Live in Palm Lakes

Palm Lakes is the name its park, its school and its plats share. The plats recorded as Palm Lakes and Palm Springs Lakes hold 2,439 of the 7,366 residents the 2020 census counted inside this line. The line is the City's: District 1 of the Palm Springs and Amelia area in the Hialeah 2050 Master Plan, 652 acres from W 68th Street north to the Town of Miami Lakes and from the Palmetto Expressway east to W 12th Avenue. The plan names none of its districts, so the name is this site's, and nothing read here says where residents think Palm Lakes ends. It is not Palm Springs, the guide to the southeast, nor Palm Springs North beyond Miami Lakes.

It was built in about fifteen years and has barely changed. On the City's zoning layer, which carries the Property Appraiser's year built, 926 of the 935 single-family houses date from the 1960s and all 923 townhouse parcels from 1960 to 1974, many in plats named for their lakes. Three parcels have been built since 2020. Warehouses along the expressway make up the small industrial share: 38 of 524 parcel acres, 7%.

The lakes are the subdivisions', and so is part of the flood map. The City's lake layer puts about 122 acres of water inside the line, Lake Cecile, Palm Springs Lakes and Lake Stewart the largest. On the City's flood layer, which matched FEMA's map where checked, 3,409 residents (46%) live in a special flood hazard area, 1,977 in zone AH, shallow ponding, and 1,432 in zone AE. At the reference point the zone is AH, with a base flood elevation of 7 feet on the 2009 maps' NGVD29 datum, not comparable with newer maps elsewhere. The City says its groundwater sits just below the surface; no record read here says how any street in Palm Lakes fared in a storm. No resident is in a hurricane evacuation zone: the water to plan for is rain.

What Palm Lakes trades away is the train. The Palmetto Metrorail station is 5.3 km away in a straight line, and no stop within 5 km has a route every 15 minutes at midday; Route 54 stops at W 68th Street 15 times a weekday. The schools run the other way: the reference point is zoned for Palm Lakes Elementary, beside it, graded B for three years, Miami Lakes Middle, 3.3 km north, graded A for three years, and Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High, inside the line, C for 2026.

Every resident is in ZIP code 33014, which Zillow labels Miami Lakes: its typical value was $439,493 in August 2026, flat on the year, for 40,261 people, not a Palm Lakes price. A City of Hialeah address pays 18.6468 mills for 2025, with no County fire or library levy, so a homestead at that value owes about $7,425 a year and a landlord about $8,195. Miami Lakes, across W 84th Street, is a separate town: confirm which side a parcel is on. 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; no townhouse association's dues were read. The arithmetic is on the Hialeah page.