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State Brief · HI

Hawaii

Capital: Honolulu · Latest trade year: 2024

-57%
Exports to Romania
$5K

#51 of 51

+148%
Imports from Romania
$414K

#50 of 51

Trade balance
-$409K

Deficit

Export CAGR
-9.8%

2010 → 2024

Trade history

Goods flow between this state and Romania

Annual goods trade between Hawaii and Romania, in nominal USD. Data from the US Census Bureau Foreign Trade Division (2008–2024).

Exports vs imports

USD, nominal

Trade balance

Surplus / deficit
Peak imports
$897K

in 2016

Import CAGR
0.0%

2010 → 2024

Exports YoY
-57.3%

2023 → 2024

Community

The Romanian-American community

An estimated 781 residents of Hawaii identify as Romanian-American — ranking #45 of 51 nationwide.

Community trends

How the Romanian community in Hawaii grew

An estimated 2,163 Romanian-born residents call Hawaii home.

Top counties

in Hawaii
  • Honolulu County56
  • Kauai County33
  • Maui County3

Insufficient PUMS sample size for this state. Use national estimates. Showing national Romanian-born trends for context.

Estimated Romanian-born residents in Hawaii: 2,163.

Arrivals by decade

Romanian-born residents

Highlighted bar: peak decade. EU accession (2007) and post-2010 Schengen liberalization accelerated arrivals.

  • The 2010s were the biggest immigration decade with 40,047 Romanian-born arrivals — 4x the 2000s
  • 38.6% of Romanian-born US residents have become US citizens
  • Highly educated: 27.2% hold a bachelor's degree or higher — well above the US average of ~35%
  • Strong graduate education: 20.4% hold a master's, professional, or doctoral degree

Faith communities

1 Romanian-affiliated church

The Romanian-American community in Hawaii sustains 1 registered parish across 1 denomination.

Pentecostal (1)
View all 1 parish
  • Bethany Romanian Pentecostal ChurchPentecostal

    Honolulu, HI