Photo: Phillip Pessar · CC BY 2.0Households in Hialeah have lower incomes than those in 81% of U.S. towns
For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 7.5 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 31.0 in Miami. The poverty rate is 17.0%, next to 12.6% for Florida as a whole. Jobs and income earn Hialeah B−; getting around on foot earns it A.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Hialeah at work: what stands out
How Hialeah earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Hialeah is better than 46% of U.S. towns, #370 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Hialeah’s grade up (ahead of 96% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($55,594, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hialeah could be anywhere from C+ to B−.
Half of Hialeah commutes less than 7 miles
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.
In and out of Hialeah on a workday
On a workday 75,065 residents head out to work, 13,668 work right here, and 45,733 people come in from elsewhere.
About 202,000 people are in Hialeah on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.67 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.
15% of working residents work in Miami
Where Hialeah clocks in
15% of workers
7% 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.
The kinds of work in Hialeah
59,401 jobs are based in Hialeah.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hialeah, 2013 → 2023: 50,842 → 59,401. 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’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Hialeah takes about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hialeah workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 97,363 commuters (the 13% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Hialeah
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hialeah is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns, #162 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 3.0% 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 112,425 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 54% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 7.5 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 90% 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). 9.8% of Hialeah households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Hialeah’s commuters take a bus or train.
These are town averages; neighborhoods differ.
For jobs and income, Hialeah is 64th of 105 U.S. towns of 162,000 to 312,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Hempstead NY | 238,982 | $158K | 4.5% | 4.1% | 20% | A |
| 2 | Oyster Bay NY | 301,115 | $160K | 3.9% | 4.6% | 19% | A |
| 3 | Frisco TX | 236,955 | $150K | 3.6% | 4.6% | 14% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Pembroke Pines FL | 176,714 | $85K | 10.0% | 4.1% | 10% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Cape Coral FL | 236,264 | $78K | 10.7% | 3.8% | 23% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Fort Lauderdale FL | 188,677 | $83K | 15.0% | 5.3% | 26% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 62 | Spring Valley NV | 219,187 | $75K | 12.2% | 7.6% | 13% | B− |
| 63 | Glendale AZ | 260,572 | $74K | 15.1% | 5.6% | 11% | B− |
| 64 | Hialeah FL | 230,968 | $56K | 17.0% | 4.1% | 15% | B− |
| 65 | Grand Rapids MI | 201,183 | $69K | 16.9% | 5.2% | 34% | B− |
| 66 | Little Rock AR | 206,427 | $63K | 17.5% | 4.1% | 68% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 105 | Shreveport LA | 175,902 | $49K | 23.5% | 9.0% | 61% | C− |
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, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Hialeah and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Miami Lakes (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hialeah workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hialeah | – | B− | A | 29 min | $55,594 |
| Miami Lakes | 3% | A | A− | 33 min | $101,557 |
| Hialeah Gardens | under 2% | B | B+ | 31 min | $65,439 |
| Miami Springs | under 2% | A | A | 28 min | $87,099 |
| Brownsville | under 2% | C− | A+ | 31 min | $40,795 |
| Westview | under 2% | B− | A | 34 min | $57,563 |
| West Little River | under 2% | C | A+ | 31 min | $56,436 |
| Opa-locka | under 2% | C | A+ | 32 min | $37,532 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Hialeah’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: questions
What is the median household income in Hialeah?
$55,594 (±$1,624) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hialeah?
17.0%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hialeah?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hialeah work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Miami (15%, 9 mi), Doral (7%, 5 mi), Medley (4%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hialeah walkable?
Hialeah is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 14.5 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hialeah without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. 54% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hialeah, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hialeah
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.