The original town around City Hall, Sun-Tan Village by the Leah Arts District, and Essex Village
The city below 21st Street from W 4th Avenue and Okeechobee Road to the east line: Downtown Hialeah around City Hall, Sun-Tan Village and Essex Village.
Photograph: the 1926 Seaboard Air Line station at Hialeah Market, about 2.3 km south in the Essex Village guide, not a photograph of Sun-Tan Village · Phillip Pessar from Miami, USA · CC BY 2.0 · source.jpg){kind=link}
This area is the plan's Downtown and Southeast: the city below W and E 21st Street, from W 4th Avenue and Okeechobee Road on the Miami Canal, across from Miami Springs, to the city line with Brownsville, Gladeview and Miami, 35,015 residents and 12,534 housing units on 2,231 acres in 2020. Every guide here is one or more of the plan's numbered districts, which the plan draws and does not name, so the name on each is the one this site gives it. Downtown Hialeah, the plan's Districts 1 and 3, 18,167 residents on 751 acres, takes the City's zoning name for its center: 15,626 of them live in the Downtown Urban Center, and City Hall, at 501 Palm Avenue, is inside. Sun-Tan Village, District 2, 6,446 residents, takes the name of the place OpenStreetMap maps there, beside the Leah Arts District. Essex Village, Districts 4 and 5, 10,402 residents on 980 acres, takes the name of a plat that holds 2,245 of them, and holds the plat named Hialeah Park as well. 3 guides are listed below.
Palm Avenue, East 4th Avenue, 9th Street and Hialeah Drive run through this area, and this is the original town. On the City's flood layer 51% of Downtown Hialeah's residents and 50% of Essex Village's live in a FEMA special flood hazard area, and the base flood elevation at City Hall is 8 feet, in zone AH, FEMA's designation for shallow flooding. The Leah Arts District is warehouses with 8 residents in 2020, and it is why Sun-Tan Village is between 17% and 19% industrial by parcel acres; Essex Village is 28%. The City's transit station zoning takes in 903 Sun-Tan Village residents near the Transfer Station and 27 in Essex Village by Hialeah Market Station. A Florida homeowners policy covers wind and not rising water, so FEMA's flood map for the exact address, the elevation certificate, the seller's disclosure of past flooding and a quote for a separate flood policy belong in any offer here.
3 communities, guide by guide
Downtown Hialeah
The Town of Hialeah plat around City Hall, W 4th to East 4th Avenue from 21st Street south to Okeechobee Road and the Miami Canal, 751 acres and about 18,200 residents in 2020: Palm Avenue, the Hialeah Metrorail station on 21st Street and nine in ten of the residents of the City's Downtown Urban Center zoning district.
- 18,167
- Residents of the 154 census blocks inside Downtown and Southeast Districts 1 and 3, in 7,115 housing units on 751 acres, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census; the master plan's lines, Plusurbia for the City of Hialeah, 2025
- 15,626
- Residents inside the City's Hialeah Downtown Urban Center zoning district (HDUC and EHDUC), 86% of the guide and about nine in ten of everyone the district holds, City of Hialeah zoning layers and the 2020 census
Essex Village
The southeast corner below E 9th Street, East 4th Avenue to the city line, 980 acres and about 10,400 residents in 2020: Essex Village and the Hialeah Park subdivision, the Curtiss e-Library, Babcock Park, the Cuban Culture in Exile Heritage Park and the Hialeah Market Tri-Rail station.
- 10,402
- Residents of the 182 census blocks inside Downtown and Southeast Districts 4 and 5 of the City's 2050 Master Plan, in 3,486 housing units on 980 acres; the Essex Village plats hold 2,245 of them, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 50%
- Share of residents in FEMA's special flood hazard area: 5,236 of 10,402 in 2020, 5,221 of them in zone AH, shallow ponding, on 55% of the area; zone AH with a base flood elevation of 8 feet (NGVD29) at the reference point, on maps effective 11 September 2009, City of Hialeah Flood Zones layer and FEMA, 2026
Sun-Tan Village
East 4th Avenue to the city line between E 9th and E 21st Streets, 499 acres and about 6,400 residents in 2020: Sun-Tan Village's houses and, on the east side, the warehouses of the City's Leah Arts District.
- 6,446
- Residents of the 89 census blocks inside Downtown and Southeast District 2 of the City's 2050 Master Plan, in 1,933 housing units on 499 acres; the Sun-Tan Village plats hold 2,478 of them, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 83%
- Share of the 1,518 residential parcels with a recorded year built that went up in the 1940s or 1950s (1,260); the median year is 1950, and 1,286 of the 1,727 parcels are single-family homes, City of Hialeah Zoning layer, read October 2026
Photographs: The lift bridge over the Miami Canal by Jorge Elías from Miami, Florida, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons · Painted houses on a southeast street by Phillip Pessar, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
