Charlotte vs Hialeah: which should you move to?
Charlotte or Hialeah? Housing, rent, crime, climate, income, taxes and transit, side by side, from each city's own published figures. Written for someone deciding where to live, not for a ranking.
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Both cities price in US dollars and both figures were written at Freddie Mac's August rate of 6.67%, so the bills compare directly, though the two prices are different instruments: Charlotte's is the Canopy MLS median of sales inside the city, $430,000 in July 2026, and Hialeah's Zillow's typical value across every home in the city, $445,331 in June. The prices are close and the bills are not. Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $2,644 a month in Charlotte and $3,425 in Hialeah, and against pay the gap is wider still, roughly 37% of Charlotte's median household income of $86,416 against 72% of Hialeah's $57,151. Most of the difference is a homesteaded property tax of about $7,534 a year against $3,010 and insurance of $505 a month against $180, before any flood policy. Florida takes no income tax, where North Carolina takes $3,709 of $100,000, which on these figures outweighs Hialeah's extra property tax only above about $119,200 of income. Hialeah is the safer city on every count available, 178 violent offenses per 100,000 against about 607 and 3 homicides against 96. Charlotte has the growth, the pay, Medicaid expansion and a hub airport; Hialeah has a 19.7 C January, Metrorail inside the city, Tri-Rail at its edge and the most Cuban city in the country. Choose Charlotte to own for less, in dollars and against pay, and for health coverage that reaches lower incomes. Choose Hialeah for low crime, no state income tax and a life in Spanish, if you can carry the bill and will price the flood zone.
| Measure | Charlotte | Hialeah | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| City population | 964,784 (2025) | 230,968 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
| Metro population | 2,938,830 (2025) | 6,391,072 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
| Five-year growth Growth is pressure on rents and roads as much as it is opportunity, so it is reported without a winner. | 10.3% (2020-2025) | 3.5% (2020-2025) | Not directly comparable |
What a home costs in each
The figures the two cities' rent-versus-buy and mortgage calculators run on, read from the same tables.
| Measure | Charlotte | Hialeah | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benchmark home price MLS® HPI or equivalent benchmark. Lower is treated as the advantage, which is the buyer's view rather than the owner's. | $430,000 (July 2026) | $445,331 (June 2026) | Charlotte |
| Detached house benchmark Hialeah publishes a single house index rather than a composite, so the two rows repeat. | $420,000 | $445,331 | Charlotte |
| Apartment or condominium benchmark | $292,000 | Not published | Not directly comparable |
| Two-bedroom rent | $1,781/mo (average, August 2026) | $2,374/mo (median, June 2026) | Charlotte |
| One-bedroom rent | $1,470/mo | $2,042/mo | Charlotte |
| Two-bedroom rent against median income A year of two-bedroom rent as a share of the median household income below. A household paying the median rent out of the median income is a fiction, but it is the same fiction in both columns and it crosses currencies. | 24.7% of a year's income | 49.8% of a year's income | Charlotte |
| Mortgage payment on the benchmark, 20% down 30-year amortization on American monthly compounding, the convention in both. | $2,213/mo at 6.67% | $2,292/mo at 6.67% | Charlotte |
| Price to household income Benchmark price divided by the median household income below. A ratio is comparable across currencies; the dollars are not. | 5.0× | 7.8× | Charlotte |
| Property tax on the benchmark home The effective rate on market value, which is what the two rates have in common and what the Advantage column is decided on; the bills are in each city's own dollars. | $3,010/yr (0.70%, 2026) | $7,534/yr (1.692%, 2025) | Charlotte |
| Transfer tax on the benchmark home Compared as a share of the price. Where the seller pays it, it is a cost of leaving rather than arriving. | $860 (seller pays) | $2,672 (seller pays) | Charlotte |
| Rent control A cap protects a sitting tenant and does nothing for the next lease, so neither column is simply better. | Forbidden by state law | Forbidden by state law | Not directly comparable |
Charlotte: About 0.70% of market value. Charlotte levies 0.7857%: Mecklenburg County's 49.27¢ plus the City's 29.30¢ per $100, but against a value frozen at the 1 January 2023 revaluation. North Carolina measures that gap itself: the Department of Revenue certifies Mecklenburg's assessment level at 88.78% of sale price, which is how it publishes an effective county rate of 0.4374% against a nominal 0.4927%. The next revaluation takes effect 1 January 2027, and it will move assessments to what houses are worth then, not to what you paid. Hialeah: About 1.69% of what you pay for the house, which is lower than the 18.6468 mills charged here, and the difference is Florida's homestead exemption rather than any assessment lag. The state assesses at full market value and a purchase resets the assessment to the price. What there is instead is an exemption: $25,000 of taxable value comes off for every taxing authority and a second slice comes off for all of them except the school district, which levies 6.4990 of the 18.6468. That second slice was $25,000 through the 2024 tax roll and has been adjusted for inflation every 1 January since, under the 2024 amendment to Article VII section 6 of the state constitution, so it is now somewhat more than $25,000. The figures here use the base amount, because the Department of Revenue sends the adjusted figure to the county property appraisers rather than publishing it. The difference is worth a few dollars a year on a bill, and the county property appraiser can tell you the amount in force. A homesteaded buyer's first-year bill is therefore about $7,534 on the $445,331 typical home value here. Hialeah runs its own fire department, so it pays none of the county's 2.3965-mill Fire Rescue district levy. One of only five municipalities in Miami-Dade in that position, and worth more than most municipal rates on this table. The exemption is not automatic: you file for it with the Miami-Dade Property Appraiser by 1 March of the year after you buy. The seller's tax bill is not a guide to yours. Save Our Homes caps a homesteaded property's assessed value at 3% growth a year, and that cap resets to full market value the January after the sale, so a long-tenured owner can be taxed on a fraction of what you will be taxed on for the same house. Ask the property appraiser what the assessment would be at your purchase price, not what the current bill is.
How safe each city is, by the numbers it publishes
Police-reported figures for the most recent year each force or statistics agency has released. Rates describe a whole city or metro area, and the spread between neighbourhoods inside one city is usually wider than the gap between the two cities.
| Measure | Charlotte | Hialeah | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crime Severity Index Statistics Canada's weighted index for the metropolitan area, where 100 is Canada in 2006. American cities have no equivalent series. | Not published | Not published | Not directly comparable |
| Violent crime per 100,000 | 607 (2025) | 178 (2025) | Hialeah |
| Property crime per 100,000 | 3,639 (2025) | 1,417 (2025) | Hialeah |
| Homicides Counts, not rates, and a single year in a small city moves a long way on chance alone. What each figure covers is under the table. | 96 (2025) | 3 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
CMPD's 15 January 2026 year-end report put overall crime down 9% in 2025, violent crime down 21% (5,852 offenses versus 7,436 in 2024) and property crime down 6%, with homicides falling from 110 to 96, robberies down 24% and vehicle thefts down from 7,442 to 5,960. Homicides had been above 100 a year since 2020, so 2025 was the first clear drop in several years; the August 2025 killing of a passenger on the LYNX Blue Line kept transit safety in the news despite the citywide numbers.
What the rates cover: 5,852 violent offenses (UCR summary definitions) reported by CMPD for 2025, divided by the 964,784 city population estimate. CMPD's jurisdiction is the city plus unincorporated Mecklenburg County, so the true rate per resident is slightly lower.
Homicides: 96 homicides in 2025 versus 110 in 2024, about 10 per 100,000 on the city population; CMPD reports a 79% clearance rate.
Down for violent crime, and down for property crime by less than the FBI's totals suggest. On the FBI CDE's counts violent offenses went from 474 in 2022 to 431 in 2023, 415 in 2024 and 412 in 2025, about 210, 187, 178 and 178 per 100,000 on each year's Vintage 2025 population, and January to July 2026 brought 192 against 246 in the same months of 2025, a fall of 22%, mostly in aggravated assaults (165 against 214). Robberies halved, from 66 in 2022 to 31 in 2025. The CDE's property totals fell from 4,329 in 2022 to 3,273 in 2025, but about 500 of that fall is motor vehicle thefts the FBI's series stopped carrying in October 2023; without them property offenses went from 3,801 in 2022 to 3,621 in 2023, 3,610 in 2024 and 3,266 in 2025, a fall of 14% over three years, with larceny down from 3,565 to 3,018. FDLE's file, which kept counting car thefts, has them falling too, from 541 in 2022 and 566 in 2023 to 488 in 2024 and 337 in 2025. January to July 2026 property offenses (1,969) were level with 2025 (1,962). The CDE counts were read on 2 October 2026 from a feed last refreshed on 15 September 2026, whose August 2026 property count (139, about half a normal month) and September figures (none) are incomplete and are not used.
What the rates cover: Computed: 412 violent offenses (murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault) in the FBI Crime Data Explorer's summarized data for the Hialeah Police Department (ORI FL0130400) in calendar 2025, divided by the 230,968 Vintage 2025 estimate for July 2025; on the CDE's own agency population of 238,769 the rate is 173. The department has reported to the FBI through the incident-based system since January 2021 and the CDE has every month from then to August 2026. 2025 is the year the Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville, Port St. Lucie and St. Petersburg profiles use. That is half Miami's 359, below Tampa's 376, St. Petersburg's 502 and Jacksonville's 514, and above Port St. Lucie's 130 and Cape Coral's 122 for 2023. Aggravated assault is 356 of the 412. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement's incident-based (FIBRS) file, which feeds the FBI and counts somewhat more broadly (its forcible sex offenses include fondling), has 432 violent offenses for the department in 2025, about 187 per 100,000.
Homicides: 3 murders and nonnegligent manslaughters in 2025 in the FBI CDE, about 1.3 per 100,000 on the city population; FDLE's file also has 3. The CDE series is 12 in 2021, 6 in 2022, 6 in 2023, 2 in 2024, 3 in 2025 and 2 in January to August 2026. Miami had 26 in 2025, Tampa 17, St. Petersburg 9 and Port St. Lucie 4.
Winters, summers and what the weather can do to a house
| Measure | Charlotte | Hialeah | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| January mean | 5.6 °C | 19.7 °C | Not directly comparable |
| July mean | 26.7 °C | 28.5 °C | Not directly comparable |
| Precipitation a year | 1,107 mm | 1,852 mm | Not directly comparable |
| Snowfall a year | 9 cm | 0 cm | Not directly comparable |
| Sunshine a year | 2,821 hours | 3,154 hours | Hialeah |
NOAA 1991-2020 normals for Charlotte Douglas International Airport (station USW00013881): January mean 42.1F, July mean 80.1F, annual mean 61.4F, 43.60 in of precipitation, 3.5 in of snow. July is the warmest month at 80.1F, ahead of August's 78.6F. The set this file carried until September 2026 was an older normal under the 1991-2020 label: a degree low in January and in July, and a fifth high on snow. Sunshine hours are the older 1961-1990 NCDC means (2,821 hours, 62% of possible) since the 1991-2020 normals do not include sunshine.
Hazards: Humid subtropical: long hot summers with regular thunderstorms, mild winters with occasional ice storms that close the city for a day or two, and remnant tropical systems (Hugo in 1989 hit Charlotte directly; Helene in 2024 devastated the mountains two hours west but mostly spared Charlotte). Flash flooding along creeks and summer heat indexes above 100F are the routine risks; wildfire smoke is rare.
NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for the Hialeah cooperative station (USC00083909), about 3.8 miles south-southeast of the city's center and about half a mile outside its southern limit. It is used rather than Miami International Airport (USW00012839), 5.5 miles south, because it is closer and has a complete set of 1991-2020 monthly and annual normals for temperature, precipitation and snowfall. Its temperature normals rest on 27 to 29 years of the 30 and meet NCEI's standard completeness in every month; five months of its precipitation normals (April and July to October) are flagged representative, from 21 to 23 years, while the airport's precipitation rests on all 30. The nearer Opa-locka airport (USW00012882, 2.9 miles) has no snowfall normal and only 18 to 23 years in any element. January mean 67.4F, July mean 83.3F, annual mean 76.6F, 72.93 in of precipitation and 0.0 in of snow. August is the warmest month at 83.5F, with a mean high of 90.1F; January's mean low is 59.1F. September (11.53 in) and June (11.45 in) are the wettest months, June through September bring 40.88 in, 56% of the year, and May through October 76%; January (2.03 in) is the driest. The normals count 91.0 days a year at 90F or above, 0.2 at 100F and none at or below freezing. Converted here to 19.7 C, 28.5 C, 1,852 mm and 0 cm. Miami International, whose normals the Miami profile stores, is a little warmer and drier: 68.6F in January, 84.1F in July and 67.41 in a year, with 91.4 days at 90F. Hialeah's January is the second warmest of the Florida cities this site compares after Miami's, and its rain is the most of any of them. Sunshine is Miami's: the normals carry none, and the 3,154 hours stored here, 70% of possible with 74 clear days, are Current Results' figure for Miami from NCDC's 1961-1990 Comparative Climatic Data, the source of the other US profiles' sunshine hours; Current Results lists no Hialeah station.
Hazards: Hurricanes, rain flooding and heat. The last hurricane to bring hurricane-force gusts was Irma, which came ashore at Cudjoe Key and then Marco Island on 10 September 2017, well to the southwest: nearly every inland station in the Miami-Dade and Broward metro area reported sustained winds just below hurricane force, Opa-locka Airport, 2.9 miles north of the city's center, recorded 56 kt (64 mph) sustained with a gust of 74 kt (85 mph), Miami International a gust of 63 kt (72 mph), and about 1,000 homes in Miami-Dade had major damage (National Hurricane Center). That 72 mph gust is the airport's strongest since 2010, and it had 5.18 in of rain that day. Rain is the more frequent problem in a flat, low city: the airport's wettest day since 2010 was 9.70 in on 22 May 2012, and it had 7.53 in on 15 November 2023 and 6.25 in on 12 June 2024. FEMA's flood map puts City Hall in zone AH, a special flood hazard area for shallow ponding, with a base flood elevation of 8 ft (panel 12086C0284L, effective 11 September 2009), so flood insurance can be a lender's requirement well inland from the coast. Heat: 91.0 days a year at 90F or above on the Hialeah normals; the airport recorded 139 such days in 2023, the most since 2010, and 115 in 2026 through 29 September, and reached 100F (37.8 C) on 18 August 2026, its only reading that high since 2010. Cold is brief: the airport's lowest reading since 2010 is 35F, on 10 January 2010 and again on 1 February 2026, and the normals count no nights at or below freezing.
What people earn and what the government takes
| Measure | Charlotte | Hialeah | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $86,416 USD (2024) | $57,151 USD (2024) | Charlotte |
| Unemployment rate | 3.7% (June 2026) | 3.7% (July 2026) | Even |
| Sales tax | 8.25% | 7% | Hialeah |
| Top marginal income tax Federal plus provincial or state. The American figure leaves out payroll taxes and the cost of health insurance, both of which a Canadian household covers through the tax it pays here. | 41.25% | 37% | Hialeah |
| Income tax on $100,000, single filer Computed from each jurisdiction's brackets at a single filer's $100,000 and rounded to the dollar, so a gap of a dollar is rounding rather than tax. Two cities in one province or state are shown as Even, because there the two cells describe the same tax and whatever separates them is method. | $17,158 USD | $13,449 USD | Hialeah |
BLS counted 1,413,000 nonfarm jobs in the Charlotte MSA in June 2026, up 1.6% on the year, with construction (+9.0%) and education and health (+3.5%) growing fastest and manufacturing (-3.6%) and information (-5.8%) shrinking. Financial activities employ 128,500, a much larger share than in most metros of this size; average weekly wages in Q4 2025 were $1,515 against $1,569 nationally.
Main sectors: Banking and financial services (Bank of America HQ, Truist, Wells Fargo east coast hub), Professional and business services, Trade, transportation and logistics (CLT hub, distribution), Health care (Atrium Health, Novant Health), Construction and manufacturing (energy, motorsports).
North Carolina's flat rate drops in steps: 4.25% (2025), 3.99% (2026), with further cuts after 2026 tied to revenue triggers. Mecklenburg property tax is separate and was revalued in 2023.
BLS counted 1,349,400 nonfarm jobs in the Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall metropolitan division, which is Miami-Dade County, in August 2026 (not seasonally adjusted, preliminary), up 6,200 or 0.5% on the year. Professional and business services (+5,300, or 2.5%, to 221,300), private education and health services (+4,600, or 2.0%, to 229,600), leisure and hospitality (+2,900, or 1.9%, to 153,400) and wholesale trade (+1,500, or 1.8%, to 82,800) added the most, while financial activities lost 5,100 (-5.0%, to 96,700), government 1,100 and transportation, warehousing and utilities 1,000. Trade, transportation and utilities is the largest supersector at 324,900, 24% of the county's jobs. The City's 2025 financial report lists its ten principal employers, led by Palmetto General Hospital (1,635), the City (1,492), UPS (1,119) and Hialeah Hospital (1,032), at 8,995 jobs, 7.8% of employment in the city on the City's count; six of the ten carry exactly the headcount they had in 2016, so the list has not been recounted for most of them. Most residents work elsewhere in the county: 61.8% of the city's workers (74,100 of 119,984) worked outside Hialeah in 2024, but only 9.8% (11,754) outside Miami-Dade. 13.2% worked from home, and the mean commute for the rest was 30 minutes, with 11.4% spending an hour or more (ACS 2024 1-year, B08007, B08008, B08013, B08101 and B08303).
Main sectors: Health care: Palmetto General Hospital (1,635 staff) is the city's largest employer, and Hialeah Hospital (1,032), Larkin Community Hospital's Palm Springs campus (683) and La Colonia Medical Centers (527) are also among its ten largest, in a county sector (private education and health services, 229,600 jobs) that added 4,600 jobs over the year, Shipping, wholesale and warehousing: United Parcel Service (1,119) is the third-largest employer, in a city beside Miami International Airport; Miami-Dade's wholesale trade employs 82,800 and its transportation, warehousing and utilities 98,400, Groceries and retail: Publix (771), Fresco y Más (741) and Sedano's (545) among the ten largest employers, the many independent shops and supermarkets on the main streets that Wikipedia describes, and Westland Mall, in a county with 143,700 retail jobs, City government: the City of Hialeah (1,492, down from 1,755 in 2016), which runs its own police, fire department, library and free bus service, Light industry: the garment and manufacturing plants that made Hialeah an industrial city in the 1970s and 1980s have mostly gone, replaced in part by electronics and technology businesses (Wikipedia); Miami-Dade's manufacturing employs 46,800, 3.5% of its jobs.
Property tax is the local levy that matters. Tax Foundation puts Florida's effective property tax rate on owner-occupied homes at 0.78%, and a homestead exemption takes as much as $50,000 off a permanent residence's taxable value and brings the Save Our Homes limit on how fast its assessment can rise (Florida Department of Revenue). A property in the City of Hialeah (Miami-Dade millage code 0400) paid 18.6468 mills for 2025 on the Miami-Dade Property Appraiser's adopted chart, down from 18.6638 in 2024: the City's own 6.3018 plus the 12.3450 of school, county and regional levies every municipality in the county pays. Hialeah runs its own fire department and its own library, so it pays neither the county Fire Rescue district's 2.3965 mills nor the library district's 0.2812. The City has held its rate at 6.3018 for at least ten years while taxable value rose 11.0% in fiscal 2025 to $22.2 billion (City of Hialeah financial report), and the appraiser's proposed 2026 table keeps it there, for a total of 18.6134. Miami-Dade is also the one Florida county with its own deed tax: 60 cents per $100 rather than the statewide 70, plus a 45-cent surtax that is not due on a transfer of a single-family dwelling only (Florida Department of Revenue), so a house at Hialeah's typical value of $445,331 carries about $2,672 and a condominium or duplex at the same price about $4,676, the seller's by convention. Zillow's typical home value for the city was $445,331 in June 2026, down 1.5% on the year, and its observed rent $2,374; the bills, insurance and flood exposure that follow belong to the housing layer.
Whether you need a car
| Measure | Charlotte | Hialeah | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| System | Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS): LYNX Blue Line light rail (19 miles, Uptown to UNC Charlotte and I-485/South Blvd), CityLYNX Gold Line streetcar, local and express buses | Miami-Dade County's Department of Transportation and Public Works runs Metrobus across the city and Metrorail's Green Line, which stops at Okeechobee and Hialeah stations inside the city and at the Tri-Rail and Metrorail Transfer Station on its southern edge; Tri-Rail, the commuter railroad to Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, stops at the transfer station and at Hialeah Market (Wikipedia). The City runs its own free bus service, Hialeah Transit, which in 2023 ran two routes, Flamingo and Marlin, with a free on-demand service through the Freebee app from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays and 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. on weekends, most of its cost covered by a county half-penny tax (NBC 6 South Florida). By road the city is bounded or crossed by Interstate 75, the Palmetto Expressway (State Road 826), the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike, Okeechobee Road (US 27) and the Gratigny Parkway (Wikipedia). | Not directly comparable |
| Commute by public transit | 2.3% (2024) | 1.4% (2024) | Charlotte |
| Walk or cycle to work | 2.4% (2024) | 2.3% (2024) | Charlotte |
| Airport | Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT), 53.6 million passengers in 2025, second busiest year after 58.8 million in 2024; an American Airlines hub where about 65% of passengers connect. | Miami International Airport (MIA), about 5.4 miles south of the city's center, handled 55,314,661 passengers in 2025, 1.1% below 2024's record 55,926,566 (Wikipedia, from the airport's traffic reports). Tri-Rail, from the Tri-Rail and Metrorail Transfer Station on the city's southern edge, connects the city to it and north to West Palm Beach (Wikipedia). | Not directly comparable |
CATS carried about 15.7 million passenger trips in calendar 2024, up 11% on 2023 but still only about 65% of 2019 levels; bus ridership has lost roughly 65% of riders since 2013 while the Blue Line was at about 70% of its 2019 ridership (WFAE, February 2025). A November 2025 referendum passed 52.3% to 47.7% and adds a 1 cent sales tax from July 2026 expected to raise about $19.4 billion over 30 years, split 40% roads, 40% rail and 20% bus; the Red Line commuter rail to Lake Norman comes first, then the Silver Line light rail to the airport. A state audit in August 2026 estimated 45% of riders do not pay fares.
Miami-Dade's transit system carried 81,459,917 unlinked trips in 2025 on the National Transit Database's monthly ridership file (Federal Transit Administration): 55.6 million on Metrobus, 15.0 million on Metrorail, 7.8 million on the Metromover downtown, 290,161 on its new bus rapid transit and the rest on demand-response, vanpool and commuter bus service. That is 20% below the 102.1 million of 2019 and 4.3% below 2024's 85.2 million, and January to August 2026 ran 1.3% below the same months of 2025. The Miami profile's 80.8 million is APTA's count for the same year. Tri-Rail carried 4,552,250 commuter rail trips in 2025, level with 2024 and above 2019's 4,495,039 (same file). The City's own buses do not report monthly to the NTD; in October 2023 its transit manager put them at almost 30,000 riders a month, 11,000 of them on the on-demand service (NBC 6 South Florida).
Health care, schools and what each city is like
Health care
Care is paid for through employer or individual private insurance, Medicare and Medicaid (North Carolina expanded Medicaid in December 2023), and uninsured adults still face full charges at hospitals. Two systems dominate: Atrium Health (part of Advocate Health, with Carolinas Medical Center as the region's Level I trauma centre and a new Wake Forest University School of Medicine campus in Charlotte) and Novant Health (Presbyterian Medical Center); primary care and specialist wait times run weeks rather than months, and costs depend far more on your plan than on the provider.
Education
UNC Charlotte enrolled a record 32,207 students in fall 2025 and is the city's main research university; Davidson College, Queens University, Johnson C. Smith University and Central Piedmont Community College round out the options. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is a single county-wide district of roughly 140,000 students with a large magnet lottery system and a sizeable charter sector; enrollment fell to its lowest level since 2010-11 in 2025-26, and school quality varies sharply by neighbourhood.
Living there
Charlotte is a banking city that grew fast and recently: most of what you see was built after 1990, the Uptown skyline is compact and quiet after office hours, and daily life runs through car-oriented suburbs like Ballantyne, University City and the Lake Norman towns. South End and NoDa along the Blue Line are where the walkable apartment-and-brewery growth has concentrated. Summers are hot and humid, traffic on I-77 and I-485 is the main complaint, and the city is still working out what transit, schools and housing it wants to be as it passes a million residents.
Health care
Care is paid for through employer or marketplace insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, and Florida is one of the ten states that have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (KFF). The City of Hialeah's uninsured rate was 15.1% in 2024 (35,490 of 234,398, ACS 2024 1-year), above Miami-Dade's 12.4%, Florida's 10.9% and the national 8.2%. The city has two acute care hospitals, Hialeah Hospital and Palmetto General Hospital, which Steward Health Care bought from Tenet in August 2021 and lost in its bankruptcy: a court approved their sale to Healthcare Systems of America on 25 October 2024, and Hialeah Hospital is now owned by Medical Properties Trust and operated by that company (Wikipedia). Palmetto General is the city's largest employer (1,635 staff) and Hialeah Hospital its fourth (1,032), with Larkin Community Hospital's Palm Springs campus (683) and La Colonia Medical Centers (527) also among the ten largest (City of Hialeah). Wikipedia gives Hialeah Hospital 378 beds from the hospital's own site of 2015; this file did not verify a current bed count for either hospital, or a wait time figure for primary or specialist care.
Education
Miami-Dade County Public Schools runs the city's public schools. The district counted 18,910 fewer students on the first days of 2026-27 than at the end of 2025-26, a first-day snapshot it says the October count will refine, with private school vouchers, the cost of living and immigration enforcement among the reasons given; it had already closed or consolidated nine schools, and the 27 more it has put under review or reassessment do not include any named in Hialeah (WLRN; CBS News Miami). Wikipedia's list of the schools serving the city includes Hialeah Senior High, Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High and Westland Hialeah Senior High, with the José Martí MAST 6-12 magnet academy and the City of Hialeah Educational Academy, a charter school (Wikipedia). Miami Dade College has had a Hialeah campus since 1980. The City runs its own public library system, founded in 1924, a year before the city was incorporated, and outside the county's library district, which is why the county library levy does not appear on Hialeah tax bills (Wikipedia; Miami-Dade Property Appraiser).
Living there
Hialeah is the most Cuban city in the United States. It was laid out in 1921 by the aviator Glenn Curtiss and the cattleman James Bright on a prairie between Biscayne Bay and the Everglades, incorporated in 1925, the year Hialeah Park's racetrack opened, and became a working-class city after 1959 as successive waves of Cuban exiles settled there (Wikipedia). On the ACS 2024 1-year estimates 95.3% of its people are Hispanic, 72.7% are of Cuban origin and 77.1% were born outside the United States, against 55.3% for Miami-Dade; 91.9% speak Spanish at home and 59.5% speak English less than very well (2020-2024 5-year). It is dense, about 10,700 people per square mile of land, and one of the few places in the county with a street grid numbered separately from Miami's. It has the second-lowest household income of the Florida cities this site compares ($57,151, above only Tallahassee's) and, after Miami and Orlando, the lowest share of owners (42.8%), but its unemployment is low (2.3% in July 2026) and most of its workers have jobs inside Miami-Dade. It is also older than its reputation, with a median age of 46.0. It barely grew from 2020 to 2025 (3.5%) and lost people in the last year, as Miami-Dade did. Violent crime in 2025 was 178 per 100,000, half Miami's, with three homicides. Its own government does more than most: it runs its fire department, its library and free buses, and its property tax rate has not moved from 6.3018 mills in a decade.
Where each city wins, and where it loses
Both cities price in US dollars and both housing figures use Freddie Mac's August rate of 6.67%, so the bills net directly, but the two headlines are different instruments. Charlotte's is the Canopy MLS median of what sold inside the city, $430,000 in July 2026, 2.3% below a year earlier; Canopy's single-family median for the Charlotte region was $420,000. Hialeah's is Zillow's typical home value for the city across all homes, $445,331 in June 2026, 1.5% below a year earlier, which is the city's row in this site's Miami-Dade table; it models every home rather than the houses that sold, condominiums included. Against local pay the headlines are about 5.0 times Charlotte's 2024 median household income of $86,416 and about 7.8 times Hialeah's $57,151, a figure with a margin of error of $5,574. At 20% down, Charlotte's $344,000 loan costs $2,213 a month and Hialeah's $356,265 loan $2,292. Property tax is about $3,010 a year in Charlotte, 0.70% of price on a 2023 valuation, against about $7,534 for a homesteaded owner in Hialeah, where a City address pays 18.6468 mills for 2025 on the Miami-Dade Property Appraiser's chart, the City's own 6.3018 among them beside the school board, the county and the regional water districts: an effective 1.69% after Florida's homestead exemption, and about $8,304 without one. Insurance is budgeted at $180 a month in Charlotte and $505 in Hialeah, this site's figure for a mainland Miami-Dade single-family policy, and neither includes flood. The three lines come to about $2,644 and $3,425, roughly 37% and 72% of each city's median household income. The $781 gap is Hialeah's property tax, about $377 a month higher, its insurance, $325 higher, and its mortgage, $79 higher. Rents are on different series and point the same way. RentCafe's August averages for Charlotte were $1,470 for a one-bedroom and $1,781 for a two-bedroom, about 25% of median income for the larger; Zillow's observed rent index for Hialeah, across all homes, was $2,374 in June, about 50%. Neither state allows rent control.
The crime figures are built differently, and Hialeah is lower on each by a wide margin. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police counted 5,852 violent offenses in 2025 on UCR summary definitions, about 607 per 100,000 on the city's 964,784 residents, and 35,112 property offenses, about 3,639. Hialeah's are the FBI's Crime Data Explorer counts for the Hialeah Police Department: 412 violent offenses of murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault, 178 per 100,000 on the Census estimate of 230,968, and 3,273 property offenses, 1,417. That property figure is understated: the FBI's copy stopped carrying most of the department's vehicle thefts in October 2023, 7 for 2025 against 337 in the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's file, and with FDLE's count the rate would be about 1,560, still under half Charlotte's. Charlotte recorded 96 homicides, about 10 per 100,000, against 110 in 2024; Hialeah 3, about 1.3, after 2 in 2024. Violent crime fell in both, faster in Charlotte last year. Charlotte's dropped 21% in 2025, its vehicle thefts went from 7,442 to 5,960, and CMPD reports clearing 79% of its homicides. Hialeah's violent offenses fell from 474 in 2022 to 412 in 2025, its robberies halved over the same years, and the first seven months of 2026 brought 22% fewer than the same months of 2025. CMPD's patch includes unincorporated Mecklenburg, which pushes Charlotte's rates up a little, every rate here is a count divided by a Census estimate, and the Hialeah counts were read on 2 October 2026 from a federal feed that can still be revised.
Hialeah is warmer all year and much wetter. January averages 19.7 C at the Hialeah cooperative station, just outside the city's southern limit, against 5.6 C at Charlotte Douglas, 67.4F against 42.1F, and July 28.5 C against 26.7 C; Charlotte's July is its warmest month, and Hialeah's August is warmer still, with a mean high of 90.1F. Hialeah gets 1,852 mm of precipitation a year, the most of any Florida city this site compares, 56% of it from June to September, against 1,107 mm. Charlotte gets about 8.9 cm of snow a year and an occasional ice storm that closes the city for a day or two; Hialeah gets none, and its normals count no nights at or below freezing. Charlotte records about 2,821 hours of sun on the older 1961-1990 series; that series lists no Hialeah station, and the 3,154 hours stored for it are Miami's. Summer is long and humid in both. Hialeah's normals count 91.0 days a year at or above 32.2 C (90F), and Miami International recorded 139 such days in 2023 and reached 37.8 C (100F) on 18 August 2026, its only reading that high since 2010; Charlotte's routine risks are heat indexes above 100F and flash flooding on its creeks. Hurricanes reach both, in different forms. Hugo hit Charlotte directly in 1989, and Helene devastated the mountains two hours west in 2024 but mostly spared the city. Irma came ashore well to the southwest of Hialeah in September 2017, and Opa-locka Airport, 2.9 miles north of the city's center, recorded a gust of 85 mph; about 1,000 homes in Miami-Dade had major damage. Rain is the more frequent problem in a flat, low city. Miami International's wettest day since 2010 was 9.70 in on 22 May 2012, and FEMA's map puts Hialeah's City Hall in zone AH, a special flood hazard area for shallow ponding with a base flood elevation of 8 ft, so a lender can require flood insurance far from any coast.
Charlotte's households earn far more and its job market is growing faster; Hialeah's is the tighter on the latest figures. On the same unadjusted basis unemployment was 3.6% in the Charlotte metro in June 2026 and 3.9% in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metro, which fell to 3.7% in July; Miami-Dade County's July rate was 2.5% and the City of Hialeah's 2.3%. Charlotte had 1,413,000 nonfarm jobs in June, 1.6% more than a year earlier, with construction up 9.0%. Miami-Dade had 1,349,400 in August, 0.5% more, led by professional and business services and private education and health services, while financial activities lost 5,100. Charlotte is a banking city, with 128,500 jobs in financial activities around Bank of America, Truist and Wells Fargo. Hialeah's largest employers are its two hospitals, Palmetto General with 1,635 staff and Hialeah Hospital with 1,032, the City itself, UPS beside the airport, and its grocers, Publix, Fresco y Más and Sedano's; 61.8% of its workers work outside the city, but only 9.8% outside Miami-Dade. Median household incomes were $86,416 in Charlotte and $57,151 in Hialeah in 2024, the lowest of the Florida cities this site compares and $9,186 below Miami's. The tax story is North Carolina's flat income tax against none. A single filer on $100,000 pays about $17,158 in Charlotte for 2025, $3,709 of it to the state, and $13,449 in Hialeah, and the top combined rate is 41.25% against 37%; North Carolina's rate drops from 4.25% to 3.99% for 2026. Sales tax is 8.25% in Mecklenburg and 7% in Miami-Dade. Property tax runs the other way: Hialeah's is about $4,524 a year higher on these two figures, which North Carolina's 4.25% would take from a single filer at about $119,200 of income, and about $211,000 once the insurance gap is counted too.
Neither is a transit city, though Hialeah has more of one on the map. In 2024, 2.3% of Charlotte workers took transit and 2.4% walked or cycled, against 1.4% and 2.3% in Hialeah; 25% of Charlotte's workers worked from home against 13.2%, and 68.5% of Hialeah's drove alone. CATS carried about 15.7 million trips in 2024, roughly 65% of its 2019 level, on the 19-mile LYNX Blue Line, the Gold Line streetcar and buses, and the 1 cent sales tax collected since July 2026 is to pay for more rail, the Red Line commuter rail to Lake Norman first. Miami-Dade's system carried 81,459,917 trips in 2025, 20% below 2019, and Metrorail's Green Line stops at Okeechobee and Hialeah stations inside the city and at the transfer station on its southern edge, where Tri-Rail runs north to Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. The City also runs free buses of its own, two routes and an on-demand service its transit manager put at almost 30,000 riders a month in October 2023. Even so only 695 of Hialeah's workers rode Metrorail to work in 2024, and the mean commute for those who did not work from home was 30 minutes. The airports are close in size and different in kind. CLT, an American Airlines hub, handled 53.6 million passengers in 2025, about 65% of them connecting. Miami International, about 5.4 miles south of Hialeah's center, handled 55,314,661.
Health coverage is where the state line shows, and Hialeah shows it more than most. North Carolina expanded Medicaid in December 2023. Florida is one of the ten states that have not, its uninsured rate was 10.9% in 2024 against 8.2% nationally, and the City of Hialeah's was 15.1%, above Miami-Dade's 12.4%. Charlotte's systems are Atrium Health, whose Carolinas Medical Center is the region's Level I trauma center, with a new Wake Forest medical school campus, and Novant Health. Hialeah has two acute care hospitals, Palmetto General and Hialeah Hospital, which Steward Health Care bought in 2021 and lost in its bankruptcy; a court approved their sale to Healthcare Systems of America in October 2024. Charlotte's profile puts primary care and specialist waits in weeks; Hialeah's did not verify a wait time or a current bed count. Both school districts are shrinking. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, with roughly 140,000 students, fell to its lowest enrollment since 2010-11 in 2025-26. Miami-Dade County Public Schools, which runs Hialeah's schools, counted 18,910 fewer students on the first days of 2026-27 than at the end of 2025-26, a snapshot the October count will refine, with vouchers, the cost of living and immigration enforcement among the reasons given; none of the 27 schools it has put under review is named in Hialeah. UNC Charlotte enrolled a record 32,207 in fall 2025. Hialeah has a Miami Dade College campus, open since 1980, and the José Martí MAST 6-12 magnet academy, and the City runs its own library system.
What people underestimate is how much of the Hialeah bill sits outside the price, and how differently the two cities are moving. Charlotte added 20,731 residents in 2024-25, the largest numeric gain of any US city, and has grown 10.3% since 2020. Hialeah grew 3.5% from 2020 to 2025 and then lost 2,210 residents in 2024-25, the same year Miami-Dade shrank, in a county whose growth since 2020 has come entirely from abroad, and its typical value fell 1.5% in the year to June 2026. Mecklenburg revalues on 1 January 2027, so Charlotte's $3,010, levied on 2023 values, has further to move. Hialeah's $7,534 is the 2025 millage. The City has held its own 6.3018 mills for at least ten years, and because it runs its own fire department and library it pays neither the county's 2.3965-mill Fire Rescue district nor its 0.2812-mill library levy; the appraiser's proposed 2026 table keeps the City's rate and puts the total at 18.6134. The figure assumes a homestead filed by 1 March of the year after the purchase, and Save Our Homes resets a house's assessment to market value the January after a sale, so the seller's bill is no guide. Then the water. The $505 a month excludes flood, and on the City's own flood layer 90,311 of its 223,109 residents at the 2020 census, about two in five, lived in a FEMA special flood hazard area, 77,666 of them in zone AH, shallow ponding on flat ground well inland. A condominium adds an association fee this site estimates at $850 a month, against $400 in Charlotte. Closing costs differ too. North Carolina's excise tax on the deed is 0.2%, the seller's, about $860 on Charlotte's median; Miami-Dade charges 60 cents per $100 on the deed rather than the statewide 70, about $2,672 on Hialeah's typical value as a house and about $4,676 on a condominium or duplex at the same price, the seller's by convention, and the buyer pays about $1,959 in documentary stamp and intangible tax on a $356,265 loan.
Better here
- Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $2,644 a month on the city's median, roughly 37% of median household income, against about $3,425 and 72% in Hialeah at the same 6.67%.
- Property tax on the median is about $3,010 a year, 0.70% of price, against about $7,534 and an effective 1.69% on Hialeah's homesteaded typical value, and insurance runs $180 a month against $505.
- Median household income was $86,416 in 2024, against $57,151 in Hialeah.
- North Carolina expanded Medicaid in December 2023, where Florida has not and the City of Hialeah's uninsured rate was 15.1% in 2024.
- Nonfarm jobs grew 1.6% in the year to June 2026, against 0.5% in Miami-Dade in the year to August, and the city added 20,731 residents in 2024-25.
- RentCafe's August average for a two-bedroom was $1,781, about 25% of median income, against Zillow's $2,374 for Hialeah, about 50%.
Worse here
- Violent crime ran about 607 per 100,000 in 2025 and there were 96 homicides, about 10 per 100,000, against 178 and about 1.3 in Hialeah.
- Property crime ran about 3,639 per 100,000 in 2025, against 1,417 on the FBI's count for Hialeah, or about 1,560 with the vehicle thefts the FBI's copy leaves out.
- A single filer on $100,000 pays about $17,158 in income tax for 2025, $3,709 of it to North Carolina, against $13,449 of federal tax alone in Hialeah.
- January averages 5.6 C with 8.9 cm of snow a year and the occasional ice storm that closes the city, against 19.7 C and no snow in Hialeah.
- Sales tax is 8.25% in Mecklenburg against 7% in Miami-Dade.
- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools fell to its lowest enrollment since 2010-11 in 2025-26, and Mecklenburg revalues property on 1 January 2027.
Choose Charlotte if
- you want to own for less in dollars and against pay, about 37% of median income against 72%
- you want the faster-growing job market and the higher household incomes
- you may need Medicaid, or work in a job with thin health coverage
- you work in banking, or fly often and want a hub airport
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Better here
- Violent offenses ran 178 per 100,000 in 2025 and there were 3 homicides, about 1.3 per 100,000, against about 607 and 96 in Charlotte.
- Florida levies no income tax, so $100,000 pays $13,449 in federal tax for 2025 and $13,170 for 2026, against about $17,158 in Charlotte for 2025.
- January averages 19.7 C with no snow and no nights at or below freezing in the normals, against 5.6 C and 8.9 cm in Charlotte.
- Unemployment was 2.3% in the City of Hialeah and 2.5% in Miami-Dade in July 2026, and only 9.8% of the city's workers had jobs outside the county.
- Sales tax is 7% in Miami-Dade against 8.25% in Mecklenburg.
- Metrorail stops at two stations inside the city and Tri-Rail at its southern edge, and the City runs free buses of its own.
Worse here
- Property tax on the typical value is about $7,534 a year with a homestead and about $8,304 without one, an effective 1.69%, against about $3,010 in Charlotte, and insurance is $505 a month before flood cover.
- Median household income was $57,151 in 2024, $29,265 below Charlotte's, and mortgage, tax and insurance on the typical home take about 72% of it.
- Florida is one of ten states that have not expanded Medicaid, and the city's uninsured rate was 15.1% in 2024 against 8.2% nationally.
- About two in five residents lived in a FEMA special flood hazard area at the 2020 census on the City's own layer, mostly zone AH, and the insurance figure excludes flood.
- The city lost 2,210 residents in 2024-25, where Charlotte added 20,731, the largest numeric gain of any US city.
- The normals count 91.0 days a year at or above 32.2 C (90F), and Miami International recorded 139 in 2023.
Choose Hialeah if
- you want the lower crime rates of the two, in a city with 3 homicides in 2025
- you earn well, above about $119,200 on these figures, and would rather pay property tax on a house than state income tax on a salary
- you speak Spanish at home or want to, in a city where 91.9% of residents do
- you want a warm winter and will check the flood zone and price a flood policy before you buy
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Charlotte or Hialeah, in short
Is Charlotte or Hialeah cheaper to live in?
Charlotte, to own and to rent, in dollars and much more so against pay. Charlotte's median sale price inside the city was $430,000 in July 2026, and Hialeah's typical home value on Zillow's index $445,331 in June, a measure across every home rather than the houses that sold. Both figures use Freddie Mac's August rate of 6.67%. Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $2,644 a month in Charlotte and $3,425 in Hialeah, roughly 37% of Charlotte's median household income of $86,416 and 72% of Hialeah's $57,151. The mortgages are within $79 of each other; the gap is property tax, about $7,534 a year against $3,010, and insurance, $505 a month against $180, before any flood policy. Rents are on different series: RentCafe's August average for a Charlotte two-bedroom was $1,781, about 25% of median income, and Zillow's Hialeah rent index $2,374 in June, about 50%. Sales tax is 7% in Miami-Dade against 8.25% in Mecklenburg, and Charlotte adds North Carolina's income tax, $3,709 on $100,000 for 2025.
Is Charlotte or Hialeah safer?
Hialeah, on every line, on figures built differently. Its violent crime rate was 178 per 100,000 in 2025 against about 607 in Charlotte, its property crime rate 1,417 against about 3,639, and its homicides 3, about 1.3 per 100,000, against 96, about 10. Hialeah's property figure is understated, because the FBI's copy of its counts dropped most vehicle thefts from October 2023; with the state's count it would be about 1,560. Hialeah's are the FBI's counts for its police department, read on 2 October 2026 and still open to revision; Charlotte's are CMPD's own counts on UCR summary definitions over a patch that includes unincorporated Mecklenburg, which pushes its rates up a little. Both fell: Charlotte's violent crime by 21% in 2025 and its homicides from 110, and Hialeah's violent offenses from 474 in 2022 to 412 in 2025, with 22% fewer in the first seven months of 2026. Every rate here is a count divided by a Census estimate rather than a published rate.
Which has the better job market, Charlotte or Hialeah?
Charlotte's, on growth and pay, though Miami-Dade's unemployment is lower. On the same unadjusted basis unemployment was 3.6% in the Charlotte metro and 3.9% in the Miami metro in June 2026, and the Miami metro's fell to 3.7% in July, with Miami-Dade County at 2.5% and the City of Hialeah at 2.3%. Charlotte had 1,413,000 nonfarm jobs in June, up 1.6% on the year; Miami-Dade had 1,349,400 in August, up 0.5%. Charlotte's base is banking, with 128,500 financial activities jobs; Hialeah's largest employers are its two hospitals, the City, UPS and its grocers, and most of its workers commute elsewhere in Miami-Dade. City median household incomes were $86,416 and $57,151 in 2024, and Charlotte added 20,731 residents in 2024-25 while Hialeah lost 2,210.
Does Florida having no income tax make Hialeah cheaper than Charlotte?
Not for an owner at the two figures unless the income is high. A single filer on $100,000 pays about $17,158 in Charlotte for 2025, $3,709 of it to North Carolina, against $13,449 in federal tax alone in Hialeah, and North Carolina's flat rate drops from 4.25% to 3.99% for 2026. Florida collects more through property: Hialeah's 18.6468 mills take about $7,534 a year on the homesteaded typical value, an effective 1.69%, against about $3,010 on Charlotte's median, 0.70%, a difference of $4,524 a year that North Carolina's 4.25% matches at about $119,200 of income. At Hialeah's median household income of $57,151 the North Carolina tax would be about $1,887, so a median household that owns pays about $2,637 a year more in Hialeah across the two taxes. Counting the whole bill, mortgage and insurance included, Hialeah costs about $781 a month, $9,372 a year, more to hold, which North Carolina's rate would match only at about $233,200 of income. Neither figure counts a flood policy.
Where the figures come from
Housing figures are the ones behind each city's calculators, dated on those pages. The rest are listed here with the date they were retrieved. See the methodology for how facts, estimates and opinion are kept apart.
- Population Growth Holds Steady in Midsized Cities Amid Widespread Slowdown (Vintage 2025 city and town estimates) · US Census Bureau · retrieved Supports: City population, Five-year growth
- 2020 Census, North Carolina: Total Population by Municipality (PL 94-171) · North Carolina General Assembly · retrieved Supports: Five-year growth
- Resident Population in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC (MSA) (CGRPOP) · FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Census Bureau data) · retrieved Supports: Metro population, Five-year growth
- CMPD End of Year Report: Violent, Property and Overall Crime Decrease · Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department · retrieved Supports: Violent crime rate, Property crime rate, Homicides, Crime trend
- NOAA 1991-2020 US Climate Normals, station USW00013881 Charlotte Douglas International Airport (NCEI data service) · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved Supports: January mean, July mean, Annual precipitation, Annual snowfall, January 42.1F, July 80.1F and August 78.6F from the monthly series, and annual mean 61.4F, precipitation 43.60 in and snowfall 3.5 in from dataset=normals-annualseasonal-1991-2020 for the same station
- Average Annual Sunshine in US Cities · Current Results (NCDC Comparative Climatic Data, 1961-1990) · retrieved Supports: Sunshine hours
- Charlotte, NC profile (ACS 2024 1-year), tables B19013 and B08301 · Census Reporter (US Census Bureau ACS) · retrieved Supports: Median household income, Transit commute share, Walk and cycle commute share
- Unemployment Rate in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC (MSA) (CHAR737UR) · FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (BLS LAUS) · retrieved Supports: Unemployment rate
- Charlotte, NC-SC, Area Economic Summary · US Bureau of Labor Statistics · retrieved Supports: Unemployment rate, Main sectors, Labour market
- Important Notice: Mecklenburg County Sales and Use Tax Increase · North Carolina Department of Revenue · retrieved Supports: Sales tax
- Tax Rate Schedules · North Carolina Department of Revenue · retrieved Supports: Top marginal income tax, Income tax on $100,000
- North Carolina Standard Deduction or North Carolina Itemized Deductions · North Carolina Department of Revenue · retrieved Supports: Income tax on $100,000
- 2025 Tax Brackets and Federal Income Tax Rates · Tax Foundation · retrieved Supports: Top marginal income tax, Income tax on $100,000
- CATS sees ridership grow by 11% in last year · WFAE · retrieved Supports: Transit ridership
- In a historic vote, Mecklenburg transit and transportation sales tax wins approval · WFAE · retrieved Supports: Transit ridership, Sales tax
- Rapid Response Special Report: Charlotte Area Transit System · North Carolina Office of the State Auditor · retrieved Supports: Transit ridership, Crime trend
- CLT Welcomes 53.6 Million Passengers in 2025, Second Busiest Year on Record · Charlotte Douglas International Airport · retrieved Supports: Airport passengers
- UNC Charlotte's enrollment surge sets another record · UNC Charlotte University Communications · retrieved Supports: Education
- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools enrollment hits lowest since 2010-11 · WSOC-TV · retrieved Supports: Education
- Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places of 50,000 or More (all states, SUB-EST2025) · US Census Bureau · retrieved Supports: City population, Five-year growth, Violent crime rate, Property crime rate, Homicides, Crime trend, Character, Hialeah city 223,143 (April 2020 base), 222,417 (2020), 220,961 (2021), 225,281 (2022), 230,169 (2023), 233,178 (2024) and 230,968 (2025); Miami city 489,812; Hialeah Gardens 22,777; Miami-Dade County 2,802,029; national and Florida ranks and the 129 cities of 200,000 or more
- Annual Resident Population Estimates and Components of Change for Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas and Their Counties: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2025 (CBSA-EST2025-ALLDATA) · US Census Bureau · retrieved Supports: Metro population, Five-year growth, Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach MSA (CBSA 33100) 6,138,329 (April 2020 base) and 6,391,072 (2025), 8th of 387 metros; Miami-Dade County 2,701,762 and 2,802,029, with its births, deaths and migration by year
- 2025 Gazetteer Files: Places, Florida · US Census Bureau · retrieved Supports: point, City population, Character, Climate normals, Airport passengers, Hialeah city: 21.592 sq mi of land, 1.224 sq mi of water, internal point 25.869941, -80.302865; Miami city 35.997 sq mi of land
- Hialeah, Florida (history, demographics, economy, education, library, transportation) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: City population, Main sectors, Transit system, Education, Character
- Crime Data Explorer summarized agency data, Hialeah Police Department (FL0130400): violent crime, property crime, homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft and arson, January 2021 to September 2026 · FBI · retrieved Supports: Violent crime rate, Property crime rate, Homicides, Crime trend, Character, 2025: 412 violent (3 + 22 + 31 + 356), 3,273 property (236 + 3,018 + 7 + 12); 2022 to 2024 violent 474, 431 and 415, property 4,329, 4,017 and 3,632; motor vehicle thefts 528, 396, 22 and 7 for 2022 to 2025; agency population 238,769 for 2025; data refreshed 15 September 2026
- FIBRS offense data by agency and month, 2021 to August 2026 · Florida Department of Law Enforcement · retrieved Supports: Violent crime rate, Property crime rate, Homicides, Crime trend, Hialeah Police Department, every month of 2021 to 2025 and January to August 2026: 432 violent and 3,667 property offenses in 2025; motor vehicle thefts 541, 566, 488 and 337 for 2022 to 2025; homicides 3 in 2025
- US Climate Normals 1991-2020, station USC00083909 Hialeah (cooperative station) (Access Data Service) · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved Supports: January mean, July mean, Annual precipitation, Annual snowfall, Climate normals, Climate hazards, January 67.4F, July 83.3F and August 83.5F, the monthly highs, lows, rain and snow with their completeness flags and years, and annual mean 76.6F, 72.93 in of precipitation, 0.0 in of snow, 91.0 days at 90F, 0.2 at 100F and none at freezing from dataset=normals-annualseasonal-1991-2020 for the same station
- US Climate Normals 1991-2020, station USW00012839 Miami International Airport (Access Data Service) · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved Supports: Climate normals, January 68.6F, July 84.1F, 67.41 in of precipitation from 30 years, 91.4 days at 90F
- US Climate Normals 1991-2020, station USW00012882 Miami Opa Locka Airport (Access Data Service) · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved Supports: Climate normals, No snowfall normal; temperature and precipitation normals flagged representative, from 18 to 23 years
- NCEI data search, normals-monthly-1991-2020 stations within 26.0N to 25.7N and 80.45W to 80.15W · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved Supports: Climate normals, USC00083909 Hialeah at 25.8175N, 80.2858W, USW00012839 at 25.7906N, 80.3164W and USW00012882 at 25.9069N, 80.2803W among ten stations, the rest farther or precipitation only
- Global Historical Climatology Network daily summaries, Miami International Airport (USW00012839), 2010-2026 · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards, 72.0 mph gust and 5.18 in of rain on 10 September 2017; 9.70 in on 22 May 2012, 7.53 in on 15 November 2023, 6.25 in on 12 June 2024; 139 days at or above 90F in 2023 and 115 in 2026 through 29 September; 100F on 18 August 2026; 35F on 10 January 2010 and 1 February 2026
- Tropical Cyclone Report: Hurricane Irma (AL112017) · NOAA National Hurricane Center · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards, Landfalls near Cudjoe Key at 1300 UTC and Marco Island at 1930 UTC 10 September 2017; inland Miami-Dade and Broward stations just below hurricane force; Opa Locka Airport 56 kt sustained and 74 kt gust at 1903 UTC; Miami International gust 63 kt; about 1,000 Miami-Dade homes with major damage
- National Flood Hazard Layer: flood hazard zones and FIRM panels at Hialeah City Hall · Federal Emergency Management Agency · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards, Zone AH with a static base flood elevation of 8 ft; panel 12086C0284L, effective 11 September 2009 (layer 3)
- ACS 2024 1-year tables B19013, B25003 and B01002 for Hialeah and the other Florida cities this site compares, Miami-Dade County, the Miami MSA, Florida and the US · Census Reporter API (US Census Bureau ACS) · retrieved Supports: Median household income, Character
- ACS 2024 1-year table B08301 (means of transportation) for Hialeah city, and the 2020-2024 5-year table for Hialeah city and Miami-Dade County · Census Reporter API (US Census Bureau ACS) · retrieved Supports: Transit commute share, Walk and cycle commute share, Labour market
- ACS 2024 1-year table B08301 (means of transportation) for Miami-Dade County · Census Reporter API (US Census Bureau ACS) · retrieved Supports: Transit commute share, Walk and cycle commute share
- ACS 2024 1-year tables B08007 (place of work by county), B08008 (place of work by place), B08013 (aggregate travel time), B08101 (means of transportation by age) and B08303 (travel time to work) for Hialeah city and Miami-Dade County · Census Reporter API (US Census Bureau ACS) · retrieved Supports: Labour market, Character
- ACS 2024 1-year table B27001 (health insurance coverage) for Hialeah city, Miami-Dade County, the Miami MSA, Florida and the US · Census Reporter API (US Census Bureau ACS) · retrieved Supports: Health care
- ACS 2024 1-year tables B03001 (Hispanic or Latino origin by specific origin) and B05002 (place of birth by nativity) for Hialeah, Miami, Miami-Dade County and Florida · Census Reporter API (US Census Bureau ACS) · retrieved Supports: Character, Hialeah: 95.3% Hispanic or Latino, 72.7% Cuban, 77.1% foreign-born
- ACS 2020-2024 5-year table C16001 (language spoken at home) for Hialeah, Miami and Miami-Dade County · Census Reporter API (US Census Bureau ACS) · retrieved Supports: Character, Hialeah: 91.9% speak Spanish at home, 59.5% speak English less than very well; the 1-year release has no language table for the city
- Local Area Unemployment Statistics, Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL MSA (LAUMT123310000000003), Miami-Dade County (LAUCN120860000000003) and Hialeah city (LAUCT123000000000003), not seasonally adjusted · US Bureau of Labor Statistics · retrieved Supports: Unemployment rate, Character
- Current Employment Statistics, Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL Metropolitan Division: total nonfarm (SMU12331240000000001), construction, manufacturing, supersectors (SMU1233124xx00000001), wholesale, retail, transportation and local government · US Bureau of Labor Statistics · retrieved Supports: Main sectors, Labour market
- FY2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, including Principal Employers (Current Year and Nine Years Ago), Property Tax Rates (Direct and Overlapping) and Assessed Values · City of Hialeah (filed with the Florida Auditor General) · retrieved Supports: Main sectors, Labour market, Tax notes, Health care, Character, Principal employers 2025: Palmetto General Hospital 1,635, City of Hialeah 1,492, United Parcel Service 1,119, Hialeah Hospital 1,032, Publix 771, Fresco y Mas 741, Larkin Community Hospital Palm Springs Campus 683, Sedano's 545, La Colonia Medical Centers 527, Bullet Line 450 (7.79% of city employment together); the 2016 list; a City operating rate of 6.3018 in every year from 2016 to 2025; taxable value $22.18 billion in 2025, up 11.0%
- Discretionary Sales Surtax Information for Calendar Year 2026 (DR-15DSS) · Florida Department of Revenue · retrieved Supports: Sales tax, Miami-Dade 1%: 0.5% from January 1, 1992 and 0.5% from January 1, 2003, no expiration
- Discretionary Sales Surtax · Florida Department of Revenue · retrieved Supports: Sales tax, The surtax applies to the first $5,000 of the sales amount of an item of tangible personal property
- Florida Tax Rates & Rankings · Tax Foundation · retrieved Supports: Top marginal income tax, Income tax on $100,000, Tax notes
- 2026 Tax Brackets and Federal Income Tax Rates · Tax Foundation · retrieved Supports: Top marginal income tax, Income tax on $100,000
- Property Tax Exemptions and Additional Benefits · Florida Department of Revenue · retrieved Supports: Tax notes
- 2025 adopted millage rates and 2026 proposed millage rate table · Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser · retrieved Supports: Tax notes, Education, Millage code 0400 Hialeah: 18.6468 for 2025 and 18.6638 for 2024, with a City rate of 6.3018 and blank Fire Rescue and Library columns (as carried in lib/metro-miami/market.ts); 18.6134 proposed for 2026 at the same City rate
- Documentary Stamp Tax · Florida Department of Revenue · retrieved Supports: Tax notes, 60 cents per $100 in Miami-Dade against 70 cents elsewhere, plus a 45-cent surtax not due on a document that transfers only a single-family dwelling
- Zillow Home Value Index and Observed Rent Index, city files, June 2026 · Zillow Research · retrieved Supports: Tax notes, Hialeah all-homes value $445,331, down 1.5% on the year, and observed rent $2,374 (as carried in lib/metro-miami/market.ts)
- Monthly Module Adjusted Data Release, complete monthly ridership with adjustments and estimates (County of Miami-Dade, NTD 40034, and South Florida Regional Transportation Authority, NTD 40077) · Federal Transit Administration, National Transit Database (via data.transportation.gov) · retrieved Supports: Transit ridership
- Getting around Hialeah? The city offers free public transportation options · NBC 6 South Florida · retrieved Supports: Transit system, Transit ridership
- Miami International Airport (annual passenger traffic, 2000 to 2025) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Airport passengers
- Status of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions · KFF · retrieved Supports: Health care
- Steward Health Care (Florida hospitals and their 2024 sale) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Health care, Hialeah Hospital and Palmetto General Hospital bought from Tenet in August 2021; sale to Healthcare Systems of America approved on October 25, 2024
- Hialeah Hospital · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Health care, 378 beds (from the hospital's site, 2015); owned by Medical Properties Trust and operated by Healthcare Systems of America
- Miami-Dade County School Board to review future of 27 schools amid sharp enrollment decline · WLRN · retrieved Supports: Education
- Miami-Dade schools report nearly 19,000-student enrollment drop on first day, district says count is not final · CBS News Miami · retrieved Supports: Education
- More choice, steady sales define Charlotte's July housing market · Canopy Realtor® Association / Canopy MLS · retrieved Supports: City of Charlotte median sale price of $430,000 in July 2026, down 2.3% year over year, with the year-to-date median also $430,000, Charlotte region median sale price of $410,000, up 1.1% year over year, and Mecklenburg County's $468,500, up 2.0%, City of Charlotte inventory of 3,754 homes, up 15.8%, at 3.7 months of supply against 3.2 a year earlier, City of Charlotte days on market of 40, against 38 a year earlier, Regional medians by type: single-family $420,000, townhome $349,990 and condominium $292,000, all of which are regional rather than city figures
- Charlotte, NC average rent and rent trends, August 2026 · RentCafe / Yardi Matrix · retrieved Supports: Average Charlotte apartment rent of $1,672 across 949 sq ft, down 0.92% year over year, Average rents of $1,377 studio, $1,470 one-bedroom, $1,781 two-bedroom and $2,117 three-bedroom
- Charlotte multifamily market insights, 2026 · Northmarq · retrieved Supports: Charlotte apartment vacancy of 6.2%, Approximately 18,000 units under construction, a 6.2% expansion of inventory, More than half of Charlotte apartment properties offering concessions, Eleven consecutive quarters of year-over-year asking rent declines
- Fiscal Year 2026 Fair Market Rents · US Department of Housing and Urban Development · retrieved Supports: Two-bedroom Fair Market Rent of $1,847 for the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia NC-SC HUD Metro FMR Area
- Tax rates, fiscal year 2027 · Mecklenburg County Office of the Tax Collector · retrieved Supports: Mecklenburg County rate of 49.27 cents per $100 of assessed value, unchanged for FY2027, City of Charlotte rate of 29.30 cents per $100, applied on top of the county rate inside the city
- Board of County Commissioners adopts $2.6 billion operating budget for FY2027 · Mecklenburg County · retrieved Supports: The county property tax rate holds at 49.27 cents per $100 for FY2027
- Charlotte City Council adopts the FY2027 budget · WCNC Charlotte · retrieved Supports: City property tax rate rising 1.89 cents from 27.41 to 29.30 cents per $100, adopted 8 June 2026, The increase is dedicated to police and fire pay and raises about $85 million
- Sales assessment ratio studies as of January 1, 2025 · North Carolina Department of Revenue, Local Government Division · retrieved Supports: Mecklenburg County last revalued in 2023, A certified median sales assessment ratio of 88.78%: assessed values are 88.78% of sale prices, An effective county tax rate of 0.4374% against a nominal 0.4927%, computed as rate × assessment level, A coefficient of dispersion of 9.63, among the lowest in the state
- Primary Mortgage Market Survey, 13 August 2026 · Freddie Mac · retrieved Supports: 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaging 6.67%, against 6.58% a year earlier
- Commissioner Causey negotiates settlement on Rate Bureau's homeowners' insurance request · North Carolina Department of Insurance · retrieved Supports: Statewide average base rate increases of 7.5% on 1 June 2025 and 7.5% on 1 June 2026, Charlotte territory increases of 9.3% and 9.2%, No further rate filing before June 2027
- Conforming loan limit values for 2026 · Federal Housing Finance Agency · retrieved Supports: Baseline one-unit conforming loan limit of $832,750 for 2026, which is the limit in Mecklenburg County
- Table 1: Comparison of Taxes Levied, county and municipal governments, fiscal years 2024-25 and 2025-26: Miami-Dade · Florida Department of Revenue, Property Tax Oversight · retrieved Supports: The adopted 2025-26 millage rate for Miami-Dade County and every municipality in it, The county's own components: countywide 4.5740, Fire/Rescue 2.3965, Library 0.2812 and the Unincorporated Municipal Service Area at 1.9090, Municipal rates from Sunny Isles Beach's 1.7000 to Biscayne Park's 9.3000
- 2025 millage rates and taxing authorities, Miami-Dade County · Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser · retrieved Supports: A published combined rate for unincorporated Miami-Dade of 16.9317 mills, Its components: school district 6.4990, countywide 5.7361, regional water districts 0.3911, Fire Rescue 2.3965 and UMSA 1.9090, which this layer's stack reproduces exactly, Millage code 0100, the City of Miami, at 19.9878 mills for 2025: 7.1080 of city operating levy and 0.2536 of city debt service on the countywide 12.6262, Opa-locka's municipal operating levy of 8.9797, and a 2025 total of 24.0024 for millage code 0800, A city debt service column, which nine of the twenty-four municipalities here carry: Miami 0.2536, Miami Beach 0.2779, North Bay Village 1.1666, Golden Beach 0.6000, Miami Shores 0.1331, North Miami Beach 0.2000, Miami Gardens 0.4331, Doral 0.4810 and Homestead 0.2446, A blank library district column for Hialeah, North Miami, North Miami Beach, Homestead, Miami Shores, Bal Harbour and Surfside, which are outside the county library district, A blank Fire Rescue column for Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Hialeah and Key Biscayne, which is the five this layer flags
- About Fire Rescue · Miami-Dade Fire Rescue · retrieved Supports: The Fire Rescue district covering the unincorporated county and twenty-nine municipalities, Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Hialeah and Key Biscayne operating their own fire departments and lying outside the district
- Annual estimates of the resident population for incorporated places, 2020 to 2024 · United States Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program · retrieved Supports: 2020 census counts and 2024 estimates for each municipality, Miami at 487,014 and Hialeah at 235,388; Golden Beach at 1,034
- Average cost of home insurance in Florida, 2026 · MoneyGeek · retrieved Supports: A Miami-Dade County average of about $6,045 a year: below Palm Beach County's $6,614, A Florida average of about $3,815 and a national average of about $2,543
- Governmental leasehold intangible personal property tax and the non-recurring intangible tax on mortgages · Florida Department of Revenue · retrieved Supports: A non-recurring intangible tax of 2 mills: 0.2%, on the obligation secured by a mortgage on Florida real property
- Chapter 2023-17, Laws of Florida: preemption of rent control · The Florida Senate · retrieved Supports: The repeal of the referendum exception that had allowed a local rent control ordinance in a declared housing emergency
- TIGERweb, Census 2020: census blocks, with the 2020 population and housing unit counts · United States Census Bureau · retrieved Supports: A 2020 census count of 223,109 residents and 77,475 housing units in Hialeah city, the sum of the blocks in the 2020 place, The resident counts by area and by flood zone on these pages, from the blocks whose internal point falls inside each line
- City Boundary layer (BaseMaps/Parcels_Map, layer 2) · City of Hialeah, ArcGIS Server · retrieved Supports: One feature, NAME HIALEAH, of 14,634 acres, taking in the same census blocks as the 2020 place
- Flood Zones layer (Environmental/Flood, layer 3) · City of Hialeah, ArcGIS Server · retrieved Supports: 90,311 of the city's 2020 residents in a special flood hazard area: 77,666 in zone AH and 12,645 in zone AE, Zone AH with a base flood elevation of 8 feet at City Hall, 501 Palm Avenue
- National Flood Hazard Layer · Federal Emergency Management Agency · retrieved Supports: The effective flood map for Hialeah, panel 12086C0284L, effective 11 September 2009, The same zone and base flood elevation as the City's layer at each point checked, including City Hall
- Hialeah 2050 Master Plan: District Master Plan Recommendations · Plusurbia for the City of Hialeah · retrieved Supports: Six areas and 29 numbered districts covering the whole city, drawn on street lines (Map 01, City of Hialeah Neighborhoods and Districts), Adoption by the City Council in June 2025