Caldwell

 ₋City Hall

₋Address:

151 Hekili Street, Suite 230

Kailua, HI 96734

₋Tel: (808) 548-0901

₋Hours: 8 am to 5 pm (M-F)

₋Email: kailuamanagement@abhi.com

₋Website: https://kailuatownhi.com/visit#Contact