Live in Slade Park

The name is ours; the line is the City's. Hialeah keeps no map of neighborhoods. Its Hialeah 2050 Master Plan divides the city into numbered districts drawn on street lines, and this guide is the plan's West Hialeah District 2: from W 28th Avenue east to W 20th Avenue and the Palmetto Expressway, and from W 68th Street north to the city line at W 84th Street and Interstate 75, with Miami Lakes beyond. We call it Slade Park after the City's 13-acre park at its middle, which honors Carl F. Slade, a World War II officer whose Hialeah funeral homes ran an ambulance service for the City, at almost no cost, when it had none of its own.

This is late ground for Hialeah. The city incorporated in 1925 around the racetrack far to the southeast. Out here, the City's parcel records date the 1,083 single-family houses to between 1988 and 1998, half of them by 1990, on plats such as Florida Fruit Lands Company Subdivision No. 1, which alone held 2,990 residents in 2020. The condominiums came alongside, recorded with the state from Galeria Villas in 1991 to Terrazas del Sol, 174 units, in 2006. The 2020 census counted 8,706 residents in 2,899 homes on 666 acres, and the City's layer records one parcel built since.

Two in five parcel acres are industrial. On the City's Zoning layer 176 of the 449 parcel acres carry an industrial designation, almost all of it north of about W 76th Street, on plats named International Commerce Park and Palmetto I-75 Industrial Center: warehouses and light manufacturing between the houses and the interstate. That is acres by designation, not jobs, but a house on the north side can back onto loading docks. On the south edge, Palmetto General Hospital has stood on W 68th Street since 1971, when it opened with 50 beds; the City's layer lists 368 now, about 0.7 km from the reference point.

The water here is rain, and it ponds. FEMA's maps, in force since 11 September 2009, put 47.5% of the area and 3,393 residents, 39% of the 2020 count, in zone AH, FEMA's zone for shallow ponding; the reference point is AH with a base flood elevation of 8 feet, on the older NGVD29 datum, so do not compare it with another city's. No layer records which streets flooded in a given storm: this is exposure, not history. The City's Community Rating System class 7 takes 15% off a federal flood premium inside a flood zone, and its rule treats improvements worth half a building's value within five years as new construction. Flood insurance is a separate policy from homeowners.

No price index follows the line. Every resident is in ZIP code 33016, whose Zillow value was $293,905 in August 2026, down 4.4% on the year; Zillow labels the ZIP Miami Lakes, and it is not a Slade Park figure. 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 that value owes about $4,711 a year after the homestead exemptions (the second $25,000 has been adjusted for inflation since 2025); a landlord about $5,480. 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; other charges on the tax bill were not checked. Plan on a car: no stop within 5 km has a bus every 15 minutes, and the nearest Metrorail is 5.1 km south. The arithmetic is on the Hialeah page.