Ottawa vs Hialeah: which should you move to?
Ottawa 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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The two housing bills are in different currencies, and held against local pay Ottawa's is far the lighter. Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $3,350 CAD a month in Ottawa, roughly 39% of the city's 2020 median household income, and about $3,425 USD on Zillow's typical value for the City of Hialeah, roughly 72% of the city's 2024 median, the lowest of the Florida cities this site compares. The Hialeah house is the larger multiple of income too, about 7.8 times against 6.2 for Ottawa's composite benchmark, and it is carried at 6.67% against 4.34%, taxed at about 1.69% of value against 0.83% and insured at $505 a month with no flood cover, in a flat inland city where about two in five residents live in a mapped flood zone; that is how Florida collects what it does not take in income tax. Renting runs the same way, about 23% of median income for an Ottawa two-bedroom against about 50% on Zillow's Hialeah index. Homicide is rare in both, 21 in the Ontario part of Ottawa-Gatineau in 2025 at 1.59 per 100,000 and 3 in Hialeah at about 1.3, and Hialeah's violent crime is falling where Ottawa's is rising. Hialeah has the lower unemployment, 3.7% across the Miami metro against 6.8%, in a private economy where Ottawa's public service is being cut. Choose Ottawa for public health care, French schooling and a train to work, and to own on a local salary. Choose Hialeah for a 19.7 C January and a salary taxed only by Washington in a city where nine in ten residents speak Spanish at home, if you earn above the local median or rent.
Ottawa prices are in CAD and Hialeah prices are in USD. The tables leave them in their own currency and compare ratios and rates instead; a conversion would be stale by the time you read it.
| Measure | Ottawa | Hialeah | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| City population | 1,188,114 (2025) | 230,968 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
| Metro population | 1,700,014 (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. | 8.9% (2016-2021) | 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 | Ottawa | 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. | $634,000 (July 2026) | $445,331 (June 2026) | Not directly comparable |
| Detached house benchmark Hialeah publishes a single house index rather than a composite, so the two rows repeat. | $725,000 | $445,331 | Not directly comparable |
| Apartment or condominium benchmark | $385,500 | Not published | Not directly comparable |
| Two-bedroom rent | $1,916/mo (average, October 2025) | $2,374/mo (median, June 2026) | Not directly comparable |
| One-bedroom rent | $1,593/mo | $2,042/mo | Not directly comparable |
| 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. | 22.5% of a year's income | 49.8% of a year's income | Ottawa |
| Mortgage payment on the benchmark, 20% down 25 years in Ottawa against 30 in Hialeah, each compounding the way its own country's lenders do. The rates are not a spread you can shop: they are what each market charges. | $2,762/mo at 4.34% | $2,292/mo at 6.67% | Not directly comparable |
| Price to household income Benchmark price divided by the median household income below. A ratio is comparable across currencies; the dollars are not. | 6.2× | 7.8× | Ottawa |
| 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. | $5,262/yr (0.83%, 2026) | $7,534/yr (1.692%, 2025) | Ottawa |
| 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. | $9,155 (buyer pays) | $2,672 (seller pays) | Hialeah |
| Rent control A cap protects a sitting tenant and does nothing for the next lease, so neither column is simply better. | 2.1% guideline (2026) | Forbidden by state law | Not directly comparable |
Ottawa: About 0.83% of market value. Ottawa levies roughly 1.26%, but against a Current Value Assessment frozen at 1 January 2016 values, because Ontario has deferred every reassessment since. The average urban home is assessed at $415,000 and pays about $5,246 in 2026, which on the $634,000 composite benchmark is 0.83%. Ottawa's municipal taxes on a representative detached house were the lowest of Ontario's ten largest cities in 2025. 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 | Ottawa | 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. | 50.6 (2025) | Not published | Not directly comparable |
| Violent crime per 100,000 Canada counts every violent Criminal Code incident; the FBI counts four offences. The Canadian figure is always the larger one for that reason alone. | 814 (2025) | 178 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
| Property crime per 100,000 | 2,835 (2025) | 1,417 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
| 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. | 21 (2025) | 3 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
The Ontario-part CSI rose from 46.85 in 2021 to 54.20 in 2023, held at 54.12 in 2024 and fell 6% to 50.61 in 2025 (table 35-10-0026-01). The violent crime rate has kept climbing, from 744 per 100k in 2021 to 814 in 2025, while property crime peaked in 2024 at 2,957 per 100k and eased to 2,835 in 2025.
What the rates cover: Total violent Criminal Code violations, rate per 100,000, Ottawa-Gatineau CMA Ontario part, table 35-10-0177-01 (10,745 incidents).
Homicides: Ottawa-Gatineau CMA Ontario part, table 35-10-0177-01; rate 1.59 per 100,000. 2024 was 27 (2.10 per 100k), the highest of the last five years.
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 | Ottawa | Hialeah | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| January mean | -10.0 °C | 19.7 °C | Not directly comparable |
| July mean | 21.2 °C | 28.5 °C | Not directly comparable |
| Precipitation a year | 930 mm | 1,852 mm | Not directly comparable |
| Snowfall a year | 232 cm | 0 cm | Not directly comparable |
| Sunshine a year | 2,084 hours | 3,154 hours | Hialeah |
Environment and Climate Change Canada 1991-2020 normals at Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier Int'l A (climate ID 6106000). Annual mean 6.5 C, rainfall 757.2 mm. Sunshine hours are from the 1981-2010 normals at Ottawa CDA (climate ID 6105976) because the 1991-2020 airport table does not publish sunshine totals.
Hazards: Cold winters with regular snowstorms and freezing rain, spring flooding along the Ottawa River (2017 and 2019), summer heat and humidity, occasional severe thunderstorms and tornadoes (September 2018, the May 2022 derecho), and wildfire smoke episodes such as June 2023.
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 | Ottawa | Hialeah | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $102,000 CAD (2020) | $57,151 USD (2024) | Not directly comparable |
| Unemployment rate Statistics Canada and the Bureau of Labor Statistics define unemployment slightly differently; the Canadian measure runs about a point higher on the same labour market. | 6.8% (July 2026) | 3.7% (July 2026) | Not directly comparable |
| Sales tax | 13% | 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. | 53.53% | 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. | $21,930 CAD | $13,449 USD | Not directly comparable |
The federal government is the anchor employer: 130,628 of 279,707 federal public servants were based in the National Capital Region at March 31, 2025, and Budget 2025 announced about 28,000 more public service job cuts by 2029. Regional unemployment ran from 6.4% in mid 2025 to 7.3% in late 2025 before easing to 6.8% in July 2026.
Main sectors: Federal public administration, Technology (Kanata North, Shopify, telecom and defence), Health care and hospitals, Post-secondary education, Tourism and national institutions.
Property tax is set by the City of Ottawa; not verified here.
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 | Ottawa | Hialeah | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| System | OC Transpo (buses, O-Train Lines 1, 2 and 4, Para Transpo); STO serves Gatineau | 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 | 11.2% (2021) | 1.4% (2024) | Ottawa |
| Walk or cycle to work | 8.5% (2021) | 2.3% (2024) | Ottawa |
| Airport | Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport, YOW, 4.9 million passengers in 2025, up 6% on 2024 (Ottawa International Airport Authority, 2025 results) | 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 |
70.6 million O-Train and bus trips in 2025, up 3.9% on 2024 (OC Transpo report to Transit Committee, February 12, 2026). Ridership fell in early 2026: 11.5 million trips in January-February versus 12.4 million a year earlier.
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 publicly funded through OHIP after a residency waiting period for newcomers, with prescription drugs, dental and vision outside the public plan for most working-age adults. The main hospitals are The Ottawa Hospital (Civic and General campuses), CHEO for children, the Queensway Carleton and Montfort; a replacement Civic campus was promised for 2028 but construction on the hospital itself had not begun as of 2026, and finding a family doctor is the hardest part of access, with the Ontario College of Family Physicians projecting 4.4 million Ontarians without one by 2026.
Education
The University of Ottawa (bilingual) and Carleton University are the large universities, with Algonquin College and La Cite for applied programs. Publicly funded schools run through four boards: the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, the Ottawa Catholic School Board, and French-language public and Catholic boards, so French immersion and full French schooling are both widely available.
Living there
Ottawa is a government town that behaves like a mid-sized city: quiet downtown evenings, a large share of households with two stable incomes, and a weekend life built around the Rideau Canal, the Gatineau Park hills across the river and the river pathways. Winters are long and cold, with roughly 232 cm of snow in a normal year, and summers are warm and humid. The O-Train light rail has had reliability problems since it opened in 2019, and the bus network has been cut back, so most households still drive.
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
Ottawa's figures are in Canadian dollars and Hialeah's in US dollars, and against local pay the two are far apart. Ottawa's composite benchmark, a blend of houses, townhouses and apartments, was $634,000 CAD in July 2026. Hialeah's figure is Zillow's typical home value for the city across all homes, $445,331 USD in June 2026, 1.5% below a year earlier, which is the city's row in this site's Miami-Dade table; like Ottawa's, it covers every kind of home, from the low-rise condominiums of the old city to the newest ground west of Interstate 75. The headlines are 6.2 times Ottawa's 2020 median household income of $102,000 CAD and about 7.8 times Hialeah's 2024 median of $57,151 USD, the lowest of the Florida cities this site compares and a figure with a margin of error of $5,574. At 20% down, Ottawa's mortgage at 4.34% is $2,762 CAD a month over 25 years, and the $356,265 loan on Hialeah's value at 6.67%, Freddie Mac's August rate, $2,292 USD over 30. Property tax is 0.83% of market value in Ottawa, $5,262 CAD a year, against about $7,534 USD 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 and navigation districts, and none of the county's fire rescue or library levies, because Hialeah runs its own fire department and library: an effective 1.69% after Florida's homestead exemption, and about $8,304 without one. With insurance at $145 CAD and $505 USD a month, the Hialeah figure this site's estimate for a mainland Miami-Dade policy, against a published county average of about $6,045 a year, and with no flood cover in it, the owners carry about $3,350 CAD and $3,425 USD, roughly 39% and 72% of local median income. A two-bedroom averaged $1,916 CAD in October 2025, about 23% of Ottawa's median income. Zillow's observed rent index for Hialeah, across all homes, was $2,374 USD in June 2026, about 50%, so the Florida city is the dearer to rent against pay as well. Ontario caps increases at 2.1% for 2026 in units first occupied before 15 November 2018; Florida forbids rent control outright.
Homicide is the one count that crosses the border intact, though Ottawa's covers the Ontario part of its metro and Hialeah's a city of 230,968. The Ontario part of Ottawa-Gatineau recorded 21 homicides in 2025, 1.59 per 100,000, against 27 in 2024. Hialeah recorded 3 in the FBI's Crime Data Explorer, about 1.3 per 100,000, after 12 in 2021, 6 in each of 2022 and 2023 and 2 in 2024; counts that small move a rate a long way from one year to the next. The other rates are different instruments. Statistics Canada put the Crime Severity Index for the Ontario part at 50.61 in 2025, below the national 75.0; American cities have no equivalent. Ottawa's violent rate of 813.79 per 100,000 counts every violent Criminal Code violation, common assault and uttering threats included. Hialeah's 178 is 412 FBI-definition offenses of murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault reported by the Hialeah Police Department in 2025, 356 of them aggravated assaults, divided by the Census estimate. Property crime, 2,834.59 per 100,000 against 1,417, is defined differently too, and Hialeah's figure is understated: the FBI's copy of the department's data has carried almost no vehicle thefts since October 2023, 7 in 2025 against 337 in the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's file, and with the state's count the rate would be about 1,560. The directions are opposite. Ottawa's violent rate has increased every year from 744 per 100,000 in 2021. Hialeah's violent offenses fell from 474 in 2022 to 412 in 2025, robberies halved, and January to July 2026 brought 192 against 246 in the same months of 2025, a fall of 22%. Its counts, read on 2 October 2026, can still be revised.
The two Januaries are almost 30 degrees apart. Ottawa's mean of -10.0 C at the airport is the coldest of the cities this site compares, and Hialeah's 19.7 C, at the Hialeah cooperative station about half a mile outside the city's southern limit, comes with no nights at or below freezing on the normals. July is 21.2 C in Ottawa and 28.5 C in Hialeah, where August is warmer still at 83.5F and the normals count 91.0 days a year at or above 32.2 C (90F); Miami International, 5.5 miles south, recorded 139 such days in 2023, the most since 2010, and reached 37.8 C (100F) on 18 August 2026 for the only time since 2010. Hialeah gets 1,852 mm of precipitation a year, about twice Ottawa's 929.8 mm and 56% of it from June to September, and no snow against Ottawa's 231.9 cm. Ottawa records 2,083.7 hours of sunshine; the 3,154 hours this site stores for Hialeah are Miami's, from 1961-1990 records, because the source lists no Hialeah station. Ottawa's hazards are freezing rain, spring flooding along the Ottawa River in 2017 and 2019, the September 2018 tornadoes, the May 2022 derecho and wildfire smoke. Hialeah's are hurricanes, heat and rain, and its flood water comes from the sky rather than the sea: the city is flat, low and inland, FEMA's map puts City Hall in zone AH, where heavy rain ponds, with a base flood elevation of 8 ft, and at the 2020 census 90,311 of its 223,109 residents lived in a special flood hazard area, 77,666 of them in zone AH and 12,645 in zone AE. Miami International's wettest day since 2010 brought 9.70 in on 22 May 2012. Irma, which came ashore well to the southwest on 10 September 2017, brought a gust of 85 mph at Opa-locka Airport, 2.9 miles north of Hialeah's center. An owner's utility premium over a renter is budgeted at $155 CAD a month in Ottawa, mostly heat from October to April, and an estimated $160 USD in Hialeah.
Ottawa's anchor is the federal government, and Hialeah's is hospitals, shipping and groceries. Ottawa had 130,628 of 279,707 federal public servants based in the National Capital Region at 31 March 2025, and Budget 2025 announced about 28,000 more positions to go by 2029. Hialeah's largest employers are Palmetto General Hospital with 1,635 staff, the City with 1,492, United Parcel Service with 1,119 in a city beside Miami International Airport and Hialeah Hospital with 1,032, then Publix, Fresco y Más and Sedano's. BLS counted 1,349,400 nonfarm jobs in Miami-Dade County in August 2026, 6,200 or 0.5% more than a year earlier, led by professional and business services and private education and health services, while financial activities lost 5,100. The Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metro's unemployment rate was 3.7% in July 2026, not seasonally adjusted, the lowest of the Florida cities this site compares, and the City of Hialeah's own was 2.3%; 61.8% of the city's workers work outside it, but only 9.8% outside Miami-Dade. Ottawa-Gatineau's was 6.8% the same month, seasonally adjusted and above Canada's 6.4%; the two are not directly comparable, though the gap is wide. Median household income was $102,000 CAD in Ottawa in 2020 and $57,151 USD in Hialeah in 2024, $9,186 below Miami's. Ontario levies a provincial income tax, so $100,000 pays about $21,930 CAD, including the $750 Ontario Health Premium and before CPP and EI, with a top combined rate of 53.53% and 13% HST. Florida levies none, so the same salary pays $13,449 USD in federal tax for 2025; the top rate is the federal 37% and sales tax is 7% in Miami-Dade, the state's 6% and two county half-cent surtaxes. Property tax carries more of the load instead, 1.69% on Hialeah's typical value against 0.83% on Ottawa's benchmark.
Transit is Ottawa's by a wide margin, though Hialeah has rail inside its limits. In the 2021 census 11.2% of Ottawa commuters took transit and 8.5% walked or cycled, counted in May 2021 with remote work at its height, so the share now is unknown rather than low. Hialeah has two Metrorail stations, Okeechobee and Hialeah, and the Tri-Rail and Metrorail Transfer Station on its southern edge, where the commuter railroad to Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach stops; yet in 2024 1.4% of its workers took transit, 1,727 of 119,984 on an estimate with a margin of error of 829, 2.3% walked or cycled, 68.5% drove alone, 12.7% carpooled and 13.2% worked from home. OC Transpo carried 70.6 million trips in 2025 on buses and O-Train Lines 1, 2 and 4, though the O-Train has had reliability problems since it opened in 2019. Miami-Dade's buses and trains carried 81,459,917 trips in 2025, 55.6 million on Metrobus and 15.0 million on Metrorail, 20% below 2019, and Tri-Rail another 4,552,250. The City of Hialeah runs its own free buses, which its transit manager put at almost 30,000 riders a month in October 2023. The mean commute is 30 minutes, and 11.4% of Hialeah's commuters spend an hour or more. Ottawa's airport handled 4.9 million passengers in 2025, with many trips connecting through Toronto or Montreal. Miami International, about 5.4 miles south of Hialeah's center, handled 55,314,661, more than eleven times as many.
Health care is where the border shows most. In Ottawa, OHIP pays for physician and hospital care with nothing due at the point of use after a residency wait for newcomers, though prescriptions, dental and vision mostly fall outside it. The bottleneck is a family doctor: the Ontario College of Family Physicians projected 4.4 million Ontarians without one by 2026, and the replacement Civic campus, promised for 2028, had not begun construction. In Hialeah care is bought through an employer or marketplace plan, Medicare or Medicaid, and Florida is one of ten states that have not expanded Medicaid. The City of Hialeah's uninsured rate was 15.1% in 2024, above Miami-Dade's 12.4%, Florida's 10.9% and the national 8.2%. Its two acute care hospitals, Hialeah Hospital and Palmetto General, were bought by Steward Health Care in August 2021 and lost in its bankruptcy, and a court approved their sale to Healthcare Systems of America in October 2024. This site verified no wait time for either city, and no current bed count for Hialeah's hospitals. Ottawa has four publicly funded school boards, English and French, public and Catholic, so French immersion and full French schooling are ordinary choices. Hialeah's public schools are Miami-Dade County Public Schools', a district that 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; it has closed or consolidated nine schools and put 27 more under review, none of them named in Hialeah. Miami Dade College has had a Hialeah campus since 1980, and the City runs its own library system, founded in 1924.
What people underestimate is that both tax bills rest on figures with dates on them, and how much the Hialeah one leaves out. Ottawa levies about 1.26% against assessments frozen at 1 January 2016, which is why the bill works out to 0.83% of what a buyer pays today, and none of this site's sources dates the next reassessment. The Hialeah $7,534 is the 2025 millage; the City has held its own 6.3018 mills for at least ten years, and the appraiser's proposed 2026 table keeps it there, for a total of 18.6134. It assumes a homestead filed by 1 March of the year after the purchase; without one the same house owes about $8,304, 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. Flood cover is left out too, because a homeowners policy does not pay for rising water, and in a mapped flood zone, where about two in five Hialeah residents live, a lender can require a flood policy well inland from the coast. A condominium adds an association fee this site estimates at $850 a month, moving upward since Florida's 2022 inspection and reserve legislation. Getting in differs as well: an Ottawa buyer owes $9,155 CAD in Ontario land transfer tax on the benchmark, and a Hialeah buyer about $1,959 in documentary stamp and intangible tax on a $356,265 loan, with the seller paying Miami-Dade's own deed rate, 60 cents per $100 on a house, about $2,672. The rate is the last date. Ottawa's 4.34% is fixed for a five-year term and then renews at whatever the rate is then, while the Hialeah 6.67% holds for thirty years; at 7.03%, Freddie Mac's rate of 24 September 2026, the Hialeah carry would be about $3,510, about 74% of income.
Better here
- Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $3,350 CAD a month, roughly 39% of the city's 2020 median household income, against about 72% in Hialeah, and the property tax is 0.83% of market value against an effective 1.69%.
- OHIP covers physician and hospital care whoever employs you, where Florida has not expanded Medicaid and 15.1% of Hialeah's residents were uninsured in 2024.
- A two-bedroom averaged $1,916 CAD in October 2025, about 23% of median household income, against about 50% on Zillow's Hialeah rent index.
- Transit carried 11.2% of commuters in the 2021 census and 8.5% walked or cycled, against 1.4% and 2.3% in Hialeah in 2024.
- Four publicly funded school boards, English and French, make French schooling an ordinary choice.
- July averages 21.2 C on the 1991-2020 normals, against 28.5 C in Hialeah, where the same normals count 91.0 days a year at or above 32.2 C (90F), and there is no hurricane season.
Worse here
- Regional unemployment was 6.8% in July 2026 against 3.7% in the Miami metro on an unadjusted basis, and Budget 2025 announced about 28,000 more federal public service cuts by 2029.
- January averages -10.0 C on a 231.9 cm snow normal, the coldest January mean of the cities this site compares, against 19.7 C and no snow in Hialeah.
- Income tax on $100,000 is about $21,930 CAD for 2025 against $13,449 USD of federal tax in Hialeah, sales tax is 13% HST against 7%, and the top combined rate is 53.53% against 37%.
- A buyer owes $9,155 in Ontario land transfer tax on the July 2026 benchmark, against about $1,959 of Florida tax on a Hialeah buyer's loan.
- 4.4 million Ontarians were projected to be without a family doctor by 2026, and the replacement Civic campus promised for 2028 had not begun construction.
- The violent crime rate has increased every year since 2021, while Hialeah's violent offenses have fallen every year since 2022.
Choose Ottawa if
- you want health coverage that comes with residency and survives a layoff
- you want to own on a local salary, at about 39% of median household income rather than 72%
- you are raising children and want French schooling to be an ordinary option
- you want to get to work by train or bus rather than by car
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Better here
- Unemployment in the Miami metro was 3.7% in July 2026, not seasonally adjusted, against 6.8% in Ottawa-Gatineau, and the City of Hialeah's own was 2.3%.
- Florida levies no income tax, so $100,000 pays $13,449 USD in federal tax for 2025 and $13,170 for 2026, against about $21,930 CAD in Ottawa.
- January averages 19.7 C with no snow and no freezing nights on the normals, against -10.0 C and 231.9 cm in Ottawa.
- There were 3 homicides in 2025, about 1.3 per 100,000, and violent offenses fell from 474 in 2022 to 412, with January to July 2026 a further 22% lower.
- Miami International, about 5.4 miles south, handled 55,314,661 passengers in 2025, more than eleven times Ottawa's airport.
- The City runs its own fire department, library and free buses, and has held its own tax rate at 6.3018 mills for at least ten years.
Worse here
- Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $3,425 USD a month, roughly 72% of the city's median household income against 39% in Ottawa, before any flood policy.
- Property tax on the typical value is about $7,534 a year with a homestead, an effective 1.69%, and about $8,304 without one.
- About two in five residents live in a FEMA special flood hazard area, mostly zone AH, where heavy rain ponds, and the $505 a month of insurance excludes flood.
- 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.
- Only 1.4% of workers commuted by transit in 2024 despite two Metrorail stations, and 68.5% drove alone.
- 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 a 19.7 C January and no snow to clear, and can plan around a hurricane season
- you speak Spanish, or want to live where 91.9% of your neighbors speak it at home
- you have employer health insurance you trust and would rather pay property tax on a house than provincial income tax on a salary
- you earn well above the local median, or will rent, and want a short drive to the jobs of Miami-Dade
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Ottawa or Hialeah, in short
Is Ottawa or Hialeah cheaper to live in?
Ottawa, to own and to rent, once each bill is held against its own city's pay, because the currencies do not convert here. Ottawa's $634,000 CAD composite benchmark is 6.2 times the city's 2020 median household income of $102,000 CAD, and Zillow's typical value of $445,331 USD about 7.8 times Hialeah's 2024 median of $57,151 USD, the lowest of the Florida cities this site compares. An Ottawa owner pays about $3,350 CAD a month on mortgage, property tax and insurance, roughly 39% of that income, and a Hialeah owner about $3,425 USD, roughly 72%, at a mortgage rate of 6.67% against 4.34%, a property tax of 1.69% against 0.83% and insurance of $505 a month against $145, before any flood policy. Renting runs the same way: a two-bedroom averaged $1,916 CAD in October 2025 in Ottawa, about 23% of median income, against Zillow's Hialeah rent index of $2,374 USD in June 2026, about 50%. Hialeah takes less income tax, $13,449 USD on $100,000 for 2025 against about $21,930 CAD, and less sales tax, 7% against 13%, and an Ottawa buyer funds $9,155 CAD of land transfer tax at closing.
Is Ottawa or Hialeah safer?
They are close on homicide, the one count that crosses the border, though it is a count for the Ontario part of a metro against one for a city of 230,968. Ottawa's recorded 21 homicides in 2025, 1.59 per 100,000, against 27 in 2024; Hialeah recorded 3 in the FBI's file, about 1.3 per 100,000, after 12 in 2021, and counts that small swing from year to year. The other rates are different instruments. Ottawa's violent rate of 813.79 per 100,000 counts every violent Criminal Code violation, including common assault, while Hialeah's 178 is murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault from the FBI's counts, divided by the Census estimate and still open to revision. Property crime, 2,834.59 per 100,000 against 1,417, is defined differently as well, and Hialeah's figure is understated because the FBI's copy of its data stopped carrying most vehicle thefts in October 2023. Statistics Canada put Ottawa's Crime Severity Index at 50.61 in 2025 against a national 75.0; American cities have no equivalent. The directions are opposite: Ottawa's violent rate has increased every year since 2021, and Hialeah's violent offenses have fallen every year since 2022.
Which has the better climate, Ottawa or Hialeah?
Hialeah in winter and Ottawa in summer, and the winters are almost 30 degrees apart. January averages 19.7 C in Hialeah with no snow and no freezing nights on the normals, against -10.0 C and 231.9 cm in Ottawa, the coldest January mean of the cities this site compares, and an Ottawa owner heats from October to April. July averages 21.2 C in Ottawa against 28.5 C and humid in Hialeah, where the normals count 91.0 days a year at or above 32.2 C (90F) and Miami International recorded 139 in 2023. Hialeah gets about twice the precipitation, 1,852 mm against 929.8 mm, 56% of it from June to September. Ottawa's hazards are freezing rain, Ottawa River flooding as in 2017 and 2019, tornadoes, the May 2022 derecho and wildfire smoke; Hialeah's are hurricanes, heat and rain flooding on flat, low ground, where about two in five residents live in a mapped flood zone.
Do I need to speak Spanish to live in Hialeah?
This site has no measure of what a newcomer needs, only of how much Spanish there is, and there is a great deal. On the Census Bureau's 2020-2024 estimates 91.9% of Hialeah's residents speak Spanish at home and 59.5% speak English less than very well. On the 2024 estimates 95.3% are Hispanic, 72.7% are of Cuban origin and 77.1% were born outside the United States, against 55.3% across Miami-Dade, which makes Hialeah the most Cuban city in the country; it became a working-class city after 1959 as successive waves of Cuban exiles settled there. Ottawa's second language sits in its institutions instead: of its four publicly funded school boards, English and French, public and Catholic, two teach in French, so full French schooling is an ordinary choice there.
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.
- Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population: Ottawa, City (CSD) and Ottawa-Gatineau (Ontario part) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: population.city (2021 count), Five-year growth, Median household income, Transit commute share, Walk and cycle commute share
- Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population: Ottawa-Gatineau (CMA) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: population.metro (2021 count), population.growthPct5y (CMA)
- Population estimates, July 1, by census subdivision, 2021 boundaries (table 17-10-0155-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: City population
- Population estimates, July 1, by census metropolitan area and census agglomeration, 2021 boundaries (table 17-10-0148-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: Metro population
- Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, Canada, provinces, territories and Census Metropolitan Areas (table 35-10-0026-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: Crime Severity Index, Crime trend
- Police-reported Crime Severity Index and crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2025 · Statistics Canada, The Daily · retrieved Supports: Crime Severity Index, crime.propertyRatePer100k (all-crime rate context)
- Incident-based crime statistics, by detailed violations, Canada, provinces, territories, CMAs (table 35-10-0177-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: Violent crime rate, Property crime rate, Homicides, Crime trend
- Ottawa crime rate increases in 2025, remains above Ontario average · Yahoo News Canada (Ottawa Police Service KPI report to the Police Services Board, January 26, 2026) · retrieved Supports: crime.index (OPS city CSI 55.8)
- Canadian Climate Normals 1991-2020, Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier Int'l A · Environment and Climate Change Canada · retrieved Supports: January mean, July mean, Annual precipitation, Annual snowfall
- Canadian Climate Normals 1981-2010, Ottawa CDA · Environment and Climate Change Canada · retrieved Supports: Sunshine hours
- Labour force characteristics by census metropolitan area, three-month moving average, seasonally adjusted (table 14-10-0459-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: Unemployment rate, Labour market
- Labour Force Survey, July 2026 · Statistics Canada, The Daily · retrieved Supports: economy.unemploymentPct (Canada and Ontario comparison)
- Federal government to cut another 28,000 public service jobs by 2029 · CTV News Ottawa · retrieved Supports: Labour market
- Federal Government Jobs in Ottawa: 2026 Hiring Guide (citing Public Service Commission counts at March 31, 2025) · Via Ottawa · retrieved Supports: economy.note (NCR public servant count)
- 2025 and 2026 Combined Federal and Ontario Tax Rates Including Surtaxes · TaxTips.ca · retrieved Supports: Top marginal income tax, Income tax on $100,000
- Ontario Health Premium · TaxTips.ca · retrieved Supports: Income tax on $100,000
- 2025 Non-Refundable Personal Tax Credits, Base Amounts · TaxTips.ca · retrieved Supports: Income tax on $100,000
- Recap: February 12, 2026 Transit Committee · OC Transpo · retrieved Supports: Transit ridership
- OC Transpo sees drop in ridership to start 2026 · CTV News Ottawa · retrieved Supports: transit.ridershipNote (early 2026)
- A transformational year: Ottawa Airport Authority reports 2025 results · Ottawa International Airport Authority · retrieved Supports: Airport passengers
- More Than Four Million Ontarians Will Be Without a Family Doctor by 2026 · Ontario College of Family Physicians · retrieved Supports: Health care
- New Ottawa Civic hospital opening likely delayed by years, says project consultant · CBC News · 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 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
- 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
- MLS® Home Price Index: Ottawa Real Estate Board, July 2026 · Canadian Real Estate Association / Ottawa Real Estate Board · retrieved Supports: Composite MLS® HPI benchmark of $634,000 in July 2026, down 0.5% year over year, Single-family benchmark of $725,000, up 0.7% year over year, Townhouse and row benchmark of $542,500, down 5.1% year over year, Apartment benchmark of $385,500, down 5.2% year over year, 1,325 sales and 4,678 active listings in July 2026
- Rental Market Survey: Ottawa, average rent by bedroom type, October 2025 · Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation · retrieved Supports: Ottawa average purpose-built rents of $1,332 studio, $1,593 one-bedroom, $1,916 two-bedroom and $2,090 three-bedroom-plus, An overall average of $1,743 across 89,170 purpose-built units, Year-over-year increases of 3.4% on one- and two-bedroom units and 3.9% overall, Average rent of $2,320 in buildings completed in 2000 or later against $1,529 in buildings from before 1960
- Rental Market Statistics Summary: Ottawa (CV), October 2025 · Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation · retrieved Supports: City of Ottawa purpose-built vacancy rate of 2.9% across 86,550 units, City of Ottawa average rent of $1,741 and median rent of $1,675
- 2026 Tax Policy and Other Revenue Matters · City of Ottawa, Revenue Services · retrieved Supports: Ontario's last province-wide reassessment was completed in 2016 and municipalities rely on 2016 assessment values for the 2026 tax year, The average urban Ottawa home is assessed at $415,000, A 2026 net municipal increase of $184 on that home: $166 from the 3.75% budget increase and $18 from the multi-residential ratio change, The 2026 budget was approved on 10 December 2025 with a 3.75% overall municipal tax increase, Ottawa's 2025 average municipal taxes on a representative two-storey detached house were $5,490, the lowest of Ontario's ten largest municipalities
- Education property tax rates · Government of Ontario · retrieved Supports: The residential education tax rate of 0.153% of assessed value, unchanged since 2020
- Premium information for homeowner and small rental loans · Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation · retrieved Supports: Mortgage default insurance premium rates by loan-to-value
- Regulations amending the Insurable Housing Loan Regulations and the Eligible Mortgage Loan Regulations (SOR/2025-55) · Canada Gazette, Part II · retrieved Supports: The $1.5 million insured price cap, 30-year amortization for first-time buyers and new builds
- Minimum qualifying rate for uninsured mortgages · Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions · retrieved Supports: The qualifying rate of the contract rate plus two points, or 5.25%
- Interest rates charged for new and existing lending by chartered banks · Bank of Canada · retrieved Supports: The default mortgage rate of 4.34%, uninsured five-year-plus fixed, funds advanced May 2026
- Calculating Land Transfer Tax · Ontario Ministry of Finance · retrieved Supports: Provincial transfer tax brackets, The conditional 2.5% band
- Municipal Land Transfer Tax rates and fees · City of Toronto · retrieved Supports: Toronto municipal transfer tax brackets, First-time buyer rebate
- Residential rent increases · Government of Ontario · retrieved Supports: 2026 rent increase guideline of 2.1%, The 2018 occupancy exemption
- Retail Sales Tax · Government of Ontario · retrieved Supports: 8% retail sales tax on insurance premiums
- 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