Live in Essex Village

The name covers a fifth of the people. Hialeah keeps no map of neighborhoods; its 2050 Master Plan draws numbered districts on streets, and this guide is Downtown and Southeast Districts 4 and 5, 980 acres south of East 9th Street and east of East 4th Avenue, down to the Miami Canal and the city line. The census counted 10,402 residents in 3,486 homes there in 2020. The Essex Village plats hold 2,245 of them; the rest live on a dozen others, among them 815 on Sun-Tan Village plats and 979 on the plat named Hialeah Park, which is here and not at the racetrack, 2.9 km north. No source says where residents think Essex Village ends.

The houses are of one era. The City's parcel records date 2,050 residential lots, and 1,728 of them, 84%, were built in the 1940s or 1950s; 1,866 parcels are single-family houses. Eleven have been built on since 2020, with 107 units, 104 of them in four apartment buildings. Older still is the Seaboard Air Line Railway's station of 1926 at 1200 SE 10th Court, a Mediterranean Revival depot where the Orange Blossom Special called until 1953 and passenger trains until 1972. It has been on the National Register since 1995, and Tri-Rail has stopped beside it since 1989, at what is now called Hialeah Market.

Half of the people live in the flood zone. On the City's copy of FEMA's map, 55% of the area and 5,236 residents, half, are in the flood zone, almost all of them in zone AH, the shallow-ponding zone. At the reference point the base flood elevation is 8 feet, in the older NGVD29 datum the 2009 maps use, so it is not comparable with a figure quoted in another city. The City's Community Rating System class 7 takes 15% off a flood policy in the zone and 5% outside it, and flood cover is separate from a homeowners policy. Work over five years that reaches half a building's value brings it up to new-construction rules, by the City's 50% rule. No record read here says how any of these streets fared in a particular storm, and none is claimed.

Two-thirds are also in a surge zone. 6,882 residents are in storm surge planning zone D, which the County orders out only for the strongest storms; its layer dates from 2019. Along the city line on the east, the City's zoning gives 28% of parcel acres to industry, 205 of 724: acres by designation, not jobs.

No price index follows the line. Nearly everyone is in ZIP code 33010, whose Zillow value was $532,048 in August 2026, up 1.7% on the year. Every address in the city pays 18.6468 mills for 2025, with no County fire or library levy because the City runs both, so a homestead at the ZIP figure owes about $9,151 a year and a landlord about $9,921. Save Our Homes caps a homestead's assessed value at 3% a year and resets on a sale, so the seller's bill understates yours; portability can carry your own benefit from a previous Florida homestead. Garbage is $36.50 a month on the City utility account; whether any City assessment also sits on the tax bill was not checked. The arithmetic is on the Hialeah page.