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Waipiʻo Acres, Hawaii

census-designated place in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States of America

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ2630395 ↗
Source-derived summary

Waipiʻo Acres is a census-designated place (CDP) in Honolulu County, Hawaiʻi, United States. The population was 5,531 at the 2020 census.

Geography

Waipiʻo Acres is located at 21°28′7″N 158°0′57″W (21.468700, -158.015722).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.0 square mile (2.6 km2), all of it land.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 5,298 people, 1,823 households, and 1,292 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 5,061.9 inhabitants per square mile (1,954.4/km2). There were 1,951 housing units at an average density of 1,864.0 per square mile (719.7/km2). The racial makeup of the CDP was 18.86% White, 5.21% African American, 0.36% Native American, 36.77% Asian, 8.19% Pacific Islander, 2.11% from other races, and 28.50% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 11.74% of the population.

There were 1,823 households, out of which 36.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.0% were married couples living together, 13.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.1% were non-families. 21.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 3.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

Editorial summary

“Waipiʻo Acres, Hawaii” enters the record as census-designated place in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States of America. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Waipiʻo, Acres and Hawaii can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Waipiʻo, Acres and Hawaii.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Waipiʻo Acres, Hawaii” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Waipiʻo, Acres and Hawaii provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2630395. Authority coordinates are 21.469, -158.016. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 2000.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Waipiʻo Acres, Hawaii”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Waipiʻo Acres, Hawaii primary sources, Waipiʻo Acres, Hawaii archive and Waipiʻo research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Waipiʻo Acres, Hawaii”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Waipiʻo Acres, Hawaii” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.