Victoria vs Hialeah: which should you move to?
Victoria 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 housing bills are in different currencies and do not net, and held against local pay Hialeah's is the lighter, though neither is light. Mortgage, property tax and insurance on Victoria's single-family benchmark come to about $6,515 CAD a month, roughly 92% of the metro's 2020 median household income, against 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 Victoria house is 15.4 times income and the Hialeah one about 7.8. Renting runs the other way: about 29% of median income for a Victoria two-bedroom and about 50% on Zillow's Hialeah index. Florida takes no state income tax and collects through a property tax of about 1.69% of value against Victoria's 0.566%, and through a homeowners policy of $505 a month that does not cover flood, in a flat inland city where about two in five residents live in a mapped flood zone. Each has a hazard from the ground or the sky that no monthly figure prices: Cascadia under Victoria, and in Hialeah hurricanes and rain that ponds on low ground. Victoria recorded 4 homicides in 2025 across its metro, 0.90 per 100,000, against 3 in Hialeah at about 1.3. Hialeah has the lower unemployment, 3.7% across the Miami metro against 5.3% on Victoria's unadjusted count, and the 19.7 C January. Choose Victoria to walk to work in a mild climate with public health care, if you rent or already hold equity. Choose Hialeah to buy on a salary above the local median in a warm, Spanish-speaking city inside a metro of 6.4 million, if you will carry a flood policy as well as wind.
Victoria 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 | Victoria | Hialeah | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| City population | 91,867 (2021) | 230,968 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
| Metro population | 445,090 (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. | 7.1% (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 | Victoria | 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. | $1,311,000 (July 2026) | $445,331 (June 2026) | Not directly comparable |
| Detached house benchmark Victoria and Hialeah publish a single house index rather than a composite, so the two rows repeat. | $1,311,000 | $445,331 | Not directly comparable |
| Apartment or condominium benchmark | $548,600 | Not published | Not directly comparable |
| Two-bedroom rent | $2,076/mo (average, October 2025) | $2,374/mo (median, June 2026) | Not directly comparable |
| One-bedroom rent | $1,594/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. | 29.3% of a year's income | 49.8% of a year's income | Victoria |
| Mortgage payment on the benchmark, 20% down 25 years in Victoria 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. | $5,712/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. | 15.4× | 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. | $7,415/yr (0.566%, 2026) | $7,534/yr (1.692%, 2025) | Victoria |
| 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. | $24,220 (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. | 2.3% guideline (2026) | Forbidden by state law | Not directly comparable |
Victoria: The 2026 Class 1 residential total of $5.6559 per $1,000 of taxable value: municipal $3.7229 plus the CRD, local school, hospital district, BC Assessment, MFA and BC Transit levies, before the Home Owner Grant. 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 | Victoria | 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. | 74.6 (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. | 1,542 (2025) | 178 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
| Property crime per 100,000 | 3,096 (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. | 4 (2025) | 3 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
The Victoria CMA Crime Severity Index moved between 71 and 80 from 2021 to 2025 (72.7, 74.9, 80.2, 71.2, 74.6) with no sustained direction. The violent crime rate per 100,000 fell from 1,542 in 2021 to 1,439 in 2024 and then returned to 1,542 in 2025; the property crime rate fell from 3,319 in 2021 to 3,096 in 2025.
What the rates cover: Police-reported total violent Criminal Code violations, rate per 100,000, Victoria CMA, table 35-10-0177-01.
Homicides: Victoria CMA, 4 victims, 0.90 per 100,000 (table 35-10-0071-01). Counts were 5, 5, 2, 2 for 2021 through 2024.
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 | Victoria | Hialeah | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| January mean | 4.6 °C | 19.7 °C | Not directly comparable |
| July mean | 17.2 °C | 28.5 °C | Not directly comparable |
| Precipitation a year | 901 mm | 1,852 mm | Not directly comparable |
| Snowfall a year | 39 cm | 0 cm | Not directly comparable |
| Sunshine a year | 2,109 hours | 3,154 hours | Hialeah |
Environment and Climate Change Canada 1991-2020 normals at Victoria Int'l A (climate ID 1018620, at Sidney, 25 km north of downtown) for temperature, precipitation and snowfall. Sunshine is from the 1981-2010 normals at the same station; the 1991-2020 set does not publish a sunshine normal. Downtown is drier: Victoria Gonzales 1991-2020 normals show 5.8 C in January, 16.3 C in July and 110.6 mm in the wettest month against 155.3 mm at the airport.
Hazards: The region sits on the Cascadia subduction zone and carries Canada's highest earthquake risk; summers bring wildfire smoke from the BC interior and drought-driven watering restrictions, and winters bring atmospheric-river rain and occasional short snow events that stop traffic.
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 | Victoria | Hialeah | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $85,000 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. | 5.0% (July 2026) | 3.7% (July 2026) | Not directly comparable |
| Sales tax | 12% | 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. | 53.5% | 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. | $20,503 CAD | $13,449 USD | Not directly comparable |
In the 2021 Census the region's largest employers by sector were health care (29,750 workers), public administration (27,780), retail (22,540) and professional, scientific and technical services (19,655), per the South Island Prosperity Partnership's 2025 socio-economic profile. Victoria's unemployment rate is usually among the lowest of Canadian CMAs; the same report notes shortages in health care and construction and an ageing population.
Main sectors: Health care and social assistance, Public administration (provincial capital, CFB Esquimalt), Retail trade, Professional, scientific and technical services including software, Tourism, accommodation and food services.
BC has no payroll tax on employees beyond CPP and EI, and MSP health premiums were eliminated in 2020. Property transfer tax applies on purchase (1% to 3%, plus 20% foreign-buyer tax in the Victoria CMA) and a speculation and vacancy tax applies to homes left empty.
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 | Victoria | Hialeah | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| System | Victoria Regional Transit System (BC Transit buses and handyDART); no rail. BC Ferries and Harbour Air, Helijet and the Coho and Clipper ferries connect to Vancouver and Seattle. | 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% (2021) | 1.4% (2024) | Victoria |
| Walk or cycle to work | 15.3% (2021) | 2.3% (2024) | Victoria |
| Airport | Victoria International Airport (YYJ), at Sidney, 1,986,057 passengers in 2025, up 6.1% on 2024 and the busiest year since 2018 (Victoria Airport Authority 2025 Annual Report). Domestic-heavy; most international trips connect through Vancouver or Seattle. | 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 |
No verified systemwide annual total. BC Transit's 2025 year-in-review (Dec 19, 2025) reports the busiest route, the 95 Blink RapidBus, at more than 11,000 daily boardings; the Victoria Regional Transit Commission's Nov 2025 service plan reports 58.53 boardings per service hour by end of 2024, up 17.6% year over year and 21.2% above pre-COVID. Wikipedia cites APTA's Q4 2025 report at 26.56 million boardings for 2025 but the APTA PDF could not be fetched.
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 by BC's Medical Services Plan, with no premiums since 2020, and delivered by Island Health; prescription drugs outside hospital are covered through income-tested Fair PharmaCare, so many households carry employer extended-health plans for drugs, dental and physio. Greater Victoria has three hospitals, Royal Jubilee (the cardiac and cancer referral site for Vancouver Island), Victoria General (trauma and pediatrics) and Saanich Peninsula; the region has a well-known shortage of family doctors, and BC runs a central waitlist (Health Connect Registry) to attach new patients to primary care.
Education
The University of Victoria (about 22,000 students) is the main research university, with Camosun College for trades and transfer programs and Royal Roads University in Colwood for working adults; the University of Victoria is regularly placed in the top three Canadian comprehensive universities by Maclean's. Public K-12 is run by the Greater Victoria School District (SD61) in the core, with Sooke (SD62) in the fast-growing West Shore and Saanich (SD63) on the peninsula; there are no charter schools in BC, and French immersion seats in SD61 are allocated by lottery.
Living there
Victoria is a government and university town at the south tip of Vancouver Island with the mildest winters in Canada, a walkable and bikeable core, and a large retiree population; the trade-off is island logistics, with every mainland trip by 95-minute ferry or a short flight, and a housing market priced close to Vancouver's. Most growth since 2016 has gone to Langford and the West Shore, 15 to 25 km out along a congested Highway 1, while the City of Victoria itself is dense apartment and heritage-house neighbourhoods where a third of commuters walk or cycle. Downtown has visible street homelessness and open drug use concentrated around Pandora Avenue, which shows up in the higher-than-national violent crime rate for a metro this size.
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
Victoria's headline is the real estate board's single-family benchmark for the Victoria Core, $1,311,000 CAD in July 2026, 2.8% below a year earlier. Hialeah's 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. One is a benchmark modeled on a typical detached house and the other an index across every home in the city, the low-rise condominiums of the old city included, so the two are built differently as well as priced in different currencies. The Victoria house is 15.4 times the metro's 2020 median household income of $85,000 CAD and the Hialeah value about 7.8 times the city'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, Victoria's mortgage at 4.34% is $5,712 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 $7,415 CAD a year in Victoria, 0.566% on the city's 2026 rate, 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 $185 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 $6,515 CAD and $3,425 USD, roughly 92% and 72% of local median income. A two-bedroom averaged $2,076 CAD in October 2025, about 29% of Victoria's median income. Zillow's observed rent index for Hialeah, across all homes, was $2,374 USD in June 2026, about 50%, so the order that holds for owners turns over for renters. Only British Columbia caps rent on an existing tenancy, at 2.3% for 2026; Florida forbids rent control outright.
Homicide is the only count that crosses the border intact, and Victoria's is the lower. The Victoria metro recorded 4 homicide victims in 2025, 0.90 per 100,000, after 5, 5, 2 and 2 in the four years before. 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; at counts this small, one year says little. Geography matters to the rates: Victoria's cover a metro of 445,090 and Hialeah's a city of 230,968. The rest are different instruments. The Victoria metro's Crime Severity Index was 74.57 in 2025, just under the national 75.0; American cities have no equivalent. Victoria's violent rate of 1,542 per 100,000 counts every violent Criminal Code violation, common assault and uttering threats included; Hialeah's 178 is 412 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, 3,096 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. Victoria's index has moved sideways since 2021. Hialeah's direction is down: 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 were read on 2 October 2026 from a federal feed that can still be revised.
Victoria has the mildest winters in Canada and is still fifteen degrees colder in January. January averages 4.6 C at the Victoria airport and 5.8 C downtown at Gonzales, against 19.7 C at the Hialeah cooperative station, about half a mile outside the city's southern limit, where the normals count no nights at or below freezing. July averages 17.2 C in Victoria against 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 Victoria's 901.2 mm, and in the opposite season: Victoria's arrives as winter rain, 56% of Hialeah's from June to September. Victoria gets a 38.6 cm snow normal and Hialeah none. Victoria records 2,108.8 hours of sunshine on its 1981-2010 normals; the 3,154 hours this site stores for Hialeah are Miami's, from 1961-1990 records, because the source lists no Hialeah station. Victoria sits on the Cascadia subduction zone and carries Canada's highest earthquake risk, and its summers bring wildfire smoke and watering restrictions. Hialeah's hazards are hurricanes, heat and rain. 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. The last hurricane-force gusts came with Irma on 10 September 2017, which came ashore well to the southwest: Opa-locka Airport, 2.9 miles north of Hialeah's center, recorded a gust of 85 mph, and about 1,000 homes in Miami-Dade had major damage.
Victoria's economy is government and health care, and Hialeah's is health care, shipping and groceries. Victoria's largest sectors in the 2021 census were health care with 29,750 workers, public administration, which includes the provincial capital and CFB Esquimalt, with 27,780 and retail with 22,540. 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, and BLS counted 1,349,400 nonfarm jobs in Miami-Dade County in August 2026, 6,200 or 0.5% more than a year earlier. Most of Hialeah's workers use the county's jobs: 61.8% work outside the city, but only 9.8% outside Miami-Dade. 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%. The Victoria metro's was 5.0% seasonally adjusted and 5.3% unadjusted on the three-month average, so on the closest like-for-like basis Victoria's is more than a point and a half higher. Median household income was $85,000 CAD for the Victoria metro in 2020, against $57,151 USD in the City of Hialeah in 2024, $9,186 below Miami's. Both are older than their reputations suggest: Victoria has a large retiree population, and Hialeah's median age, 46.0, is second only to Cape Coral's among the Florida cities here. The tax systems collect in opposite places. British Columbia takes income and sales tax: about $20,503 CAD on $100,000, 20.5% before CPP and EI, a top combined rate of 53.5% and 12% on purchases. Florida takes no income tax, 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, an effective 1.69% on Hialeah's typical value against 0.566% in Victoria, and on these two homes the bills are close, $7,534 USD against $7,415 CAD.
Victoria's commuters leave the car far more often, though Hialeah has the rail. In the 2021 census 32.1% of City of Victoria commuters walked or cycled, the highest share of any Canadian city, and 11.1% took the bus; across the metro those shares fall to 15.3% and 7.7%, because most growth since 2016 has gone to Langford and the West Shore, 15 to 25 km out. That census was taken in May 2021 and understates normal transit use. Hialeah has two Metrorail stations inside its limits, 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 2.3% of its workers walked or cycled and 1.4% took transit, 1,727 of 119,984 on an estimate with a margin of error of 829, while 68.5% drove alone, 12.7% carpooled and 13.2% worked from home. BC Transit publishes no verified systemwide total for Victoria; its busiest route, the 95 Blink RapidBus, carries more than 11,000 boardings a day. 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 the City of Hialeah runs its own free buses, which its transit manager put at almost 30,000 riders a month in October 2023. Hialeah's mean commute is 30 minutes, and 11.4% of its commuters spend an hour or more. Victoria International handled 1,986,057 passengers in 2025 and sends most international trips through Vancouver or Seattle. Miami International, about 5.4 miles south of Hialeah's center, handled 55,314,661.
In Victoria the bill for care is settled by British Columbia's Medical Services Plan, with no premium since 2020, and Island Health runs Royal Jubilee, Victoria General for trauma and pediatrics and Saanich Peninsula. The problem there is attachment: family doctors are scarce enough that BC runs a central Health Connect Registry to place new patients. In Hialeah the problem is coverage. 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. No wait time figure was verified for either city, and no current bed count for Hialeah's hospitals. Greater Victoria runs three public school districts, with no charter schools anywhere in BC and French immersion seats drawn by lottery. 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. The University of Victoria teaches about 22,000 students; Miami Dade College has had a Hialeah campus since 1980.
What people underestimate is what each figure leaves out. A BC buyer hands over $24,220 in property transfer tax on the Victoria benchmark house. Florida taxes the loan instead, about $1,959 in documentary stamp and intangible tax on a $356,265 mortgage, and Miami-Dade, the one Florida county with its own deed rate, charges the seller 60 cents per $100 on a house, about $2,672 at the typical value, and $1.05 on a condominium, about $4,676. But the Hialeah carry buys no flood insurance, 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. The $7,534 assumes a homestead filed with the Miami-Dade Property Appraiser 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. A condominium adds an association fee this site estimates at $850 a month, moving upward since Florida's 2022 inspection and reserve legislation. Hialeah is also shrinking a little: it lost 2,210 residents, 0.9%, in 2024-25, a year in which Miami-Dade also shrank, and owners occupy 42.8% of its homes, against 52.6% across the county. Victoria, for its part, sits at the south tip of an island, where every mainland trip that is not a flight is a 95-minute ferry. Victoria's 4.34% renews after a five-year term, where 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.
Better here
- In the 2021 census 32.1% of City of Victoria commuters walked or cycled, the highest share of any Canadian city, against 2.3% in Hialeah in 2024.
- The Medical Services Plan covers physician and hospital care with nothing due at the point of use and has charged no premium since 2020, where Florida has not expanded Medicaid and 15.1% of Hialeah's residents were uninsured in 2024.
- July averages 17.2 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.
- Property tax is 0.566% of value on the city's 2026 rate, against an effective 1.69% on Hialeah's homesteaded typical value.
- A two-bedroom averaged $2,076 CAD in October 2025, about 29% of median household income, against about 50% on Zillow's Hialeah rent index, and BC caps an existing tenancy at 2.3% for 2026.
- There were 4 homicide victims in the metro in 2025, 0.90 per 100,000, against 3 in Hialeah at about 1.3.
Worse here
- The benchmark house was 15.4 times the metro's 2020 median household income of $85,000 CAD in July 2026, against about 7.8 times for Zillow's typical value in Hialeah.
- Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $6,515 CAD a month on the July 2026 benchmark, roughly 92% of that median, and a buyer pays $24,220 in property transfer tax at closing.
- Income tax on $100,000 is about $20,503 CAD for 2025 against $13,449 USD of federal tax in Hialeah, and sales tax is 12% against 7%.
- Unemployment was 5.3% on the unadjusted three-month average in July 2026, against 3.7% in the Miami metro on an unadjusted count.
- January averages 4.6 C at the airport under winter rain, against 19.7 C in Hialeah.
- Every mainland trip that is not a flight is a 95-minute ferry, and the city sits on the Cascadia subduction zone, with Canada's highest earthquake risk.
Choose Victoria if
- you want health coverage that stays with you between jobs
- you would rather walk or cycle to work inside a small core than drive
- you plan to rent, or already hold housing equity, because 15.4 times median household income is not a salary purchase
- you want a July averaging 17.2 C and no hurricane season
The Victoria guide · Neighbourhoods · Victoria rent vs buy · Victoria mortgage calculator
Better here
- Zillow's typical value of $445,331 USD in June 2026 is about 7.8 times the city's 2024 median household income, against 15.4 times for Victoria's benchmark house.
- Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $3,425 USD a month on that value, roughly 72% of local median income against about 92% in Victoria.
- Florida levies no income tax, so $100,000 pays $13,449 USD in federal tax for 2025 and $13,170 for 2026, against about $20,503 CAD in Victoria.
- January averages 19.7 C with no snow and no freezing nights on the normals, against 4.6 C and a 38.6 cm snow normal in Victoria.
- Unemployment in the Miami metro was 3.7% in July 2026, not seasonally adjusted, against 5.3% in Victoria on an unadjusted three-month average, and the City of Hialeah's own was 2.3%.
- Miami International, about 5.4 miles south, handled 55,314,661 passengers in 2025, and two Metrorail stations sit inside the city.
Worse here
- 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.
- Zillow's rent index for the city was $2,374 USD in June 2026, about 50% of a median household income of $57,151, against about 29% in Victoria.
- 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 and 2.3% walked or cycled, 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 to own a house on a salary above the local median rather than on equity you already hold
- you want a 19.7 C January and can plan a summer around heat, rain and 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 will buy on flood zone and elevation first
The Hialeah guide · Neighborhoods · Hialeah rent vs buy · Hialeah mortgage calculator
Victoria or Hialeah, in short
Is Victoria or Hialeah cheaper to live in?
Hialeah, to own, once each bill is read against its own city's pay, because the currencies do not convert here; Victoria, to rent. A Victoria owner pays about $6,515 CAD a month on mortgage, property tax and insurance for the benchmark single-family house, roughly 92% of the metro's 2020 median household income of $85,000 CAD. A Hialeah owner pays about $3,425 USD on Zillow's typical value of $445,331, roughly 72% of the city's 2024 median of $57,151 USD, even at 6.67% against 4.34%, with a property tax of about 1.69% of value and $505 a month of insurance that does not cover flood. That is still a heavy share, on the lowest median income of the Florida cities this site compares. A BC buyer also pays $24,220 in property transfer tax on the benchmark, and a Florida buyer about $1,959 in tax on the loan. Renting runs the other way: a two-bedroom averaged $2,076 CAD in October 2025 in Victoria, about 29% of median income, against Zillow's Hialeah rent index of $2,374 USD in June 2026, about 50%. Income and sales taxes favor Hialeah, $13,449 USD against about $20,503 CAD on $100,000 and 7% against 12%, though Victoria's taxes pay for health care.
Is Victoria or Hialeah safer?
Victoria, narrowly, on homicide, the only count that crosses the border intact: 4 victims in the Victoria metro in 2025, 0.90 per 100,000, against 3 in the City of Hialeah in the FBI's file, about 1.3 per 100,000, and at counts this small one year says little; Hialeah had 12 in 2021. The other rates measure different things. Victoria's violent rate of 1,542 per 100,000 counts every violent Criminal Code violation, common assault and uttering threats included, while Hialeah's 178 is murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault on the FBI's definitions, divided by the Census estimate and still open to revision. Property crime, 3,096 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. Victoria's metro Crime Severity Index was 74.57 in 2025, just under the national 75.0, and has moved sideways since 2021; Hialeah's violent offenses have fallen every year since 2022.
Which has the better climate, Victoria or Hialeah?
Victoria, unless warmth matters more to you than a mild summer. January averages 4.6 C at Victoria International and 19.7 C in Hialeah, but July is 17.2 C in Victoria against 28.5 C 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 901.2 mm, 56% of it from June to September where Victoria's falls in winter. Victoria gets a 38.6 cm snow normal and Hialeah none, with no freezing nights on its normals. Victoria's hazards are Cascadia earthquake risk and summer wildfire smoke; Hialeah's are hurricanes, heat and rain flooding on flat, low ground.
Where does Hialeah flood, if it is not on the coast?
On its own low, flat ground, from rain rather than the sea. FEMA's flood map puts City Hall in zone AH, its designation for shallow ponding, with a base flood elevation of 8 ft, on a panel effective since 11 September 2009. At the 2020 census 90,311 of the city's 223,109 residents, about two in five, lived in a special flood hazard area on the City's flood layer, 77,666 of them in zone AH and 12,645 in zone AE, and the exposure inside the city runs from under a tenth of residents in some parts to all of the newest ground west of Interstate 75. In those zones a lender can require a flood policy well inland from the coast, and the $505 a month of homeowners insurance in this site's figure does not include one. The rain that does it is heavy: Hialeah's normals give it 1,852 mm a year, the most of the Florida cities this site compares, and Miami International's wettest day since 2010 brought 9.70 in. Victoria's equivalent question is seismic, and no figure on this site prices it.
Where the figures come from
Housing figures are the ones behind each city's calculators, dated on those pages. The rest are listed here with the date they were retrieved. See the methodology for how facts, estimates and opinion are kept apart.
- Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions (table 98-10-0002-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: City population, Five-year growth
- Population and dwelling counts: Census metropolitan areas, census agglomerations and census subdivisions (table 98-10-0003-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: population.metro (2021 census count), population.growthPct5y (CMA comparison)
- Population estimates, July 1, by census metropolitan area and census agglomeration (table 17-10-0148-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: Metro population
- Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, police services in census metropolitan areas (table 35-10-0026-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: Crime Severity Index, Crime trend
- Incident-based crime statistics, by detailed violations, police services in census metropolitan areas (table 35-10-0177-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: Violent crime rate, Property crime rate, Crime trend
- Number and rate of homicide victims, by census metropolitan areas (table 35-10-0071-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: Homicides
- Canadian Climate Normals 1991-2020, Victoria Int'l A (climate ID 1018620) · Environment and Climate Change Canada · retrieved Supports: January mean, July mean, Annual precipitation, Annual snowfall
- Canadian Climate Normals 1991-2020, Victoria Gonzales (climate ID 1018610) · Environment and Climate Change Canada · retrieved Supports: climate.note (downtown comparison)
- Canadian Climate Normals 1981-2010, Victoria Int'l A · Environment and Climate Change Canada · retrieved Supports: Sunshine hours
- Household income statistics by dwelling and household characteristics: census metropolitan areas (table 98-10-0061-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: Median household income
- Household income statistics by household type: census subdivisions (table 98-10-0057-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: economy.medianHouseholdIncome (city figure in note)
- Labour force characteristics, three-month moving average, by census metropolitan area, seasonally adjusted (table 14-10-0459-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: Unemployment rate
- Greater Victoria Metropolitan Region Socio-Economic Profile 2025 · South Island Prosperity Partnership · retrieved Supports: Main sectors, Labour market
- Personal income tax rates · Province of British Columbia · retrieved Supports: Top marginal income tax
- Provincial sales tax (PST) · Province of British Columbia · retrieved Supports: Sales tax
- 2025 personal tax rates, British Columbia (combined federal and provincial) · EY Canada · retrieved Supports: Income tax on $100,000, Top marginal income tax
- Main mode of commuting by commuting duration, time leaving for work, age and gender: census metropolitan areas (table 98-10-0457-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: Transit commute share, Walk and cycle commute share
- Main mode of commuting by commuting duration, time leaving for work, age and gender: census subdivisions (table 98-10-0458-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: transit.transitModeSharePct (city), transit.walkBikeModeSharePct (city)
- Year in review: a successful 2025 for BC Transit · BC Transit · retrieved Supports: Transit ridership
- 2026/27 Annual Service Plan, Victoria Regional Transit Commission report #14 · BC Transit · retrieved Supports: Transit ridership
- 2025 Annual Report · Victoria Airport Authority · retrieved Supports: Airport passengers
- The sky's the limit: Victoria airport has high hopes for year ahead · Victoria News · retrieved Supports: transit.airport (exact passenger count 1,986,057)
- Hospitals and health centre locations · Island Health · 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
- July 2026 statistics: Victoria Real Estate Board monthly news release · Victoria Real Estate Board · retrieved Supports: Victoria Core single-family benchmark of $1,311,000, down 2.8% year over year, Victoria Core condominium benchmark of $548,600, down 2.2% year over year, Victoria Core townhouse benchmark of $857,300, 673 sales and 3,847 active listings board-wide in July 2026
- Rental Market Survey: Victoria (CY), average rent by bedroom type, October 2025 · Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation · retrieved Supports: One-bedroom average rent of $1,594, Two-bedroom average rent of $2,076, Three-bedroom-plus average rent of $3,035, Victoria CMA vacancy rate of 3.3%
- 2026 Property Tax Mill Rate · City of Victoria · retrieved Supports: 2026 Class 1 residential total rate of $5.6559 per $1,000 of taxable value, Municipal residential rate of $3.7229, of which $1.3782 is police, Additional school tax of 0.2000 above $3 million and 0.4000 above $4 million
- Home owner grant · Province of British Columbia · retrieved Supports: The grant of up to $770 on an eligible principal residence outside the northern and rural area
- 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
- Property transfer tax · Province of British Columbia · retrieved Supports: Transfer tax brackets, First-time buyer and new build exemptions
- Rent increases · Province of British Columbia · retrieved Supports: 2026 rent increase guideline of 2.3%
- 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