Miami-Dade Neighborhoods: homes for sale and guides for 28 places The best neighborhoods in Miami, one honest guide each.
Updated September 2026
Every part of Miami-Dade has a different answer to the same questions: what you get for the money, how you get to work, and what the flood map says. Start with the areas we know block by block.
Homes for sale where we work most
Brickell Condos for Sale
Brickell is Miami's high-rise financial district on the south bank of the Miami River, where bank towers, condo towers and Brickell City Centre sit within walking distance of Metrorail and Metromover stations.
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Homes for Sale in Coconut Grove, Miami FL
Coconut Grove is Miami's oldest settlement, named in 1873, its own city in 1919 and annexed by Miami in 1925: a bayfront village of sailing history, banyan canopy and a conservation district written to keep it that way.
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Coral Gables Homes for Sale
Coral Gables is the planned Mediterranean city George Merrick drew on paper in 1921 and incorporated on April 29, 1925: coral-rock entrances, canopied boulevards, the Biltmore, the University of Miami, and a design board that still decides what gets built.
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Houses for Sale in Cutler Bay
Cutler Bay is Miami-Dade's youngest municipality, a 10-square-mile town on Biscayne Bay between SW 184th and SW 232nd Streets that was rebuilt almost from scratch after Hurricane Andrew came ashore near Cutler Ridge in 1992.
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Homes for Sale in Doral, FL
Doral is a young, master-planned city on Miami-Dade's western edge, built around golf courses, corporate campuses and the warehouses that serve Miami International Airport.
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Houses for Sale in Hialeah
Hialeah is Miami-Dade's second-largest city and Florida's sixth, a 1920s aviation town that grew into a dense grid of concrete-block homes, factories and a free bus system northwest of the airport.
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Homes for Sale in Homestead, FL
Homestead is the second-oldest city in Miami-Dade, incorporated in 1913 at the end of Flagler's railroad, flattened by Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and rebuilt into a city of 80,000 between Biscayne National Park and the Everglades.
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Kendall, Miami Homes for Sale
Kendall is the largest unincorporated suburb in southwest Miami-Dade County: about 16 square miles of houses, townhomes and condos between US 1 and Florida's Turnpike, anchored by Dadeland and the southern end of Metrorail.
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Miami Gardens Homes for Sale
Miami Gardens is a 19-square-mile city of single-family streets in north-central Miami-Dade, incorporated in 2003 and best known as the home of Hard Rock Stadium.
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Homes for Sale in Miami Lakes, FL
Miami Lakes is a 3,000-acre planned town north of Hialeah, laid out in 1962 on the Graham dairy farm around 23 lakes and curving, tree-lined streets, and incorporated in December 2000.
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Houses for Sale in Pinecrest, Miami FL
Pinecrest is a 7.5-square-mile village of acre lots, canopy streets and mid-century ranch houses steadily giving way to larger new ones, eleven miles southwest of downtown Miami with US 1 as its western edge.
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Homes for Sale in Westchester, Miami FL
Westchester is the unincorporated grid of 1950s and 1960s houses between the Palmetto Expressway and SW 117th Avenue, with Tropical Park at one corner and Florida International University at the other.
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Aventura Homes and Condos for Sale
Aventura is a planned city of high-rise condominiums and golf-course enclaves on Dumfoundling Bay and the Intracoastal, incorporated in 1995 and built around Aventura Mall.
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Coral Way Homes for Sale
Coral Way is the City of Miami district that grew along George Merrick's 1922 boulevard between Brickell Avenue and SW 37th Avenue, under the 1,200 banyans planted in 1929, taking in Shenandoah, Silver Bluff, Coral Gate and The Roads.
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Fontainebleau Homes for Sale
Fontainebleau is a 1970s planned community in unincorporated west Miami-Dade, built as villages of condos, townhomes and small houses around two golf courses that have since been developed, between Doral, Sweetwater and Westchester.
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Hialeah Gardens Homes for Sale
Hialeah Gardens is a compact 3.67-square-mile city wedged between Hialeah, Okeechobee Road and Florida's Turnpike, where single-family blocks, newer townhouse clusters and a large warehouse district share one municipality.
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Key Biscayne Homes for Sale
Key Biscayne is a barrier island village of 1.25 land square miles, reached only by the Rickenbacker Causeway, with a county park at one end, a state park at the other, and houses and condo towers in between.
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Little Havana Homes for Sale
Little Havana is the low-rise neighborhood that runs west from the Miami River along Calle Ocho, with 1920s bungalows in Shenandoah, small apartment buildings toward downtown, and the Tower Theater and Domino Park at its center.
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Miami Shores Homes for Sale
Miami Shores is a 2.5-square-mile village on Biscayne Bay, incorporated in 1932 and laid out in the 1920s as "America's Mediterranean," with its own golf course, library, aquatic center and charter school.
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Miami Springs Homes for Sale
Miami Springs is a 2.98-square-mile city on the north side of Miami International Airport, laid out by aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss in the 1920s around a golf course and a Pueblo Revival hotel.
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Miramar Homes and Condos for Sale
Miramar runs east to west along the Broward side of the Miami-Dade county line, a city of 134,721 people that grew from a 2.9-square-mile subdivision in 1955 into roughly 31 square miles of neighborhoods, lakes and a purpose-built Town Center.
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North Miami Homes for Sale
North Miami is a 10-square-mile city on Biscayne Bay, incorporated in 1926 and celebrating its centennial in 2026, that spans 1950s canal-front streets like Keystone Point, the FIU Biscayne Bay Campus, Oleta River State Park and the 184-acre SoLé Mia development.
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North Miami Beach Condos and Homes for Sale
North Miami Beach is a 5.4-square-mile mainland city that began as Fulford in the 1920s, took its current name in 1931, and today has no beach at all, only canals, the Oleta River and a lot of mid-century houses.
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Homes for Sale in Palmetto Bay, FL
Palmetto Bay is the self-styled Village of Parks, an 8.4-square-mile municipality on Biscayne Bay between Pinecrest and Cutler Bay, incorporated in 2002 and built around Old Cutler Road, the Deering Estate and a long bay shoreline.
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Houses for Sale in Pembroke Pines
Pembroke Pines is a 34.76-square-mile Broward County city of 171,178 people, strung along Pines Boulevard from the older east side to the Everglades edge west of I-75, with a city hall district, a 450-acre wetland preserve and its own charter schools.
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Houses for Sale in South Miami
South Miami is a 2.31-square-mile city built around the crossing of Sunset Drive and US-1: a town in 1926, a city on June 24, 1927, with its own Metrorail station, a 467-bed hospital and a downtown that still calls itself the City of Pleasant Living.
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Sunny Isles Beach Condos for Sale
Sunny Isles Beach is a 1.78-square-mile barrier-island city between the Atlantic and the Intracoastal, where a mid-century motel row became one of the tallest condominium corridors in Florida.
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Sweetwater Homes for Sale
Sweetwater is a small incorporated city on SW 8th Street at the western edge of urban Miami-Dade, with FIU across the street, Dolphin Mall inside its limits and its own city hall, police and parks since 1941.
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Talk to ClearPathWhich Miami neighborhood is right for you?
Start from the commute you will actually make, then the housing type, then the price band, then the flood map — in that order. Most people do it backwards and fall in love with a house before they know the insurance bill. Every guide below carries the same six sections so you can compare two places line by line.
“SFHA are defined as the area that will be inundated by the flood event having a 1-percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year.”
Neighborhoods at a glance
| Place | Median price | Housing | Flood note | To Downtown |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brickell | $620,000 | Almost entirely condominiums, from 1997's Santa Maria to 2019's Brickell Flatiron and 2025 | Brickell borders Biscayne Bay and the Miami River, so the parcels closest to the water are | — |
| Coconut Grove | $1,870,000 | Detached houses on irregular lots fill the North, Center and South Grove, from early wood | The Grove faces Biscayne Bay, so the bayfront along South Bayshore Drive, Dinner Key and G | 6.8 mi |
| Coral Gables | $1,400,000 | Detached houses dominate, from 1920s Mediterranean Revival originals and Merrick's themed | The zone depends on the block. | 6.9 mi |
| Cutler Bay | $595,000 | One-story concrete-block houses in named subdivisions platted from 1948 to the 1980s (Cutl | Cutler Bay is coastal, bounded by Biscayne Bay, and the town lists tidal flooding and stor | 18 mi |
| Doral | $617,000 | Post-1980 gated lake communities, townhouses and, since 2016, mid-rise condos around Downt | Doral is inland but low and flat, and FEMA maps most of the city in zones AE, AH or X. | 15.5 mi |
| Hialeah | $497,000 | Mostly single-story concrete-block ranches from the 1950s to 1970s on grid lots, plus 1970 | Hialeah is inland along the Miami Canal, and FEMA maps most of it in zones AE, AH or X, wi | 12.8 mi |
| Homestead | $416,000 | A pre-Andrew historic core around Krome Avenue and the railroad, surrounded by master-plan | Homestead lies between Biscayne Bay and the Everglades, and the city names surface water, | 26 mi |
| Kendall | $590,000 | Detached concrete-block houses from the 1960s near US 1 through 1990s gated communities ne | Kendall is inland, several miles from Biscayne Bay, but it is laced with lakes and canals, | 11 mi |
| Miami Gardens | $500,000 | Mostly one-story concrete-block houses from the 1950s to 1970s on standard lots in Carol C | Miami Gardens is inland, so there is no coastal VE zone. | 15 mi |
| Miami Lakes | $680,000 | Master-planned single-family sections from the 1960s to 1990s on curving, lake-lined stree | Miami Lakes is inland, and the county maps this side of Miami-Dade in FEMA zones AE, AH an | 15.9 mi |
| Pinecrest | $2,400,000 | Mostly detached houses on one-acre lots platted in the 1950s and 1960s, with mid-century r | Pinecrest is inland on the coastal ridge. | 11 mi |
| Westchester | $690,000 | Single-story concrete-block houses from the 1950s and 1960s on rectangular lots, many enla | Westchester is inland and flat, about ten miles from the coast, so most parcels map to FEM | 9.4 mi |
| Aventura | $450,000 | Almost entirely condominiums, from 1970s and 1980s towers around Country Club Drive and Wi | Aventura sits on filled land between Dumfoundling Bay, the Intracoastal and Maule Lake. | about 17 by Brightline train |
| Coral Way | $830,000 | Mission Revival houses and 1920s bungalows, 1930s Art Deco and modest postwar homes on sma | Most of Coral Way is inland, so Zone X, where flood insurance is optional but recommended, | 2.8 mi |
| Fontainebleau | $320,000 | Condo and apartment villages from the early 1970s onward in the eastern half, with Village | Fontainebleau is inland, but the lakes left from the golf-course plan and the canals aroun | 10 mi |
| Hialeah Gardens | $460,000 | Townhouses and condos from the 2000s in the south and central districts, single-family and | Hialeah Gardens is inland, bounded by the Miami Canal and Okeechobee Road, and the county | 15.6 mi |
| Key Biscayne | $1,500,000 | Single-family houses on 1950s Mackle lots, many rebuilt larger, plus bayfront estates on H | Key Biscayne is a low barrier island, so expect many parcels to sit in FEMA's high-risk AE | 7 mi |
| Little Havana | $537,000 | Low-rise: 1920s and 1930s bungalows and Mediterranean Revival houses on 7,500-square-foot | Little Havana's eastern edge is the Miami River, and the blocks nearest the river and Jose | 2 mi |
| Miami Shores | $1,200,000 | Detached houses only: 1920s Mediterranean Revival originals from the Shoreland plan, 25 of | Miami Shores fronts Biscayne Bay and is crossed by the Biscayne Canal, so its FEMA maps ca | 6.6 mi |
| Miami Springs | $794,000 | Almost entirely single-family: 1920s Pueblo Revival originals near the Circle and Curtiss | Miami Springs is an inland city, but the Miami Canal forms its northern and eastern bounda | 10 mi |
| Miramar | $550,000 | East of University Drive: 1950s–1960s one-story concrete-block ranch houses on the origina | Miramar is inland, but its western half was drained wetland and its lakes are excavated fi | 22 mi |
| North Miami | $487,000 | Mostly 1950s one-story houses on inland streets, canal-front homes with docks in Keystone | North Miami fronts Biscayne Bay and is threaded by Arch Creek and the canals of Keystone P | 9.8 mi |
| North Miami Beach | $430,000 | One-story concrete-block houses from the 1950s and 1960s in Sunray, Highland Village, Skyl | Mostly inland with a waterfront peninsula. | 16 mi |
| Palmetto Bay | $1,300,000 | Almost entirely detached houses on suburban lots, larger toward Old Cutler Road and the ba | Palmetto Bay is coastal. | 15 mi |
| Pembroke Pines | $490,000 | 1960s–1970s one-story concrete-block houses near Pembroke Road and University Drive; 1980s | Pembroke Pines is inland, but its western third was drained wetland beside the Everglades | 23 mi |
| South Miami | $902,000 | Detached houses on modest lots from the 1928 Cambridge Lawns Historic District through 194 | South Miami is an inland city with no bay frontage, so most streets fall in Zone X, where | 8.9 mi |
| Sunny Isles Beach | $680,000 | Condominiums only, in three generations along Collins Avenue: 1960s and 1970s mid-rises, t | A barrier island between the Atlantic and the Intracoastal. | 17 mi |
| Sweetwater | $425,000 | Small detached houses on small lots, duplexes and two- and three-story apartment buildings | Sweetwater is inland and low-lying, with canals along its edges, so FEMA maps show shallow | 12 mi |
Median prices from each guide's sourced snapshot where one exists; flood and housing notes are the first line of each guide.
Questions about Miami neighborhoods
What are the best neighborhoods in Miami for families?
It depends on the commute and the school you want. Pinecrest, Palmetto Bay and Miami Lakes trade a longer drive for larger lots and top-rated public schools; Coral Gables and Miami Shores keep you closer to downtown with historic housing; Doral and Kendall offer newer, gated construction at a lower entry price. Each guide lists the schools serving that area.
What are the safest neighborhoods in Miami?
Crime statistics are published by each police department, not by us, and they change block by block. Pull the most recent report for the city or district you are considering (Coral Gables, Pinecrest, Miami Springs, Doral and Miami Shores publish their own), then walk the street at night before you offer.
What are the most affordable neighborhoods in Miami?
By median sale price in our snapshots, Homestead, Hialeah, Miami Gardens and North Miami sit at the low end for houses; Fontainebleau, Westchester and Sweetwater for condos and townhomes. Affordable also means insurable — check the flood zone before the price.
What is the best neighborhood in Miami for first-time buyers?
One where the numbers close: an FHA-eligible price, a flood zone that does not add a second insurance premium, and an association without a pending special assessment. Homestead, Cutler Bay, Hialeah Gardens and Miami Gardens meet all three more often than the coastal areas do.
Which Miami neighborhoods flood?
Every neighborhood has a FEMA flood zone map, and most have both X and AE zones a few blocks apart. Coastal and low-lying areas — Key Biscayne, Sunny Isles Beach, parts of Miami Shores, Cutler Bay and Homestead — carry more AE and VE zones. Check any address in one minute with our flood zone lookup.
Which Miami neighborhood is right for me?
Start from the commute you will actually do, then the housing type (house, condo, townhome), then the price band, then the flood map. Our neighborhood explorer compares them side by side; a five-minute call narrows it to two or three.
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