Honolulu, HI (population: 375,134) has twenty-two landscape architecture schools within a 2500-mile radius of its city center. University of California-Berkeley, the highest ranked school in this group with a landscape architecture program, has a total student population of 35,830. It is the 6th highest ranked school in the USA and one of the highest in the state .
Landscape Architecture students from Honolulu schools who go on to become landscape architects, landscape designers, landscapers, landscape supervisors, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 18,940 people working as landscape architects alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $65,910. Also, Landscaping and groundskeeping workers make on average $25,340 per year and there are about 859,960 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Honolulu area alone, there are 3,810 employed landscaping and groundskeeping workers earning an average salary of $28,650. Landscape architects in this area earn $60,840/yr and there are 80 employed.
Honolulu lies in Honolulu county, which is one of the 4 counties in Hawaii. Overall, the Honolulu area has 430,700 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $21/hr average worker wage, and a $43,760 average annual salary. Thus, about 0 out of every 1000 jobs in Honolulu are held by landscape architects, and 9/1000 are held by landscaping and groundskeeping workers.
Of the 22 landscape architecture schools with a 2500-mile radius of Honolulu, only 15 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of California-Berkeley comes out as the most expensive ($14,818/yr) for landscape architecture students, with City College of San Francisco as the lowest, reported at only $4,129/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Honolulu |
| Kaneohe | HI | - | 1 | 8.23652 | 2 | 6.2 miles |
| Pearl City | HI | - | 2 | 22.3389 | 25 | 12.4 miles |