Kaneohe's median home price sits at $832,000, 98% above the $420,000 national median. On a $95,000 median household income, that puts the price-to-income ratio at 8.8x, or 8.8 years of gross pay for the purchase price alone.
At a 0.29% effective rate, Kaneohe property taxes add $201 to the monthly payment on the median home, $2,413 a year in total.
Unlike the nine no-income-tax states, Hawaii taxes wage income. Worth running your actual take-home pay against the $5,042/month payment here before locking in a target price.
Day-to-day expenses in Kaneohe track at 165 against the national 100 baseline, above average once you look past the mortgage payment itself.
Kaneohe's median home price runs 4% lower than nearby Honolulu: $870,000 there versus $832,000 here.