Where to live in Hialeah

Where the neighborhoods come from. Hialeah does not map neighborhoods. Its map server carries code enforcement districts, garbage zones, zoning overlays and Miami-Dade County's commission districts, and nothing named for a neighborhood. What the City has drawn for the whole city, without overlaps, is the division in its 2050 Master Plan's district volume: six areas and 29 numbered districts, each drawn on street centerlines. The plan publishes no map layer, so the districts were redrawn here between the streets its maps name and clipped to the City's boundary; together they take in every census block in the city once. The districts are numbered, not named, so every guide is one or more whole districts with a name for what is inside it: the plan's own where one fits (Hialeah Heights, Amelia), a place OpenStreetMap maps (Palm Springs, Hialeah Estates, Sun-Tan Village), a County plat that real-estate listings use as a neighborhood name (Mango Hill, Lago Grande, Essex Village, Westhaven Heights), the City's zoning name for its center (Downtown Hialeah), the name the mall, school and plats give the corner (Westland), the historic plat (Seminola), the racetrack (Hialeah Park), and Palm Lakes, whose City park, school and plats share the name. Six are this site's own labels, from the City park at the guide's middle: Casas Park, Slade Park, Bucky Dent Park, North Twin Lakes, Milander Park and Bright Park. Four of the plat names cover only part of their guide, and each of those guides says how much. Two guides divide a district on the plan's own sub-district line: Lago Grande and Bucky Dent Park on W 24th Avenue, and Mango Hill and Hialeah Estates on W 8th Avenue. Each guide's population is the 2020 census count of the blocks inside it, and the same method over the whole city returns its published 223,109 residents and 77,475 housing units exactly. Only the City of Hialeah is covered. Hialeah Gardens, Medley, Miami Springs, Miami Lakes and Opa-locka are separate cities; West Little River, Gladeview, Brownsville, Westview and Palm Springs North are unincorporated Miami-Dade; and Amelia Earhart Park, which two guides border, is County land. A Hialeah mailing address does not settle which one a house is in: the Miami-Dade Property Appraiser's record for the property does.

The five areas are the City's. The City publishes other divisions, and none of them is a way to choose where to live. Its map server has no council districts at all; the commission districts on it are the County's thirteen. Its seven code enforcement districts are inspectors' beats, its two garbage zones are pickup days, and its Downtown Urban Center, Leah Arts District and transit districts are zoning overlays a few blocks wide. The master plan's six areas are the only City map of the whole city in named parts, and this site takes them as drawn with one fold: Hialeah Heights, the plan's first area, 7,801 residents in 2020 on the newest ground west of Interstate 75, is counted in West Hialeah, which it touches across NW 138th Street. By the plan's lines, in 2020, West Hialeah held 55,305 residents with Hialeah Heights in it, Palm Springs and Amelia 59,992, North of Okeechobee 44,106, Racetrack and Transfer Station 28,691 and Downtown and Southeast 35,015. Every guide falls wholly in one area. The plan writes its names with an ampersand and this site spells them out, and North of Okeechobee is the plan's name for the wedge above Okeechobee Road between the Palmetto Expressway and W 4th Avenue, though the whole city is north of that road.

What is not here. The twenty neighborhoods this list starts with held 220,180 of the city's 223,109 residents in 2020, 98.7%. The one district left out is the plan's North of Okeechobee District 2, 2,929 residents between W 12th and W 4th Avenues south of W 53rd Street, almost all of it the Palm Springs Fifth Addition plats: by name it belongs to Palm Springs, but the plan puts it in another area, and every guide here sits in one. Named subdivisions too small to stand alone in 2020 are inside the guides: Bonterra, Aquabella and Bellagio in Hialeah Heights, Trojan Park in Seminola, Carole Anne Park in Milander Park, Palm Springs Villas in Palm Springs, and the mobile home parks in Westland and Seminola. Some places are not where their names suggest: the plat named Hialeah Park, 979 residents, is in Essex Village, south of the track; West Hialeah Heights is an older plat in Mango Hill, nowhere near Hialeah Heights; and Westhaven Park is a plat in Hialeah Estates, not in Westhaven Heights. And the counts are 2020's. The city has built since mostly at its western edge: the City's zoning layer records 872 parcels built in 2020 or later in Hialeah Heights, against 22 or fewer in every other guide, so that guide's count is well under its population today.