Miami vs Hialeah: which should you move to?
Miami 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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Miami and Hialeah are two rows of one table and two neighbors in one county: the same Zillow series for June 2026, the same $505 insurance line for a mainland Miami-Dade house, the same 6.67% mortgage rate and the same Miami-Dade deed stamp, so neither takes income tax, a single filer on $100,000 pays the same $13,449 in federal tax in each, sales tax is 7% in both, and every gap below is a real one rather than a difference of method. They also share a school district, a transit system, a labor market and an airport. Hialeah's typical home was $445,331 and Miami's $582,621, and mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $3,425 a month against $4,404. Of the $979 gap, $706 is the mortgage and $273 the tax, because a Hialeah address pays 18.6468 mills against 19.9878 on a price about 24% lower. Against pay the gap narrows: Hialeah households earn $57,151 against Miami's $66,337, so its carry is about 72% of median income against 80%, and its rent is $2,374 against $3,004. The climate is the same to about a degree. Crime is not: on the FBI's 2025 counts and agency populations Hialeah had about 173 violent offenses per 100,000 against Miami's 358.6, and 3 homicides against 26. Choose Miami for Metrorail and the Metromover at the door, Jackson Memorial and a city that is still growing. Choose Hialeah for a cheaper house in the same county, half the violent crime and a City that runs its own fire department, library and free buses, if you will read the flood map first: two in five of its residents live in a mapped flood zone.
| Measure | Miami | Hialeah | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| City population | 489,812 (2025) | 230,968 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
| Metro population | 6,391,072 (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. | 10.8% (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 | Miami | 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. | $582,621 (June 2026) | $445,331 (June 2026) | Hialeah |
| Detached house benchmark Miami and Hialeah publish a single house index rather than a composite, so the two rows repeat. | $582,621 | $445,331 | Hialeah |
| Apartment or condominium benchmark | Not published | Not published | Not directly comparable |
| Two-bedroom rent | $3,004/mo (median, June 2026) | $2,374/mo (median, June 2026) | Hialeah |
| One-bedroom rent | $2,583/mo | $2,042/mo | Hialeah |
| 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. | 54.3% of a year's income | 49.8% of a year's income | Hialeah |
| Mortgage payment on the benchmark, 20% down 30-year amortization on American monthly compounding, the convention in both. | $2,998/mo at 6.67% | $2,292/mo at 6.67% | Hialeah |
| Price to household income Benchmark price divided by the median household income below. A ratio is comparable across currencies; the dollars are not. | 8.8× | 7.8× | Hialeah |
| 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. | $10,808/yr (1.855%, 2025) | $7,534/yr (1.692%, 2025) | Hialeah |
| 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. | $3,496 (seller pays) | $2,672 (seller pays) | Even |
| 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 |
Miami: About 1.86% of what you pay for the house, which is lower than the 19.9878 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 19.9878. 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 $10,808 on the $582,621 typical home value here. Miami 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. 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 | Miami | 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 | 359 (2025) | 178 (2025) | Hialeah |
| Property crime per 100,000 | 2,241 (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. | 26 (2025) | 3 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
FBI CDE counts for Miami PD show violent offenses falling from 2,245 in 2023 to 2,225 in 2024 and 1,787 in 2025 (a 20 percent one-year drop), property offenses from 13,928 to 11,178, and homicides from 61 in 2020 to 26 in 2025. Mid-2025 the department reported robberies down 17 percent and auto thefts down 37 percent against the first half of 2024.
What the rates cover: Miami Police Department (ORI FL0130600), FBI Crime Data Explorer NIBRS summarized data, 1,787 violent offenses in calendar 2025 against a CDE agency population of 498,792. 2024: 2,225 offenses, 483.1 per 100k. Miami PD moved to NIBRS mid 2022, so 2021 is blank and 2022 is a partial year in the CDE.
Homicides: Miami PD, FBI CDE: 26 murders and nonnegligent manslaughters in 2025, 5.2 per 100k. 2024: 29 (6.4 per 100k), 2023: 32 (7.1), 2020: 61 (12.8). Miami PD said in July 2025 the city might beat its record low of 24 set in 1946.
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 | Miami | Hialeah | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| January mean | 20.3 °C | 19.7 °C | Not directly comparable |
| July mean | 28.9 °C | 28.5 °C | Not directly comparable |
| Precipitation a year | 1,712 mm | 1,852 mm | Not directly comparable |
| Snowfall a year | 0 cm | 0 cm | Not directly comparable |
| Sunshine a year | 3,154 hours | 3,154 hours | Even |
NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals at Miami International Airport (USW00012839): January mean 68.6 F, July 84.1 F (August is warmest at 84.2 F), annual mean 77.4 F, annual precipitation 67.41 in, snow 0. Sunshine about 3,154 hours a year comes from NOAA Comparative Climatic Data (older period), not the 1991-2020 normals. Hazards: hurricanes and storm surge, seasonal king tide and rainfall flooding, heat and humidity from May to October, frequent thunderstorms (roughly 80 thunder days a year).
Hazards: Hurricanes and storm surge every June to November, with chronic tidal and rain flooding; windstorm and separate NFIP or private flood cover are a real carrying cost and coastal home premiums commonly run $4,000 to $7,000 a year or more.
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 | Miami | Hialeah | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $66,337 USD (2024) | $57,151 USD (2024) | Miami |
| Unemployment rate | 3.0% (June 2026) | 3.7% (July 2026) | Miami |
| Sales tax | 7% | 7% | Even |
| 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. | 37% | 37% | Even |
| Income tax on $100,000, single filer Miami and Hialeah sit under one province's or state's income tax, so the two cells describe the same tax and any difference between them is one of method rather than of tax. Florida levies no income tax, so both cells are the federal bill on $100,000 and they agree to the dollar. The Advantage column is Even for that reason, and the essay below says the same thing. | $13,449 USD | $13,449 USD | Even |
Nonfarm employment in the Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall metropolitan division was 1,351,000 in June 2026, up 8,800 (0.7 percent) over the year, led by education and health services (+6,100) and professional and business services (+4,800); Broward shed 5,000 jobs over the same period. MIA handled nearly 3.5 million tons of cargo in 2025, the most of any US airport.
Main sectors: Trade, transportation and logistics (port and airport), Tourism and hospitality, Finance and professional services, Health care and education, Real estate and construction.
No state or local income tax. Property tax and insurance are the taxes and costs that bite in Miami: homestead exemption and the Save Our Homes 3 percent assessment cap favour long-time owners over new buyers.
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 | Miami | Hialeah | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| System | Miami-Dade Transit (Metrorail, Metromover, Metrobus); Brightline and Tri-Rail regional rail | 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 | 7.7% (2024) | 1.4% (2024) | Miami |
| Walk or cycle to work | 5.7% (2024) | 2.3% (2024) | Miami |
| Airport | Miami International Airport, MIA, 55.3 million passengers in 2025 (about 1 percent below 2024's record 55.9 million), per Miami-Dade Aviation Department release of May 4 2026 | 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 |
Miami-Dade Transit carried 80,797,500 unlinked trips in 2025 (APTA ridership report, as cited on Wikipedia): Metrorail 14,971,300, Metromover 7,683,800, the rest on Metrobus. Q4 2025 weekday averages: Metrorail 50,300, Metromover 25,600, system 259,400.
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 marketplace insurance, Medicare or Medicaid, and Florida has not expanded Medicaid, so the uninsured share runs above the national rate and emergency rooms carry the gap. Jackson Memorial, the public safety-net hospital with more than 1,500 licensed beds, is the teaching hospital of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine; Baptist Health South Florida, Mount Sinai Medical Center and the Miami VA are the other large systems.
Education
Miami-Dade County Public Schools is the third largest district in the country but enrolled 313,220 students in 2025-26, down about 13,000 in a year as charters and vouchers grew, and the board approved school closures and consolidations in 2026. Florida International University enrolls roughly 50,000 students and the private University of Miami about 20,000; magnet programs such as Design and Architecture Senior High and the choice-heavy system mean school assignment is something families actively manage.
Living there
The city proper is dense, young and majority Hispanic, with Spanish as common as English in daily business, and it has grown almost 11 percent since 2020 on finance and tech arrivals who pushed rents and condo prices up fast. Summers are long, wet and hot, winters are the reason people stay, and every household budgets for hurricane season, windstorm insurance and flooded streets at king tide. Driving is the default outside the Metrorail and Metromover corridors, and traffic is the complaint residents raise most.
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 for once the two headlines are not only the same kind of figure but two rows of one table. Miami and Hialeah are both municipalities in this site's Miami-Dade layer, which prices all twenty-four on Zillow's typical home value for June 2026, taxes each on the total the Miami-Dade Property Appraiser publishes for it, insures each mainland address at one figure and finances each at Freddie Mac's August rate of 6.67%, so nothing in the gap below is a difference of method. Miami's typical home was $582,621, 0.7% below a year earlier, and Hialeah's $445,331, 1.5% below; Hialeah's is about 24% below Miami's. Against local pay the gap narrows: the headlines are 8.8 times the City of Miami's 2024 median household income of $66,337 and 7.8 times Hialeah's $57,151, the lowest of the Florida cities this site compares. At 20% down, Miami's $466,097 loan costs $2,998 a month and Hialeah's $356,265 loan $2,292. A homesteaded buyer's first-year property tax is about $10,808 in Miami, 1.86% of the price on 19.9878 mills, against $7,534 in Hialeah, 1.69% on 18.6468, and insurance is the same $505 a month in both, the layer's figure for a mainland single-family policy, neither including flood. The three lines come to about $4,404 and $3,425, a $979 gap of which $706 is the mortgage and $273 the tax, roughly 80% and 72% of local median income. Renters see the same order: Zillow's observed rent index was $3,004 in Miami and $2,374 in Hialeah in June 2026, about 54% and 50% of median income, and the layer estimates a condominium fee of $850 a month in both, a figure no authority publishes for either city.
This is one of the pairs where the definitions match, since both cities' figures are the FBI's Crime Data Explorer counts for 2025, and on them Hialeah is the lower on every line, though one of its lines is short. Miami Police submitted 1,787 violent offenses, 358.6 per 100,000 on the FBI's agency population of 498,792, and 11,178 property offenses, 2,240.8. The Hialeah Police Department submitted 412 violent offenses, about 173 per 100,000 on the FBI's agency population of 238,769 and 178 on the Census estimate of 230,968, and 3,273 property offenses, 1,371 or 1,417. So Hialeah's violent rate is about half Miami's. Its property figure is understated: the FBI's copy carries only 7 motor vehicle thefts for the department in 2025, against 337 in the file of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which feeds the FBI, and with the state's count in place the rate would be about 1,560 on the Census estimate, still about 30% below Miami's. Homicide is the widest gap: 3 in Hialeah, about 1.3 per 100,000, against 26 in Miami, 5.2, which came within two of the city's record low of 24, set in 1946. Both are falling. Miami's violent offenses dropped 20% in 2025, from 2,225, and its homicides have come down from 61 in 2020. Hialeah's violent offenses have fallen every year since 2022, from 474 to 412, robberies have halved over the same years, and January to July 2026 brought 192 against 246 in the same months of 2025; leaving out the car thefts the FBI's series stopped carrying in October 2023, its property offenses fell 14% over three years. Miami's series before 2023 is incomplete because its department moved to incident-based reporting in mid-2022. The Hialeah counts were read on 2 October 2026, and both can still be revised.
The two climates are within about a degree of each other, and what separates the two cities is the kind of water. January averages 20.3 C at Miami International and 19.7 C at the Hialeah cooperative station, about half a mile outside the city's southern limit, 68.6F against 67.4F, and July 28.9 C against 28.5 C, 84.1F against 83.3F. The normals count 91.4 days a year at 90F or above at the airport and 91.0 at Hialeah, where none fall at or below freezing. Hialeah's station records more rain, 1,852 mm a year against 1,712 mm, the most of any Florida city this site compares, though five of its months rest on 21 to 23 years of the 30 while the airport's rest on all 30. Sunshine has one figure for both: the 3,154 hours on the older series are Miami's, and no Hialeah station carries one. Miami's hazards are hurricanes and storm surge from June to November, with chronic tidal and rain flooding and roughly 80 thunder days a year. Hialeah is inland, and its problem is rain on flat, low ground: FEMA's map puts its City Hall in zone AH, a special flood hazard area for shallow ponding with a base flood elevation of 8 ft, 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 mapped flood zone, 77,666 of them in AH and 12,645 in AE. The airport that serves both had 9.70 in of rain on 22 May 2012, its wettest day since 2010, and 7.53 in on 15 November 2023. The last hurricane to bring hurricane-force gusts was Irma in September 2017, which came ashore well to the southwest: Miami International recorded a gust of 72 mph and Opa-locka Airport, 2.9 miles north of Hialeah's center, 85 mph, and about 1,000 homes in Miami-Dade had major damage. Heat is the newer complaint. The airport counted 139 days at 90F or above in 2023 and reached 100F (37.8 C) on 18 August 2026, its only reading that high since 2010.
The two cities share one labor market, so the differences are in who lives in each rather than in the jobs. On every federal table they are the same metro: BLS put July 2026 unemployment at 3.7% for Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, not seasonally adjusted, the lowest of the Florida metros this site compares, with Miami-Dade County at 2.5% and the City of Hialeah at 2.3%. The Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall division, which is Miami-Dade alone, had 1,349,400 nonfarm jobs in August, 6,200 or 0.5% more than a year earlier, with professional and business services and private education and health services adding the most and financial activities losing 5,100. Miami's economy runs through the port, the airport, tourism, finance and health care, and MIA handled nearly 3.5 million tons of cargo in 2025, the most of any US airport. Hialeah's own employers are hospitals, shipping and groceries: Palmetto General Hospital, with 1,635 staff, the City itself, UPS and Hialeah Hospital lead its list, with Publix, Fresco y Más and Sedano's among the ten largest. Most of its residents work elsewhere in the county: 61.8% of the city's workers worked outside Hialeah in 2024 but only 9.8% outside Miami-Dade, and the mean commute was 30 minutes. Households do not earn the same. Median household income was $66,337 in the City of Miami in 2024 and $57,151 in Hialeah, $9,186 less, with a margin of error of $5,574, against $76,184 across the county. Hialeah is the older city, with a median age of 46.0 against Miami's 38.8, and the more owner-occupied, 42.8% of its homes against 32.7%. On the 2024 estimates 95.3% of its people are Hispanic and 72.7% of Cuban origin, and on the five-year tables 91.9% speak Spanish at home and 59.5% speak English less than very well. Florida takes no income tax in either, so $100,000 pays the same $13,449 in federal tax for 2025, and sales tax is the same 7% across Miami-Dade. Property tax and insurance come to about $16,868 a year on Miami's typical home and $13,594 on Hialeah's.
Miami is the one of the two where a household can reasonably drop a car, and Hialeah, with two Metrorail stations of its own, has not become a transit city. In 2024, 7.7% of City of Miami workers commuted by transit and 5.7% walked or cycled, against 1.4% and 2.3% in Hialeah, where 68.5% drove alone and 12.7% carpooled. It is one system. Miami-Dade's Department of Transportation and Public Works runs Metrobus across both cities and Metrorail's Green Line, which stops at Okeechobee and Hialeah stations inside Hialeah and at the Tri-Rail and Metrorail Transfer Station on its southern edge, where Tri-Rail runs north to Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. The county system carried 81,459,917 trips in 2025 on the National Transit Database's count, 20% below 2019; Miami's profile gives APTA's 80,797,500 for the same year, 14,971,300 of them on Metrorail and 7,683,800 on the fare-free Metromover downtown, and Brightline's regional trains stop in Miami. Hialeah adds what Miami does not: its own free buses, Hialeah Transit, which in 2023 ran two routes, Flamingo and Marlin, and an on-demand service through the Freebee app, almost 30,000 riders a month by its transit manager's count that October, most of the cost covered by a county half-penny tax. Both cities fly from Miami International, about 5.4 miles south of Hialeah's center, which handled 55,314,661 passengers in 2025 and is the direct gateway to Latin America and the Caribbean. Miami is the denser city, about 13,600 residents per square mile of land against about 10,700 in Hialeah, which is one of the few places in the county with a street grid numbered separately from Miami's.
Florida has not expanded Medicaid, so coverage in both runs through an employer or marketplace plan, Medicare or Medicaid, and Hialeah shows what that leaves: its uninsured rate was 15.1% in 2024, against Miami-Dade's 12.4%, Florida's 10.9% and the national 8.2%; Miami's profile says only that the uninsured share there runs above the national rate. Miami has the county's public safety-net hospital, Jackson Memorial, with more than 1,500 licensed beds, the teaching hospital of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and Baptist Health South Florida and Mount Sinai are the other large systems. Hialeah's two acute care hospitals, Hialeah Hospital and Palmetto General, have changed hands twice in five years: Steward Health Care bought them from Tenet in August 2021 and lost them in its bankruptcy, and a court approved their sale to Healthcare Systems of America on 25 October 2024. Neither profile verified a wait time. The schools are one district. Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the third largest in the country, enrolled 313,220 in 2025-26, about 13,000 fewer as charters and vouchers grew, and counted 18,910 fewer on the first days of 2026-27 than at the end of 2025-26, a snapshot the October count will refine; it has closed or consolidated nine schools and put 27 more under review, none of them named in Hialeah. Hialeah's high schools include Hialeah Senior, Hialeah-Miami Lakes and Westland Hialeah, with the José Martí MAST 6-12 magnet academy, and Miami Dade College has had a Hialeah campus since 1980. Florida International University enrolls roughly 50,000 students and the University of Miami about 20,000. One service splits along the city line: Hialeah has run its own public library since 1924, outside the county's library district.
What people underestimate is how much of the gap between two neighbors is the price and how little is the rate, and what neither carry includes. The two millages are 1.3410 mills apart, 19.9878 in the City of Miami and 18.6468 in Hialeah, and each difference is a line on the appraiser's chart: Miami's City levies 7.1080 and 0.2536 for debt against Hialeah's 6.3018, a rate Hialeah has held for at least ten years, and a Miami address pays the county library district's 0.2812, which Hialeah's does not because the City runs its own library. Both run their own fire departments, so neither pays the county Fire Rescue district's 2.3965, and both pay the same 12.3450 of school, county and regional levies, the school board's 6.4990 among them. The rules are the state's in both. $25,000 of taxable value comes off every levy for a homestead and a second slice off all but the school district's, Save Our Homes caps a homestead's assessment at 3% a year and resets it on a sale, and the exemption has to be filed with the Miami-Dade Property Appraiser by 1 March of the year after you buy; without it the bills are about $11,645 and $8,304. The deed stamp is Miami-Dade's own, 60 cents per $100 on a single-family house, about $3,496 on Miami's typical home and $2,672 on Hialeah's, plus a 45-cent surtax on a condominium or duplex, about $4,676 in all at Hialeah's price; it is the seller's by convention, and the buyer pays 0.55% of the loan, about $2,564 and $1,959. The insurance line is the same $505 a month in both, against a Miami-Dade average of about $6,045 a year, and it excludes flood, which in Hialeah is the question to ask first: on the City's layer the share of residents in a mapped flood zone runs from under a tenth in some parts of the city to all of the newest ground west of Interstate 75, so the elevation certificate says more than the city line. Hialeah's housing adds its own check: small post-war houses with additions and converted garages, common enough that a permit search is a standard step. And the two are moving apart in size. Miami grew 10.8% from 2020 to 2025. Hialeah grew 3.5% and lost 2,210 residents in 2024-25, the year Miami-Dade as a whole shrank by 10,115 as more people left for the rest of the country and fewer arrived from abroad.
Better here
- In 2024, 7.7% of city workers commuted by transit and 5.7% walked or cycled, against 1.4% and 2.3% in Hialeah.
- Metrorail, the fare-free Metromover and Brightline's regional trains all serve the city.
- City median household income was $66,337 in 2024, $9,186 more than Hialeah's $57,151.
- Jackson Memorial, the county's public safety-net hospital with more than 1,500 licensed beds, is the University of Miami's teaching hospital.
- The city grew 10.8% from 2020 to 2025, against 3.5% in Hialeah, which lost 2,210 residents in 2024-25.
- January averages 20.3 C at Miami International, against 19.7 C at the Hialeah station, and the airport's rain normal is 1,712 mm against 1,852 mm.
Worse here
- Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $4,404 a month on the June 2026 typical home, $979 more than Hialeah's $3,425 at the same 6.67% rate, and roughly 80% of median household income against 72%.
- On the FBI's 2025 counts and agency populations violent crime ran 358.6 per 100,000, against about 173 in Hialeah, and there were 26 homicides against 3.
- Property crime was 2,240.8 per 100,000, against 1,371 in Hialeah on the same basis, or about 1,560 on the Census estimate with the state's count of car thefts.
- Zillow's observed rent index was $3,004 in June 2026, about 54% of median income, against $2,374 and 50% in Hialeah.
- A City address pays 19.9878 mills against 18.6468, including the county library district's 0.2812 and 0.2536 for City debt.
- Hurricanes, storm surge and chronic tidal and rain flooding are the city's named hazards, with roughly 80 thunder days a year.
Choose Miami if
- you can live along Metrorail or the Metromover and run the household on one car or none
- your work is in finance, trade with Latin America, the port, the airport or tourism
- you want the county's teaching hospital and the larger, faster-growing city
- you want a younger city, with a median age of 38.8 rather than 46.0
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Better here
- Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $3,425 a month on the June 2026 typical home, against $4,404 in Miami at the same 6.67% rate.
- Violent crime was about 173 per 100,000 on the FBI's 2025 counts and agency population, about half Miami's 358.6, and there were 3 homicides against 26.
- The City runs its own fire department, library and free buses, and has held its own rate at 6.3018 mills for at least ten years.
- City unemployment was 2.3% in July 2026, against 3.7% across the metro, and only 9.8% of workers commuted out of Miami-Dade in 2024.
- Okeechobee and Hialeah Metrorail stations are inside the city, and Tri-Rail stops at the transfer station on its southern edge and at Hialeah Market.
- Zillow's observed rent index was $2,374 in June 2026, against $3,004 in Miami.
Worse here
- City median household income was $57,151 in 2024, the lowest of the Florida cities this site compares, so the typical home is 7.8 times it.
- Even at the lower price the carry is about 72% of median household income, and rent about 50%.
- About two in five residents at the 2020 census lived in a FEMA special flood hazard area on the City's layer, most of them in zone AH, where shallow ponding is the risk.
- Only 1.4% of workers commuted by transit in 2024 despite two Metrorail stations, and 68.5% drove alone.
- The uninsured rate was 15.1% in 2024, against Miami-Dade's 12.4% and Florida's 10.9%, and both hospitals went through Steward Health Care's bankruptcy.
- The population fell by 2,210 in 2024-25, after growth of 3.5% since 2020 against Miami's 10.8%.
Choose Hialeah if
- you want a house about 24% cheaper than Miami's typical home in the same county, school district and transit system
- you want half Miami's violent crime rate and a City that runs its own fire department, library and buses
- you want to live in Spanish: 91.9% of residents speak it at home
- you will read the flood zone, the elevation certificate and the permit history before the price
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Miami or Hialeah, in short
Is Miami or Hialeah cheaper to live in?
Hialeah, by about $979 a month to own and $630 to rent, though against local pay the gap narrows. The two figures come from one layer and net directly: Zillow's typical home value for June 2026 was $582,621 in Miami and $445,331 in Hialeah, both priced at 6.67% with 20% down. The mortgage is $2,998 against $2,292, property tax about $10,808 a year against $7,534, and insurance the same $505 a month, so the three lines come to about $4,404 and $3,425, roughly 80% and 72% of each city's median household income, $66,337 and $57,151. Neither includes flood. Zillow's observed rent index was $3,004 in Miami and $2,374 in Hialeah. Neither city levies income tax, and sales tax is 7% in both.
Is Miami or Hialeah safer?
Hialeah, on every line of the FBI's 2025 counts for both. On the FBI's agency populations Miami recorded 358.6 violent offenses per 100,000 and Hialeah about 173, and property crime ran 2,240.8 against 1,371. Hialeah's property figure is low because the FBI's copy carries 7 car thefts against the state's 337; with the state's count it would be about 1,560 on the Census estimate. Homicides were 26 in Miami, 5.2 per 100,000, and 3 in Hialeah, about 1.3. Both are falling: Miami's violent offenses dropped 20% in 2025, and Hialeah's for January to July 2026 were 22% below the same months of 2025. The Hialeah counts were read on 2 October 2026 and can still be revised.
Do Miami and Hialeah share a job market?
Yes. They are in one county and one metro, Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, where BLS put July 2026 unemployment at 3.7%, not seasonally adjusted, the lowest of the Florida metros this site compares; the City of Hialeah was 2.3%. Miami-Dade had 1,349,400 nonfarm jobs in August, 0.5% more than a year earlier. Miami's work runs through the port, MIA, tourism, finance and health care; Hialeah's largest employers are Palmetto General Hospital, the City, UPS and Hialeah Hospital, and 61.8% of its workers work outside the city, almost all of them inside Miami-Dade. The households differ: median income was $66,337 in Miami and $57,151 in Hialeah in 2024, and Hialeah's residents are older, with a median age of 46.0 against 38.8.
Why does a Hialeah address pay fewer mills than a Miami one?
Because of three lines on the same chart. Both pay the same 12.3450 mills of school, county and regional levies, and neither pays the county Fire Rescue district's 2.3965, since both run their own fire departments. Miami's City then levies 7.1080 plus 0.2536 for debt and its address pays the county library district's 0.2812, for 19.9878 in all; Hialeah's City levies 6.3018, a rate it has held for at least ten years, and runs its own library, so it pays no library levy, for 18.6468. On each city's typical home a homesteaded buyer pays about $10,808, 1.86%, against $7,534, 1.69%. The appraiser's proposed 2026 table keeps Hialeah's rate where it is, for a total of 18.6134.
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.
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- Largest U.S. Metro Areas by Population 2026 (Vintage 2025 estimates) · statranker.org · retrieved Supports: Metro population
- Florida MSA population estimates, April 1 2025 · Florida Office of Economic and Demographic Research · retrieved Supports: population.metro (alternative state estimate)
- Miami, FL Metro Area and Miami city profiles, ACS 2024 1-year · Census Reporter · retrieved Supports: Median household income, population.metro (ACS)
- ACS 2024 1-year table B08301 Means of Transportation to Work · Census Reporter API (US Census Bureau data) · retrieved Supports: Transit commute share, Walk and cycle commute share
- Crime Data Explorer summarized agency data, Miami Police Department (FL0130600) · FBI · retrieved Supports: Violent crime rate, Property crime rate, Homicides, Crime trend
- Miami Police Report 20% Decrease in Homicides for 1st Half of 2025 · Officer.com · retrieved Supports: Crime trend, Homicides
- U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly and annual, station USW00012839 Miami International Airport · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved Supports: January mean, July mean, Annual precipitation, Annual snowfall
- Comparative Climatic Data · NOAA NCEI · retrieved Supports: climate.sunshineHours (approximate; figure taken from search summaries of CCD, not the table itself)
- Climate of Miami · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: climate.hazards (thunderstorm days, hurricane exposure)
- Broward County June 2026 Unemployment Data · CareerSource Broward (FloridaCommerce data) · retrieved Supports: Unemployment rate, Labour market
- Discretionary Sales Surtax Information (DR-15DSS) 2026 · Florida Department of Revenue · retrieved Supports: Sales tax
- IRS releases tax inflation adjustments for tax year 2025 · Internal Revenue Service · retrieved Supports: Top marginal income tax, taxes.incomeTaxAt100k (brackets)
- FAQ: The One Big Beautiful Bill Act Tax Changes · Tax Foundation · retrieved Supports: taxes.incomeTaxAt100k ($15,750 standard deduction)
- Miami-Dade Transit · Wikipedia (citing APTA Ridership Report) · retrieved Supports: Transit ridership
- Soaring cargo growth lifts MIA to #1 in the U.S., #3 in the world · Miami International Airport · retrieved Supports: Airport passengers, Labour market
- Miami (MIA) Airport & Passenger Statistics · RoadGenius · retrieved Supports: transit.airport (2024 comparison)
- A Guide to Florida Flood Insurance (2026) · Insurify · retrieved Supports: climate.hazards (insurance costs)
- Enrollment in Miami-Dade schools is lower at the start of this year. Why? · WLRN · retrieved Supports: Education
- FIU enrollment approaches 50,000 as fall semester nears · Miami Today · retrieved Supports: Education
- Jackson Memorial Hospital · Jackson Health System · retrieved Supports: Health care
- 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
- Average Annual Sunshine in US Cities · Current Results (NCDC Comparative Climatic Data, 1961-1990) · retrieved Supports: Sunshine hours, Climate normals, Miami, Florida: 3,154 hours, 70% of possible, 74 clear days; no Hialeah station
- 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 · 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
- 2025 Tax Brackets and Federal Income Tax Rates · Tax Foundation · retrieved Supports: Top marginal income tax, Income tax on $100,000
- 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
- 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
- Primary Mortgage Market Survey · Freddie Mac · retrieved Supports: 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaging 6.67%
- 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