Live in Hialeah Park

Glenn Curtiss and James Bright took up the prairie northwest of Miami in 1921, drew the first plat and named the town, and opened its racetrack in the 1920s; the sources disagree on the year. After the 1926 hurricane Joseph Widener bought the track in 1930 and had a new grandstand, clubhouse and infield lake built, and stocked the lake with flamingos. It was listed on the National Register in 1979, lost its thoroughbred racing in 2001, ran quarter horses from 2009 to 2016 and has been a casino since 2013. Whether horses will race here in 2026-27 could not be confirmed.

The line is the City's master plan, and the name is the track's. The Hialeah 2050 plan numbers its districts and names none of them; this guide is its Racetrack and Transfer Station Districts 3 and 4, from W 4th Avenue to the city line at NW 37th Avenue between 21st and 33rd Streets. The 2020 census counted 11,569 residents in 4,171 homes, 9,724 of them in the plat simply called Hialeah. The subdivision actually named Hialeah Park is not here: its 979 residents are in Essex Village, south of 21st Street. The track takes 202 acres on the City's parks layer, Hialeah Hospital sits on E 25th Street, and 128 acres of parcels, 17% of the total, carry an industrial designation: land, not jobs.

The count is already behind. The City's zoning layer records 22 parcels built in 2020 or later inside the line, with 709 homes on them, and 559 of those are in a single building finished in 2025 at 955 E 25th Street, in the City's Transfer Station district beside the station. Every resident figure here is 2020's and misses it.

Water here is rain, not surge. On the City's flood layer, which matches FEMA's map, 6,868 residents, 59%, live in zone AH, FEMA's designation for shallow ponding, and 2% of the area is zone AE; the reference point itself, on E 4th Avenue at E 27th Street, is zone X. The maps took effect on 11 September 2009 and record elevations on the older NGVD29 datum, so a base flood elevation here cannot be compared with one in another Florida city. The City holds CRS class 7, worth 15% off flood insurance premiums in the zone, and applies the 50% rule: improvements worth half the building's value within five years bring the whole house up to new-construction standards. A homeowners policy does not cover flood, and no record says how these streets fared in any storm. The point is in storm surge planning zone E, with 4,231 residents, on a County layer last edited in 2019.

Two rail systems meet here. Metrorail's Hialeah station is on 21st Street, the south line, with trains every 15 minutes at midday; the Tri-Rail and Metrorail Transfer Station is inside the line at E 25th Street, with Tri-Rail about hourly; Metrobus route 79 runs every 15 minutes along E 25th Street. ZIP code 33013, which holds 7,347 of the residents, had a Zillow value of $566,422 in August 2026, up 2.1% on the year, for the whole ZIP. 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 value owes about $9,792 a year on the base exemptions and a landlord about $10,562. 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's utility bill; whether any City assessment is also on the tax bill was not checked. The arithmetic is on the Hialeah page.