Live in Hialeah Estates

A place name, three plats and a master plan line. The City keeps no map of neighborhoods. Its Hialeah 2050 Master Plan divides the city into areas and numbered districts, and this guide is the east half of District 4 in the area the plan calls North of Okeechobee, split on W 8th Avenue where the plan splits it: 328 acres between W 8th and W 4th Avenues, from W 29th Street north to W 44th Place. The name is the place point OpenStreetMap maps inside. The 2020 census counted 4,331 residents in 1,393 homes here. The Hialeah Estates plat holds only 762 of them and Westhaven Park 1,040; the largest share, 1,586, lives on the Industrial Center plats, which despite the name are streets of houses. Nothing read here says where residents think Hialeah Estates ends.

One decade built most of it. Hialeah grew from 3,958 people in 1940 to 66,972 in 1960. On the City's zoning layer, 887 of the 1,138 parcels with a recorded year were built in the 1950s, with a median of 1956: Westhaven Park 1955, Hialeah Estates and the Industrial Center plats 1956, Paula Park and Bonmill 1957. 1,045 parcels are single-family houses, on lots with a median of about 7,100 square feet, and R-1 zoning covers almost all of them. A few small apartment buildings went up in the 1960s, and nothing has been built since 2020. None of the land is designated industrial. The houses are the same age, so what differs is the roof, the wiring, the plumbing and whatever has been added since.

A third of the residents live in a mapped flood zone. On the City's flood layer, which matches FEMA's effective map, 1,431 residents, 33%, live in zone AH, FEMA's designation for shallow flooding, on 36.3% of the area; the rest is zone X, and so is the reference point. The maps date from 2009 and use the older NGVD29 datum, so compare a base flood elevation only with another Hialeah figure. The water here is rain: the City names Irene in 1999 and the No-Name Storm of 2000 as floods that left many areas under water for extended periods, and no record read says how any street here fared. A homeowners policy does not cover flood; the City's Class 7 rating takes 15% off a flood policy in zone AH and 5% outside it, and the City's substantial improvement rule is 50% of a building's value over five years, which matters for a 1950s house that needs a lot of work.

Two schools inside the line, and one of them just changed. Miami-Dade County Public Schools assigns by address. Mae M. Walters Elementary, graded A for three years running, and Henry H. Filer Middle, C for 2026, are both inside the line and zone 2,435 residents on the County's layers; the point itself is zoned for Meadowlane Elementary, also A, and Palm Springs Middle, C. On 17 June 2026 the School Board adopted new Filer Middle boundaries, and nothing read says whether the layer carries them. Metrobus 54 stops on W 8th Avenue about every 30 minutes; the nearest service every 15 minutes is at Hialeah Station, about 2.2 km away.

No price index follows the line. Every resident is in ZIP code 33012, whose Zillow value was $384,711 in August 2026, down 0.8% on the year. Every City of Hialeah address paid 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 $6,404 a year on the base exemptions and a landlord about $7,174. Save Our Homes holds a homestead's assessed value to 3% a year or inflation and ends with a sale, so the seller's bill understates yours. Garbage is a $36.50 monthly charge 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.