Gender Ratio In Hawaii Sucks: Blame the White Dudes

There are too many white guys in Hawaii.

I always wondered “where are all the white girls?” Clubs always have tons of white guys, but no white girls. Why? Because there aren’t many.

Put simply, if you think there are too many guys in the club, blame the white guys.

In the 15 - 40 year old range, there are 119 white guys for every 100 white girls. Seriously, 119, that’s crazy. And get this: for 20 year olds, there are 162 white guys for every 100 white girls. 162!!!! That’s just astounding. If you’re a white guy between the ages of 19 and 23, good luck finding a white girl because that ratio is 148!! Three white dudes, meet two white girls, go have fun.

The data has “white” as “white or partially white” and Asian as “Asian or partially Asian”

Meanwhile, Asians are more or less even.

Take out the excess in white guys (i.e. make the white people ratio 100 males : 100 females) and the total ratio of men to women in Hawaii falls below 100: this is demonstrated by the turquoise line.

Although the Black ratio is as crazy as 200:100 at some ages, it doesn't make much difference because there are so few Blacks in Hawaii.

Here's the data without Black, Native American, and Pacific Islander (which includes Hawaiians).


Now that I look at this data more, I realize the high amount 18 -25 year old white men, and men in Hawaii in general, is probably related to the military.

I also don't know how many half Asian-half white people (hapa) are counted here, but I would guess that the Hawaii born hapa kids balance each other out. It doesn't make sense to say that all the guys are hapa, but the girls aren't.

I really believe that a whole ton of white dudes just decided to move to Hawaii, but white girls don't. Again, this is probably related to the military.

Here’s the key to the above chart:
(This was from 2006 census data estimates.)

*“White” means “White Alone or in Combination”
*“Asian” means “Asian Alone or in Combination”
*“If Even White” means if there were an even number of White males and White females, this is what the gender ratio would look like for all races. In other words, kick out the excess white guys and this is what Hawaii would look like.
*“All Races” all races in the census include White, Asian, Black, Native American, and Pacific Islander (which includes Hawaiians)

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Gender Ratio in Honolulu

I managed to find data on Honolulu. Short story is that there are still more men than women, but it isn't as uneven as my previous charts depict.

The data had the ages grouped by 5 year increments. 0-4, 5-9, 10-14, 15-19, etc. Since i didn't know how to graph groups of ages, I just averaged the ages. Therefore 20-24 became "22" and 35-39 became "37".

(for full size, click the chart).

Interesting how the big peak is still around the 20-24 age level. I'm not sure what to make of this. Maybe boys are more likely to come home from college? Or less likely to go to college. I really don't know. In any case, the peak didn't push itself across time as I previously assumed.

Here's a little more information on the data: I got it from the Hawaii government site here and here is the direct file. The data is for Honolulu county (Oahu) for the date of July 1, 2006. The data was released on August 9, 2007.

Gender Ratio in Hawaii

I’ve always been fascinated with why Hawaii clubs have so many guys and so little girls. I often find myself surrounded my guys--why is that? At first, I thought that it was just my perception because I could never find hard data to support my theory.


Then, about a year ago, National Geographic published a chart showing where all the single males and females lived and it basically showed that west coast had more single males and the east coast had more single females. As I suspected, Hawaii fell into the west coast category.


Recently though, after months of searching, I found the 2000 U.S. Census data on Hawaii broken down by gender and age (here). Finally!

This is a chart that I made based upon the 2000 data.

That big ass peak over 21 year olds has a whopping 131 males to each female (9,647 males: 7,368 females). Ouch. You'd better elevate your game boys.

Here's two more charts of the actual numbers. (click on the charts to see them full size)




I suspect that the big peaks over 19 - 25 are related to the military.

Here's the raw data from the 2000 Census of Males and Females

Age -Male - Female:
00 - 7,922 - 7,542
01 - 8,029 - 7,542
02 - 7,928 - 7,449
03 - 7,916 - 7,579
04 - 8,315 - 7,941
05 - 8,384 - 7,899
06 - 8,655 - 8,258
07 - 8,741 - 8,188
08 - 8,951 - 8,176
09 - 9,008 - 8,720
10 - 8,937 - 8,530
11 - 8,543 - 7,968
12 - 8,519 - 8,075
13 - 8,381 - 7,908
14 - 8,360 - 7,885
15 - 8,399 - 7,705
16 - 8,610 - 8,075
17 - 8,627 - 8,102
18 - 7,906 - 7,477
19 - 8,658 - 7,443
20 - 9,252 - 7,705
21 - 9,647 - 7,368
22 - 9,164 - 7,489
23 - 8,921 - 7,583
24 - 8,725 - 7,555
25 - 8,861 - 7,680
26 - 8,325 - 7,553
27 - 8,624 - 7,808
28 - 8,851 - 8,175
29 - 9,355 - 8,768
30 - 9,657 - 8,912
31 - 8,483 - 8,247
32 - 8,667 - 8,390

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