Hialeah, FL population, income and ZIP codes

Hialeah city is a mid-size city in Florida, with 221,901 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #6 of 955 ranked by population — larger than 99% of them. The median age here is 45.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.

Households in Hialeah city earn a median of $53,079 a year, 32.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 23% below the $68,617 median for the 775 Florida cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 17.5% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Hialeah city is valued at $359,200, 18.4% above the national figure and 18% above the $305,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,558 a month, 10.8% above the national figure, or roughly $18,696 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 35.2% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 6.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is out of reach on local earnings alone and the ownership market leans on outside income, equity or dual high earners. 47.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Home values sit at 6.8× median household income, far past the 3.9× national mark, so ownership costs here are set by something other than local wages — second homes, retirees with equity, or commuters earning elsewhere.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.