Biscayne GardensFL
A town of 35,472.
Is Biscayne Gardens a good place to live?
The best of Biscayne Gardens’ subject grades is an A for walkability; the weakest is a D− for cost of living. Biscayne Gardens’ January low is 61°F, above both the Florida town median (51°F) and the median of U.S. towns (22°F). The biggest park or preserve is Oak Grove Park, at 21 acres. Biscayne Gardens has no overall grade: it has no figures for safety and health, and an overall grade needs at least three of the four big subjects (cost of living, safety, schools and health).
What makes Biscayne Gardens stand out
Where Biscayne Gardens beats most towns.
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Jefferson Biscayne Gardens K-8 Academy | PK–8 | 787 |
| Linda Lentin K-8 Center | PK–8 | 594 |
| Oak Grove Elementary School | PK–5 | 543 |
98% of working residents leave Biscayne Gardens for work
Where Biscayne Gardens’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Biscayne Gardens grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Florida), ordered by how far Biscayne Gardens is from typical.
Biscayne Gardens has no overall grade: it has no figures for safety and health, and an overall grade needs at least three of the four big subjects (cost of living, safety, schools and health).
How TownRatings grades towns →
Hard Rock Stadium and 71 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Biscayne Gardens. Close and well known come first.
Big draw4 mi Stadium & arenaHard Rock Stadium
Big draw9 mi Stadium & arenaNu Stadium
Big draw9 mi Stadium & arenaKaseya Center
9 mi Stadium & arenaLoanDepot Park
21 mi National ParkEverglades National Park778K visitors a year
5 mi Park & preserveHaulover ParkPhoto credits
Hard Rock Stadium: elisfkc2, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Nu Stadium: Cuban Boy, CC0 · Kaseya Center: jjron, GFDL 1.2 · LoanDepot Park: Roberto Coquis, CC BY 2.0 · Everglades National Park: Everglades NPS from Homestead, Florida, United States, Public domain · Haulover Park: Elmschrat, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Moving to Biscayne Gardens: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Biscayne Gardens, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 17, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Biscayne Gardens.
With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Biscayne Gardens’ workers commute out
Most working residents leave Biscayne Gardens for work: only 2% work in town. 23% of Biscayne Gardens residents live below the poverty line, against 11% in Florida’s towns and 9.6% across U.S. towns. Jobs based in Biscayne Gardens fell to 4,178 in 2023, 1,107 fewer than in 2013.
| Biscayne Gardens | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 23% | 11% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $55,000 | $73,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 30 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.8% | 5% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Public schools in Biscayne Gardens beat 72% of Florida districts
Its public schools are run by the Miami-Dade school district. Two of its 10 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Jefferson Biscayne Gardens K-8 AcademyLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–8 | Grades PK–8 | 787 | C− |
| Keystone National High School PrivateLargest high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 874 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within FL on state tests and graduation
Biscayne Gardens has mild winters and hot summers
Biscayne Gardens has warm winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. The July high in Biscayne Gardens is 90°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
High risk in Biscayne Gardens, with hurricanes at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 61% of U.S. communities. Since 1980, 386 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Biscayne Gardens.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
0.8% of Biscayne Gardens is conserved land
0.5 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves. Biscayne Gardens’ trail density is 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Biscayne Gardens | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 0.8% | 3% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Biscayne Gardens Park | 0.4 mi | 4 |
| 2. Oak Grove Park | 0.1 mi | 21 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Biscayne Gardens
Colleges nearby
30 within 15 miles of the center of Biscayne Gardens
About 7 of every 100 Biscayne Gardens residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Florida.
Biscayne Gardens’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Biscayne Gardens.
| Town | FL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biscayne Gardens | — | — | D− | — | B+ | — |
| North Miami | #438 | C− | D | — | B+ | C− |
| North Miami Beach | #490 | C− | D | D | B+ | C+ |
| Opa-locka | #440 | C− | C− | — | B+ | D |
| Miami Gardens | #507 | D | D | C | B+ | C− |
Biscayne Gardens, North Miami and Opa-locka report no FBI crime data of their own. Biscayne Gardens isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Biscayne Gardens with a neighbor →
Questions about Biscayne Gardens
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Biscayne Gardens, FL a good place to live?
Biscayne Gardens has no overall grade: it has no figures for safety and health, and an overall grade needs at least three of the four big subjects (cost of living, safety, schools and health).
Is Biscayne Gardens, FL expensive?
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D−.