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Place dossier plate
SheetFL-HIALEAH-GARDENS-FL · Hialeah Gardens, FL 22,634 pop · income 37th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Hialeah Gardens
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Hialeah Gardens on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Jasmine Estat… · lowest
51,301
Jasmine Estat… · lowest
51,301 median HH income
32.6% of the leader · rank #1
Longview · near
60,844
Longview · near
60,844 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #2
Hialeah Garde… · this city
60,855
Hialeah Garde… · this city
60,855 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #3
Tullahoma · near
60,855
Tullahoma · near
60,855 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #4
Boody · near
60,859
Boody · near
60,859 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #5
Houston · near
60,865
Houston · near
60,865 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #6
Millbrae · highest
157,567
Millbrae · highest
157,567 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Hialeah Gardens on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 22,634.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Hialeah Gardens - the verdict
Hialeah Gardens ranks in the 37th percentile for household income and the 61st percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
37th
percentile, household income
68th
percentile, home value
73rd
percentile, median rent
61st
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Hialeah Gardens, FL
22,634 people live in Hialeah Gardens, Florida - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Hialeah Gardens households earn a median of $60,855 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 11.9%. Home values in Hialeah Gardens run a median of $319,200, and the median resident age is 43.1 years. 19.9% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 61.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 0 residential building permits were authorized in Hialeah Gardens (No Permits), down 100% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Hialeah Gardens reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1083.2 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Florida carries a cost-of-living premium: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Florida at 103.4 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Above Average). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,526 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Florida's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). Natural-hazard exposure scores 75.7 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Hialeah Gardens's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from comparison shortlist to work and mobility to schools and households to reported crime to population change to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Hialeah Gardens, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for Hialeah Gardens?
Within Florida, the closest population matches are DeBary (22,602 residents, $87,391 income); The Crossings (22,359 residents, $83,643 income); Marion Oaks (22,296 residents, $70,056 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Corcoran, CA (22,626 residents); Anthem, AZ (22,622 residents); Bear, DE (22,604 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
What does the journey to work look like in Hialeah Gardens?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.9%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
What does the education layer cover for Hialeah Gardens?
The NCES join finds 8 public schools within the city match. 19.9% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Hialeah Gardens?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1083.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 53% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Population change
Is Hialeah Gardens growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -178 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 0 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
-0.8%
2025 estimate
22,777
2020 estimate
22,955
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Hialeah Gardens?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 11.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
Household income
$60,855
Home value
$319,200
Value / income
5.2×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 11.9% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
D
City profile score · Hialeah Gardens, FL
42/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Violent crime A-
63 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$60,855
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
19.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
11.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living F
103.4 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Hialeah Gardens profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 80/100 (A-) · 63 /100k
Household income: 36/100 (F) · $60,855
Bachelor's+ share: 34/100 (F) · 19.9%
Poverty rate: 32/100 (F) · 11.9%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Where Hialeah Gardens sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Hialeah Gardens's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Hialeah Gardens highlighted among 25 peers.Read the chart values
Hialeah Gardens, FL (this city): home $319,200, crime 1,083/100k
Corcoran, CA : home $220,500, crime 1,539/100k
North Plainfield, NJ : home $350,700, crime 1,612/100k
Avon, IN : home $300,600, crime 1,742/100k
Sunny Isles Beach, FL : home $489,700, crime 1,328/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Hialeah Gardens compare to other US cities?
Hialeah Gardens measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income37% higher than other cities
Home value68% pricier than other cities
Median rent73% pricier than other cities
Safety61% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Florida and the picture shifts: Hialeah Gardens ranks #35 of 120 Florida cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Hialeah Gardens against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Florida only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Florida-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Hialeah Gardens near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Hialeah Gardens ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Hialeah Gardens only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#589 of 903
35th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#394 of 894
56th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#284 of 930
69th percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#610 of 930
34th percentile in Florida
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Florida only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
37th percentile nationally for median household income · 61st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Hialeah Gardens's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Hialeah Gardens's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Hialeah Gardens's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$319,20032nd percentilemore affordable than 32% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,246 of 15,516
More affordable than 15% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,722 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 5.2×, Hialeah Gardens sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,246 of 15,516 and #2,722 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$60,855Hialeah Gardens, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Hialeah Gardens, FL median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Hialeah Gardens, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)19.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)11.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)61.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
22,634
Median Income
$60,855
Median Home Value
$319,200
Median Age
43.1
Poverty Rate
11.9%
Labor force participation
61.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
19.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1083.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
63.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1019.7
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
8
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Hialeah Gardens's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
22,955 residents
2021
22,544 residents
2022
22,843 residents
2023
23,134 residents
2024
23,058 residents
2025
22,777 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
Total Permits (2024)
0
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
1
1
0
$0.6M
2020
0
0
0
-
2021
1
1
0
$0.7M
2022
2
2
0
$0.3M
2023
0
0
0
-
2024
0
0
0
-
Permit volume decreased 100% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
75.9%
Carpool
10.3%
Public Transit
0.7%
Walk
0.6%
Work from Home
11.4%
Other
1.1%
Based on 11,355 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Florida statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $225
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Florida at $225 (electricity about $145 , water and sewer about $55 ).
These are Florida statewide averages, not a meter reading for Hialeah Gardens. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Florida's BEA cost-of-living index is 103.4 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Hialeah Gardens is $1,526/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Florida statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 75.7 / 100 (High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Florida statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Hialeah Gardens sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Hialeah Gardens compares to similar-size Florida cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.