Photo: Oscar Flowers · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Hialeah Gardens earn less than those in 65% of U.S. towns
Hialeah Gardens grades B for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Poverty touches 13.5% of residents, next to 12.6% for Florida as a whole. Only 4% work in Hialeah Gardens itself; outside it, Miami draws the most (15%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Hialeah Gardens stands out on work
Hialeah Gardens’ Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Hialeah Gardens is better than 58% of U.S. towns, #268 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Hialeah Gardens’ grade up (ahead of 96% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down. It also does well on unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hialeah Gardens could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
Each way, about 31 minutes from Hialeah Gardens
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hialeah Gardens workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 10,319 commuters (the 10% who work from home are left out). Across Florida: 83% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
A workday in Hialeah Gardens: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 9,266 residents head out to work, 435 work right here, and 6,186 people come in from elsewhere.
About 20,000 people are in Hialeah Gardens on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.68 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The places Hialeah Gardens commutes to
Where Hialeah Gardens clocks in
15% of workers
12% of workers
8% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
What work there is in Hialeah Gardens: 6,621 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hialeah Gardens, 2013 → 2023: 5,780 → 6,621. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Hialeah Gardens’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Hialeah Gardens
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most trips from Hialeah Gardens start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hialeah Gardens is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns, #268 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.6% across Florida.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 11,509 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 86% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 5.4 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 85% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 5.4% of Hialeah Gardens households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Hialeah Gardens’ commuters take a bus or train.
1,008th of 1,712: where Hialeah Gardens ranks among U.S. towns of 16,000 to 31,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Lake Forest IL | 19,731 | $235K | 3.5% | 1.8% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Pinecrest FL | 18,635 | $206K | 4.3% | 3.0% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 70 | Lake Butler FL | 17,125 | $183K | 3.7% | 2.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 99 | Palm Valley FL | 19,796 | $117K | 4.2% | 1.2% | 13% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,006 | Bourne MA | 20,772 | $91K | 6.2% | 5.6% | 18% | B |
| 1,007 | Meadowbrook VA | 20,749 | $86K | 12.4% | 5.3% | 2% | B |
| 1,008 | Hialeah Gardens FL | 22,777 | $65K | 13.5% | 3.7% | 4% | B |
| 1,009 | Menasha WI | 18,385 | $65K | 12.0% | 3.2% | 7% | B |
| 1,010 | Neptune Township NJ | 28,273 | $101K | 10.4% | 8.2% | 10% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,712 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Hialeah Gardens, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Work next door: 17% of Hialeah Gardens’ workers
The biggest share goes to Hialeah (12%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hialeah Gardens workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hialeah Gardens | – | B | B+ | 31 min | $65,439 |
| Hialeah | 12% | B− | A | 29 min | $55,594 |
| Medley | 5% | C | B | 25 min | $40,735 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Hialeah Gardens’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Hialeah Gardens: questions
What is the median household income in Hialeah Gardens?
$65,439 (±$6,110) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hialeah Gardens?
13.5%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hialeah Gardens?
31 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hialeah Gardens work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Miami (15%, 12 mi), Hialeah (12%, 4 mi), Doral (8%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hialeah Gardens walkable?
Hialeah Gardens is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 13.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hialeah Gardens without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hialeah Gardens, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hialeah Gardens
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.