Live in Bucky Dent Park

The name is this site's, not the City's. Hialeah keeps no map of neighborhoods. Its 2050 Master Plan divides the city into numbered districts and names none of them, and this guide is the east half of West Hialeah District 3, cut on W 24th Avenue where the plan's sub-district line runs: 342 acres between W 24th Avenue and the Palmetto Expressway, from W 68th Street down to W 52nd Street, where the City of Hialeah Gardens begins. The name is the 25-acre City park at its middle, which the City named for Russell Earl "Bucky" Dent, the former major league shortstop who grew up in Hialeah. Nothing here claims to know where residents think it ends.

The 2020 census counted 10,612 residents in 3,690 homes, most of them on a few County plats: Chambers Land Company holds 4,490, the two Michelle Jardins sections 2,670 and Cielo Gardens 1,145. On the City's zoning layer 137 of 260 parcel acres are high-density residential and 34, or 13%, carry an industrial designation, which counts acres of parcels, not buildings or jobs. The layer records no parcel built here since 2020. How many homes are owned rather than rented was not tabulated for this guide.

By Hialeah's standard this is dry ground. Citywide, 40% of residents lived in a FEMA special flood hazard area in 2020; here it was 351 of 10,612, or 3.3%, all in zone AH, FEMA's designation for shallow ponding. By area the share is 14.8%, because lakes count in acreage. The reference point is zone X, and no resident is in a storm surge evacuation zone. The maps are FEMA's of 11 September 2009, on the older NGVD29 datum, and flooding here is rain on high groundwater, not surge; no record read for this guide says how any street fared in Irma or the June 2024 rains. The City's rating class 7 takes 15% off a flood policy inside the hazard area and 5% outside, and its 50% rule brings a building up to new-construction standards once work within five years reaches half its market value.

The schools are simple, which is unusual for Hialeah. Seventeen of this site's twenty Hialeah guides are split between zones; on the County's layers every 2020 resident of this one is zoned for Ben Sheppard Elementary, across W 24th Avenue, graded B for 2026; Palm Springs Middle, 2.3 km east, C; and Hialeah Gardens Senior High, 2.6 km west in the next city, A. Inside the line, José Martí MAST 6-12 Academy, graded A, admits by magnet application.

No price index follows the line, and the ZIP's is falling. Every resident is in ZIP code 33016, whose Zillow value was $293,905 in August 2026, down 4.4% on the year, but the ZIP held 45,714 people in 2020 and Zillow labels it Miami Lakes. Every City of Hialeah address paid 18.6468 mills for 2025, with no County fire or library levy because the City runs both: at the ZIP figure about $4,711 a year for a homesteaded buyer and $5,480 for a landlord. Save Our Homes caps a homestead's assessment at 3% a year and ends with a sale, so the seller's bill understates yours; garbage is $36.50 a month on the City's utility account. The arithmetic is on the Hialeah page. This is car country: Route 54 stops on W 60th Street about hourly at midday, the City's Flamingo circulator about every 40 minutes, and the nearest train is the Palmetto Metrorail terminus, 3.7 km south.