Live in Westland

Westland is the corner's name, and this guide borrows it. Hialeah keeps no map of neighborhoods. Its 2050 Master Plan divides the city into numbered districts and names none of them, and this guide is two of them, North of Okeechobee Districts 1 and 3: 910 acres between the Palmetto Expressway and W 12th Avenue, from W 53rd Street down to W 29th Street and Okeechobee Road, with Hialeah Gardens across the expressway and Medley across the road and the Miami Canal. Westland Mall, Westland Hialeah Senior High and several County plats carry the name here, though four Westland plats are north of W 53rd Street, in Westhaven Heights. Nothing here claims to know where residents think Westland ends.

A third of the land is commerce. On the City's zoning layer 247 of 741 parcel acres are designated commercial and 137, or 18.5%, industrial, which counts acres of parcels, not buildings or jobs. Westland Mall opened in 1969; Larkin Community Hospital's Palm Springs Campus, 247 beds, opened in 1965 as Palm Springs General; Southern Winds Hospital and Miami Dade College's Hialeah Campus are inside too. The 2020 census counted 17,749 residents in 7,067 homes, and OpenStreetMap carries the names of five mobile home and trailer parks along W 29th Street; whether each still operates was not checked. The mall's Sears closed in February 2020, and in 2023 Codina Partners bought the 15-acre site and joined the mall's owner in planning a project with rental homes; no City approval was read for this guide, so its size and timing are not stated here.

Three in ten residents live in a mapped flood zone. On the City's flood layer 5,344 of 17,749 were in zone AH in 2020, FEMA's designation for shallow ponding, against 40% citywide; by area it is 42.4%, lakes included. The reference point is zone X, and 3,430 residents are in the County's storm surge Zone D. The maps are FEMA's of 11 September 2009, on the older NGVD29 datum, and the water here is rain on groundwater that, in the City's words, lies just below the surface; no record read for this guide says how any street fared in Irma or the June 2024 rains. The City's rating class 7 takes 15% off a flood policy inside the hazard area and 5% outside, and its 50% rule brings a building up to new-construction standards once work within five years reaches half its market value.

Every school zone splits this guide, and two moved this year. The point is zoned for Meadowlane Elementary, graded A, but 5,487 residents are zoned for three other elementaries. It is zoned for Hialeah Gardens Middle, A, 4.1 km away in the next city, while 3,430 residents are zoned for Henry H. Filer Middle, C for 2026. And it is zoned for Westland Hialeah Senior High, inside the line, B for 2026. The School Board redrew Filer's and Westland Hialeah Senior's boundaries from 1 July 2026, and the County's layers may predate that change.

No price index follows the line. Nearly every resident is in ZIP code 33012, whose Zillow value was $384,711 in August 2026, down 0.8% on the year, but the ZIP held 70,260 people in 2020. Every City of Hialeah address paid 18.6468 mills for 2025, with no County fire or library levy because the City runs both: at the ZIP figure about $6,404 a year for a homesteaded buyer and $7,174 for a landlord. Save Our Homes caps a homestead's assessment 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 account. The arithmetic is on the Hialeah page. Thirty-three bus stops inside the line carry Routes 54, 103 and 183 and both City circulators, and Palmetto Metrorail station, 2.2 km away, has trains every 15 minutes.