Koloa, Hawaii
What Koloa is made of: the communities whose institutions are here, the sectors its 444 businesses sit in, the franchises already on the ground, and the services a newcomer could start.
444 businesses on file · 81 trades · 30 sectors · registry population 2,231 · built from geonet.kauai on 2026-10-27
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The local economy
What the business base is made of, what it is specialised in against the national pattern, and what that mix implies. This is the part a development office would read first.
Composition, not health. geonet records what trades exist and where; it does not record formation, closure, employment or revenue, so none of those appear here. What makes this economics rather than a directory is the NAICS coding: it lets the local mix be read against the BLS survival curves and against the 323 industry groups this research has screened.
Every industry group on this page links through to its NAICS page, and to the screened market report where this research has one — that is what the trait-to-NAICS coding buys.
What this city is specialised in
Location quotient is this city's share of a trade divided by the same share across 10 US metro tables. Above 1.25 is the conventional threshold for a local specialisation.
Thin against the national pattern
Common trades that are under-represented here. For someone deciding what to open, this is the more useful half of the table — though a gap can mean unmet demand or a market that does not work here, and this does not tell you which.
| Industry group | LQ | Businesses | Entry signal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5242 Agencies, brokerages and other insurance related activities — Insurance Brokerage Book Acquisition | 0.1 | 1 | Caution+1 more |
| 6211 Offices of physicians | 0.17 | 1 | Enter |
| 5411 Legal services | 0.18 | 1 | Caution+3 more |
| 4841 General freight trucking — Owner-Operator Trucking | 0.27 | 1 | Caution |
| 4599 Other miscellaneous store retailers — Pet & Pet Supplies Retail | 0.36 | 2 | Caution |
| 4411 Automobile dealers | 0.37 | 3 | Enter |
| 4561 Health and personal care retailers | 0.41 | 1 | Caution |
| 5415 Computer systems design and related services — IT Services & Systems Integration | 0.45 | 3 | Caution |
The base against the entry screen
Businesses by the entry signal of the industry group they sit in, from the /markets screen. A large "structure decides" share means most local trades are ones where being better than the incumbent does not by itself win. A trade is matched to the screened record at whatever level the research wrote it — the same code, a broader one, or a narrower one. Where a group holds several screened sub-markets the count is shown, because no single one of them speaks for the whole group.
How to read the survival figure
Each sector's five-year establishment survival rate, weighted by how many of this city's businesses sit in that sector. It is a property of the MIX, not of these businesses — it says what survival this composition would imply at US private-sector rates, because no Canadian equivalent series exists.
Weighted over 100% of the coded base — public administration carries no curve. Source: Business Employment Dynamics — Table 7, Survival of private sector establishments by opening year, US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
And what it does not measure
A "mixed" trait is one that genuinely spans codes — "computers" covers systems design, repair and supply. The clear share is how much of this reading rests on unambiguous coding. Business density also reflects how completely the directory covers a place, not only how many businesses are in it — so it compares poorly between a city the register knows well and one it does not.
Who lives here, and who the city is for
The census: the only figures on this page that count people rather than businesses, and the three cohort readings they make possible.
No census place is mapped for hi-koloa in local/census-map-us.json, so this page carries no demographics. The mapping is explicit because the United States has dozens of Springfields and Troys, and attaching the wrong one would put another city's figures on this page.
The communities the register shows
A community appears in the business register before it appears in prose — a national church, a society, a credit union, a newspaper. Those are counted as institutions, and they are what suggests residents. A restaurant serving a cuisine is counted separately as trade, because every city has those and they say nothing about who lives nearby. The ranking is by institutions.
| Community | Institutions | Worship | Trade | Where it shows |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Italian | — | — | 1 | |
| French | — | — | 1 |
What the city is made of
Every business on file, grouped by the sector it trades in. This is the economic-development view: where the 444 businesses actually are, and the specific trades inside each sector.
| Sector | Businesses | Share | What is in it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Living | 44 | 9.9% | place of worship (12) · cleaning (10) · real estate (9) · apartment (5) · appliances (2) · property (2) · fire safety (1) · garden (1) |
| Travel | 36 | 8.1% | motel (18) · bnb (6) · hotel (5) · travel agent (3) · truck rental (1) |
| Construction | 33 | 7.4% | home builder (15) · painting (4) · real estate (4) · machinery (2) · plumbing (2) · roofing (2) · electrician (2) · concrete (2) |
| Realty | 31 | 7% | real estate (31) |
| Fashion | 22 | 5% | clothing (22) |
| Business | 21 | 4.7% | accounting (8) · consulting (5) · association (3) · real estate (1) · bank (1) · cemetary (1) |
| Retail | 19 | 4.3% | gifts (4) · antiques (3) · photography (3) · jeweler (3) · flowers (2) · pet supply (2) · office equipment (1) · convenience (1) |
| Health | 19 | 4.3% | chiro (4) · medical clinic (4) · real estate (1) · home healthcare (1) · pharmacy (1) · physician (1) |
| Dining | 18 | 4.1% | restaurant (10) · pubs (2) · diner (1) · burgers (1) · mexican food (1) · steakhouse (1) · pizza (1) · landscaping (1) |
| Education | 15 | 3.4% | school (6) · trade school (5) · real estate (2) · library (1) · writing (1) |
| Entertainment | 13 | 2.9% | amusement (7) · video (2) · video producer (2) · aquarium (1) · nightclub (1) |
| Living & Home | 10 | 2.3% | |
| Media | 8 | 1.8% | advertising (5) · signs (2) · printing (1) |
| Beauty | 8 | 1.8% | hair stylist (7) |
| Food | 8 | 1.8% | grocer (6) · catering (2) |
| Athletic Sports | 7 | 1.6% | |
| Sports | 7 | 1.6% | golf course (5) · golf equipment (2) |
| Law | 6 | 1.4% | mediator (4) · family lawyer (1) |
| Finance | 5 | 1.1% | bank (2) · credit union (1) · insurance (1) · real estate (1) |
| Construction & Realty | 4 | 0.9% |
The franchises already here
Brands from a register of 2,024 franchise systems, matched into this city by name. A high count is a signal in both directions: the territory works, and it may be taken.
4 of these brands are a single common word — Metro, Avenue, Budget — so their counts include businesses that merely share the word. They are marked rather than dropped.
| Brand | Category | Here | Worldwide |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dollar Rent A Car | car | 1 | 600 |
| Sunglass Hut | retail | 1 | — |
| Hyatt name only | upscalehotel | 3 | — |
| Marriott name only | upscalehotel | 2 | 2,800 |
| Clarion name only | businesshotel | 1 | — |
| Progressive name only | supermarket | 1 | 150 |
Real estate as a local trade
Four unrelated jobs share the name: selling existing homes, owning and letting them, managing them for someone else, and building new ones. For anyone weighing a move or a licence these are the counts — and the ownership question goes to /property, which answers it building by building.
Real estate is a local job market in its own right, and four unrelated trades get the same name. Counts are businesses filed under each trade in the register, which lists a brokerage once however many agents work there — so this measures firms, not licensees.
Selling homes
5312Offices of agents and brokers — the resale market, and the biggest single trade in most Canadian cities.
Named in the register
- All Islands Timeshare Resales — 3483 Weliweli Road #N4
- Angels From Paradise — Po Box 1147
- Curtis Michael C RLTR — 2616 Waho Street
- Fidelity National Title Insurance Kauai Office — 3417 Poipu Road 104
- Glenn A Paugh
- Grantham Resorts and Real Estate — PO Box 983
- Hawaian Time Shard — P.O. BOX 428
- Home Inspection Services — 3646 Omao Road
- Island Appraisal and Consulting Services — Po Box 177
- Kauai Home Inspection — 1966 Pahoehoe Street
- Makai Properties Westside — PO Box 905
- Terry P Kamen — 2271 Loke Road
- Turtle Cove Realty — PO Box 147
- Valley Market Place Partners — Poipu Road
Owning and letting
5311Lessors of real estate: the buildings themselves, filed under the building rather than the owner.
Named in the register
- Assocation of APT Owners Poipu — 1775 Pee Rd
- Hale Ohana — 3985 Ohuohu Street
- Koloa Gardens Apartments — 3057 Poipu Road #21
- Nihi Kai Villas — 1870 Hoone Road
- Prince Kuhio Resort Apartments — 5061 Lawai Rd
Managing for owners
5313Property managers, who run buildings the landlord does not.
Named in the register
- Kauai Property Service — 5241 Koloa Rd 3
- Sandal Tree — 1571 Poipu Road
Building new homes
2361Residential builders and the general contractors who work for them.
Named in the register
- Aston At Poipu Kai — 1775 Poipu Road
- B and P Construction — PO Box 1374
- BCO Construction — 4366 Puu Pinao Place
- Coral Sea Construction — Kiahuna Plantation Road
- Custom Creations — 4247 Punee Road
- Dave S Home Repair Service — 3730a Omao Rd
- Goodfellow BROS — Po Box 1090
- Ken Do Repairs and Remodeling — 4366 Punee Road
- Koetje Takatsuki Associates — 3482 Weliweli Road
- Petro Construction — 5049 Kikala Road
- Randy Murch Construction — 3939 Omao Road
- South Shore Builders — 4368 Omao Rd
- T B Melchor Construction — P.O. BOX 580
- Valley Building Enterprises
On "how many doors"
How many doors a landlord holds is not in any of this. The register files an apartment building under the building, not its owner, and carries no unit count; there is no open dataset of Canadian landlords by portfolio. Where this research has established ownership it is in the /property record for the city, building by building, which is a different and much slower exercise.
Work on the go, mobile services
The Ultimate 411 half of local: everything where the customer does not have to come to you. Each service opens a page on Ultimate 411 to request a quote or book a time.
A shop needs the customer to walk in. These 186 services do the opposite — the mobile mechanic, the mobile groomer, the bookkeeper, the junk haul — and they are the ones a person can start without a lease. 1 of them already match a trait filed in this city's register.
The 186 Service=1 rows in search.local: work on the go, mobile services, where the provider travels to the customer. "present" counts businesses already filed under that exact trait name; a blank is a coverage gap, not proof of absence, because the two vocabularies were built separately.
home services
services
events
pets
luxury
healthcare
sporting goods
sports
business
outdoors
travel
construction
Schools and colleges
wander.schools is a post-secondary table — universities and colleges. K-12 public and private schools are not in it, and only 7 of its 1,686 rows carry coordinates, so these are listed and not mapped.
In the business register
Where schooling shows up as a business rather than an institution — which is where K-12, tutoring and childcare appear.
Health and care
What a person moving a parent here would ask first. The register files clinics and pharmacies; it has no category for a hospital at all, so hospitals are matched by name and the limit is stated rather than hidden.
geonet carries no 'hospital' trait, so these are matched on the business name. A distance-to-hospital figure needs a source that states hospital locations.
What this record cannot tell you
Named in full, because the gaps are the part most likely to be misread as an answer.
- No census figures on this page: this region is not mapped to a census subdivision in local/census-map.json, so the community counts here are business-register institutions, which is a different measurement and cannot substitute for a population.
- wander.schools is now readable, but it holds universities and colleges only and 1,679 of its 1,686 rows have no coordinates. K-12 public and private schools need a separate source — in Ontario the Ministry of Education school finder, in British Columbia the provincial school list. wander.citytowns, hotels and territories remain denied to the ru user.
- No 'hospital' trait exists in geonet; distance to a hospital needs an external source such as StatCan's Open Database of Healthcare Facilities.
- 100.0% of businesses here carry no coordinates, so a map or address lookup would miss them. Postal codes reach 100%.
Built from
geonet.kauai— the local business registerwander.regions— city name, population, metrosearch.local— trait vocabulary and the come-to-you servicessearch.cozfranchises— 2,024 franchise brands