Three LakesFL
A town of 16,888.
Is Three Lakes a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Three Lakes grades B overall, 103rd among Florida's 634 graded towns. The median household earns $102K and it is healthier than 76% of U.S. towns. What holds it back is price: homes are expensive, about $481K for a typical one and 6.3 times the Miami metro’s $77K median household income. Three Lakes’ January low is 58°F, against 51°F in Florida’s towns and 22°F across U.S. towns. Three Lakes has 2 places on the National Register. Three Lakes is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns.
What makes Three Lakes stand out
Where Three Lakes beats most towns.
Jobs vs. working residents
Every workday, about 15,037 people come to Three Lakes for work
Where Three Lakes’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Three Lakes grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Florida), ordered by how far Three Lakes is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Hard Rock Stadium and 64 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Three Lakes. Close and well known come first.
Big draw24 mi Stadium & arenaHard Rock Stadium
Big draw15 mi Stadium & arenaNu Stadium
6 mi National ParkEverglades National Park778K visitors a year
Big draw16 mi Stadium & arenaKaseya Center
15 mi Stadium & arenaLoanDepot Park
6 mi National ParkBiscayne National Park487K visitors a yearPhoto credits
Hard Rock Stadium: elisfkc2, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Nu Stadium: Cuban Boy, CC0 · Everglades National Park: Everglades NPS from Homestead, Florida, United States, Public domain · Kaseya Center: jjron, GFDL 1.2 · LoanDepot Park: Roberto Coquis, CC BY 2.0 · Biscayne National Park: National Park Service, Public domain
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Moving to Three Lakes: who provides what
Three Lakes is unincorporated, so Miami-Dade County and regional agencies provide most services.
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 Three Lakes.
Three Lakes draws workers from The Hammocks and beyond and has more 90° days than nearly all U.S. towns, but it has homes that cost more against local pay than most of Florida.
Most working residents commute out of Three Lakes
15,520 jobs are based in Three Lakes, 2.1 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. Jobs based here grew from 10,667 in 2013 to 15,520.
Three Lakes’ typical journey to work comes in at 33 minutes. Just 7% of the town’s working residents have a job in town. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs locally rose by 4,853, to 15,520. Half the trips to work are shorter than 12 miles.
| Three Lakes | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 33 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $102,000 | $73,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 14% | 14% | 11% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
On state tests, Three Lakes’ schools beat 72% of Florida districts
Two of its 4 schools are below, each with the reason it’s listed. Its public schools are run by the Miami-Dade school district. The largest public high school is Bridgeprep Academy of Village Green Middle High School, with 696 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kids Paradise Learning Center PrivateLargest elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 126 | – |
| Bridgeprep Academy of Village GreenLargest public high schoolGrades K–10 | Grades K–10 | 856 | B− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within FL on state tests and graduation
Three Lakes stands out in Florida and nationally: a smaller share of its adults have high blood pressure
Its widest gap with Florida is COPD: 3.8% of its 12,820 adults have COPD, against 7.2% statewide.
Three Lakes: 27% of adults get no exercise outside work. CDC measures, 31 in all: Three Lakes beats Florida on 12 and trails on 6.
| Three Lakes | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 14% | 8.1% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 18% | 23% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 37% | 35% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 32% | 35% |
| What stands out | Three Lakes | FL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults with COPD | 3.8% | 7.2% |
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 5.3% | 9.1% |
| More uninsured adults | 21.9% | 15.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Younger than Florida overall
The share of residents in Three Lakes who are 65 or older: 11%. Four-year graduates: 38% of adults 25 and older here, 34% across Florida. The age of the median resident for Three Lakes comes to 35.8 years.
| Three Lakes | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aged 65 or older | 11% | 20% | 18% |
| Median age | 35.8 years | 42.5 years | 40.5 years |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 38% | 31% | 29% |
| Under 18 | 23% | 20% | 22% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±2.1 points. Across Florida, 50.9% of residents are women. Median age: women 36.2, men 35.5.
| Three Lakes | FL | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 13.4% | 10.3% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 10% | 9.2% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 9.1% | 8.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 14.4% | 12.7% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 15.6% | 12.7% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 14.2% | 12.3% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 12.5% | 13.4% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 7.1% | 11.7% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 3.6% | 9.6% | 7% |
| No diploma | 8.9% | 10.1% | 10.4% |
| High school | 20.7% | 27.2% | 26% |
| Some college | 14.9% | 18.5% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 17.2% | 10.1% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 28.8% | 21.3% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 9.5% | 12.9% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
The biggest natural risk in Three Lakes is inland flooding, at a high overall level
Three Lakes’ natural-hazard score from FEMA is 72 of 100. 45% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by hurricanes at 42%. One declared disaster, in 2017, has brought federal aid to Three Lakes households.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Three Lakes has mild winters and hot summers
The Perrine 4w weather station, 5 miles away, records that about 81 days a year reach 90°, more than in 96% of U.S. towns. January nights average 57.8°, milder than in 99% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 90.8°.
It almost never snows. The July high locally is 91°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Open space protected for good: 7.2% of Three Lakes
The biggest park or preserve is Nixon Smiley Pineland Preserve, at 124 acres. Three Lakes has 2 parks and preserves, 135 acres in all.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Nixon Smiley Pineland Preserve | — | 124 |
| 2. Deerwood Park | — | 11 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
A home in Three Lakes sells for about $540K at the median
At 6.3 years of the Miami metro’s $77K median household income, the typical home costs more against local pay than in 76% of Florida towns; that ratio is one input to its D− for cost of living. 75.2% of renter households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, against 60.1% across Florida.
For Three Lakes, the median rent is $2,361 a month. A home in Three Lakes typically sold within 151 days of listing. 67% of households live in a home they own locally.
| Three Lakes | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $2,361 a month | $1,647 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 67% | 72% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Three Lakes
Colleges nearby
11 within 15 miles of the center of Three Lakes
About 9 of every 100 Three Lakes residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Florida.
About Three Lakes
Census-designated place in Florida, United States
Three Lakes is a census-designated place (CDP) and planned community in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida. The population was 16,540 at the 2020 census, up from 15,047 in 2010.
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- Area
- 3.9 sq mi
- Elevation
- 3 ft
- Area code
- 305
Three Lakes’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Three Lakes.
| Town | FL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Three Lakes | #103 | B | D− | — | B+ | A− |
| The Crossings | #141 | B− | D− | — | B+ | B+ |
| Richmond Heights | #373 | C | D | — | B+ | C |
| Kendall | #106 | B | D− | — | B+ | B+ |
| Country Walk | #99 | B | D− | — | B+ | A− |
Three Lakes, The Crossings, Richmond Heights, Kendall and Country Walk report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Three Lakes with a neighbor →
Questions about Three Lakes
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Three Lakes, FL a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Three Lakes grades B overall, better than 57% of U.S. towns and #103 of 634 in Florida. It grades A− for health and B+ for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D−.
Is Three Lakes, FL expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $481,000, 28% above the Florida typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D−.