Live in Casas Park

Casas Park is this site's name, not the City's. The Hialeah 2050 Master Plan draws this square as District 1 of its West Hialeah area and numbers it without naming it, so the guide takes its name from the City park near its middle, Senator Roberto Casas Park. Roberto Casas, born in Havana in 1931, sat in the Florida House from 1982 to 1988 and the Senate from 1988 to 2000, and died in 2021. No public body or trade source read here names the district, and its largest plat, the Chambers Land Company subdivision with 5,663 residents, is a land company's name. The line is W 84th Street on the north, W 28th Avenue on the east, W 68th Street on the south and NW 97th Avenue on the west, where the separate City of Hialeah Gardens begins: 647 acres.

Sixteen thousand people, in houses of one generation. The 2020 census counted 16,942 residents in 5,480 homes, about 26 residents an acre, against about four in Hialeah Heights across W 84th Street. Of the parcels on the City's zoning layer with a recorded year, 1,591 were built in the 1990s and 507 in the 1980s; the median is 1992, and only seven are from 2010 or later. Most are single-family lots, 1,751 of them, with 315 cluster homes, and single-family R-1 zoning covers about 127 acres. Little has been built since the count, so the 2020 figures still describe the place, unlike Hialeah Heights next door.

A house from the early 1990s carries the questions of its age. Its roof, its permits and any room added since are what to ask about, and the City holds the permit history. The north edge works for a living: 63 acres of parcels along W 84th Street, 13% of the guide's parcel acres, carry an industrial designation, with light manufacturing, warehouses and stores. That is acres by designation, not jobs. Interstate 75 runs just beyond it.

Most of it is outside the flood zones. On the City's flood layer, which matches FEMA's 2009 map at the points checked, 88.1% of the area is zone X, and the reference point is X; 1,186 residents, 7%, lived on blocks in zone AH, FEMA's designation for shallow ponding, against 40% across the city. Zone X is not a promise. The City says Hialeah's groundwater lies just below the surface and that Hurricane Irene in 1999 and the No-Name Storm of 2000 left many areas flooded for extended periods; no record read here says how these streets fared in either. A flood policy is separate from homeowners insurance wherever the house is, 5% cheaper outside the zone under the City's CRS class 7, and the City's 50% rule brings a building up to new-construction standards when work within five years reaches half its market value. The guide is in no storm surge evacuation zone on the County's 2019 layer.

No price index follows the line. Every resident is in ZIP code 33018, whose Zillow value was $528,171 in August 2026, down 0.9% on the year; the ZIP held 54,273 people in 2020 and takes in the new houses of Hialeah Heights too, so it is not a Casas Park price. Every City of Hialeah address pays 18.6468 mills for 2025, with no County fire or library levy because the City runs both, so a homestead at that figure owes about $9,079 a year on the base exemptions and a landlord about $9,849. Save Our Homes caps a homestead's assessed value 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 utility account; whether a City assessment also sits on the tax bill was not checked. The arithmetic is on the Hialeah page. The City's Flamingo circulator stops 0.1 km from the reference point about every 40 minutes, but Palmetto, the nearest Metrorail station, is 5.8 km away in a straight line, and no stop within 5 km has a bus every 15 minutes.