Best PlacesHialeah, FL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Hialeah, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Distance to the water drives a lot of the difference between one part and the next. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Hialeah ranks 426th of 445 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. The coast is about 16 minutes away. Its strengths are few empty homes and state infrastructure. The cost shows up in car insurance costs, the cost of living against local pay, and summer heat.
The best neighborhoods in Hialeah
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
The best areas in Hialeah
The parts of Hialeah, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first. Each note says how that part differs from the rest of the city.
Palm Springs North
More households have young kids, incomes run higher, and heat risk is lower.
Southeastern Hialeah
Streets are more walkable, though crime runs higher.
Wynken Blynken anchor Nod
Local pay stretches less far and fewer adults hold degrees.
Scores across Hialeah run from about the 3rd to the 58th percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
Hialeah's strengths and weaknesses
Hialeah ranks near the bottom because several of the basics fall short at once. Few empty homes is the standout, in the top 2% of cities. State infrastructure and low taxes follow.
The weak spots are broad rather than narrow: car insurance costs, the cost of living against local pay, and summer heat all drag on the score. Those are area averages, and the map below shows which parts run well above them.
Where Hialeah ranks high
- Low vacancyBetter than 98% of cities
- State infrastructureBetter than 95% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 95% of cities
- WalkabilityBetter than 92% of cities
- Big-city accessBetter than 83% of cities
Where Hialeah ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of cities
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 3% of cities
- Heat safetyBetter than only 6% of cities
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 8% of cities
- Household income$64,990 median, better than only 9% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Hialeah
A household needs to earn about $106,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Hialeah home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $64,990, so buying stretches a typical household.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Hialeah's effective rate of 0.67%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 8 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Hialeah
Hialeah runs older than the country, and households here run larger than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Hialeah.
Who works in Hialeah, and how
Work in Hialeah centers on health care & social and construction. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 81%
- Work from home 14%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Hialeah
Hialeah has more restaurants and bars per resident than 67% of cities and more parkland per resident than 78% of cities. The coast is about 16 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Hialeah and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Hialeah, month by month
Hialeah sees roughly 94 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 92 degrees. January highs sit near 79, with lows near 59. The comfortable stretch runs November through March.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 79° | 68° | 59° |
| April | 87° | 77° | 69° |
| July | 92° | 84° | 77° |
| October | 88° | 80° | 73° |
Flying in and out of Hialeah
Miami International sits about 5 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 26.2 million passengers in 2025, with 233 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Hialeah
Schools across Hialeah average a B, better than 75% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Springview Elementary SchoolA · 72% proficient
- Mater Gardens AcademyA · 68% proficient
- Bob Graham Education CenterA− · 59% proficient
Top middle schools
- Mater Academy Lakes Middle SchoolA · 60% proficient
- Miami Lakes Middle SchoolA · 59% proficient
- Hialeah Gardens Middle SchoolA− · 56% proficient
Top high schools
- Mater Academy Lakes High SchoolB · 48% proficient
- Hialeah Gardens Senior High SchoolC+ · 38% proficient
- Hialeah-miami Lakes Senior HighC+ · 35% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Hialeah school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Hialeah measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Hialeah against the other 444 cities.
Who Hialeah suits
Remote workers
Internet is fast and widely advertised and 14% already work from home.
Retirees
Set weather, quiet, and health care weights on the map to test the fit.
Common questions about living in Hialeah
Is Hialeah a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Hialeah ranks 426th of 445 cities. It scores highest on few empty homes, state infrastructure, and low taxes, and lowest on car insurance costs and the cost of living against local pay. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Hialeah expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $413,349. The overall cost of living runs about 8% above the national average. Set against a $64,990 median income, cost of living beats 3% of cities.
Is Hialeah safe?
Hialeah is safer than 12% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $369 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Hialeah?
July highs average about 92 degrees, and January highs near 79 with lows near 59. That works out to about 94 pleasant days a year, more than 44% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Hialeah?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Palm Springs North, Southeastern Hialeah, and Wynken Blynken anchor Nod. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Hialeah good for families?
Schools beat 75% of cities, crime safety beats 12%, and childcare runs $844 a month.
Is Hialeah good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 3% of cities, and the fastest advertised internet here beats 65% of cities. About 14% of workers already work from home.
Compare Hialeah with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Hialeah. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Hialeah represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
Hialeah detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Hialeah: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Hialeah: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Hialeah: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Hialeah: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Hialeah detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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