Crime in Lihue, Hawaii
Major crime in Lihue is 3.0 times the U.S. rate per resident: 21% higher for persons crimes and 3.4 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 4.9% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Intimidation and other larceny stand out most, at about 5.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Lihue for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Lihue
The middle half of Lihue residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 46 and 505; the typical (median) resident's is 270.
- 0–5025.8%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–20015.4%
- 200–40018.0%
- 400+40.8%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 4.9% in a year; across Hawaii it fell 11.6%
Change in expected crimes, with Hawaii as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Lihue against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
35 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Lihue; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Lihue has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Wailua Homesteads (6 mi), is 78% below Lihue's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Lihue
What are the most common crimes in Lihue?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 218 a year), shoplifting (about 61 a year) and burglary (about 34 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 5.6 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Lihue's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Lihue's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 74.2% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 7,929. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Lihue, Hawaii." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/hi/lihue
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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- Waialua84 mi49
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