Obviously the meaning of the standard deviation is its relation to the mean, No, not always. In the case of sizes of things or amounts of things (e.g. tonnage of coal, volume of money), that often makes sense, but in other contexts it doesn't make sense to compare to the mean.
Population of Maui County. Last official estimated population of Maui County was 154,982 (year 2014)[1]. This was 0.049% of total US population and 10.8% of total Hawaii state population. Area of Maui County is 2,398.3 miÂ² (=6211.7 kmÂ²), in this year population density was 64.62 p/miÂ². If population growth rate would be same as in period 2010-2014 (+0.02%/yr), Maui County population in 2017 would be 155,093 .
Hawaii ranked 42nd in population in the US with an estimated total of 1,244,898 in 2002, an increase of 2.8% since 2000. Between 1990 and 2000, Hawaii's population grew from 1,108,229 to 1,211,537, an increase of 9.3%. The population is projected to reach 1,342,000 by 2005 and 1.8 million by 2025.