Houses for Sale in Hialeah & Neighborhood Guide

Aviator Glenn Curtiss and cattleman James H. Bright platted Hialeah in 1921, and the city incorporated on September 10, 1925 with about 1,500 residents. The name comes from a Muskogee-Seminole phrase for upland prairie. Hialeah Park opened for thoroughbreds on January 25, 1925, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and its infield flamingo colony earned an Audubon sanctuary designation. Racing ended in 2016, but the casino, open since August 2013, keeps the grounds at 2200 East 4th Avenue in use.

Growth was steep: 2,600 residents in 1930, 66,972 in 1960 and 226,419 in 2000; the 2020 census counted 223,109. The city covers 22.81 square miles, with the Miami Canal and Okeechobee Road along the southwest, Miami Lakes to the north, Opa-locka to the northeast and Miami Springs to the south, and Hialeah Gardens tucked into its western side. Streets are numbered east and west from Palm Avenue, which makes any address easy to place once you learn the grid.

Most homes date from the building boom that ran from the 1950s through the 1970s: single-story concrete-block-and-stucco ranches on grid lots, many with carports enclosed later and additions that may or may not have been permitted. The Palm Springs section on the northwest side is one of the oldest developed areas, and the flat-roofed solid-concrete style that builders marketed in the 1950s as bomb-proof still shows up around Suntan Village, some with the original stairs to a rooftop deck.

Townhouse and condo developments from the 1970s to the 1990s cluster near West 49th Street, the Palmetto and the northern edge toward Miami Lakes, and duplexes and small multifamily buildings are common on the older east side. Buildings three stories and taller fall under the county recertification program. Redfin put the median sale price at $499,750 in July 2026, up 6.3 percent year over year, with about 273 sales that month, which makes Hialeah one of the most liquid markets in the county.

Hialeah has more rail than any other suburb on this side of the county. Metrorail stops at Okeechobee, Hialeah (Palm Avenue at East 21st Street, beside the racetrack) and the Tri-Rail/Metrorail Transfer station, and Tri-Rail also stops at Hialeah Market. Interstate 75, the Palmetto Expressway (SR 826) and Okeechobee Road (US 27) carry the car traffic; the Miami Canal runs parallel to Okeechobee along the city's southwest boundary.

The city runs its own Hialeah Transit System with two free routes, Flamingo and Marlin, weekdays from 6 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., plus Freebee, a free on-demand electric shuttle. By road the city center is about 7 miles from Miami International Airport and about 13 miles from Downtown Miami.

West 49th Street is the retail spine. Westland Mall at 1675 West 49th Street opened in summer 1969 with Macy's and JCPenney and holds more than 100 stores, and the Palm Springs Mile strip runs east from it. Milander Park is the civic center, with a municipal auditorium and the 10,000-seat Ted Hendricks Stadium, named for Henry Milander, mayor from 1947 to 1975. The city counts more than 14 public parks, five pools and aquatic centers and three tennis centers, among them Bucky Dent Water Park and Goodlet Park.

Amelia Earhart Park, a 515-acre county park just north of the city, has 8 miles of bike trails, two lakes, a disc golf course, a five-acre dog park and the Bill Graham Farm Village. Hospitals include Palmetto General at 2001 West 68th Street and Larkin Community Hospital's Palm Springs campus at 1475 West 49th Street. Hialeah runs its own library system, founded in 1924, with the John F. Kennedy Library as the main branch, and since 2022 the Leah Arts District has grown around the Factory Town venue.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools operates several high schools inside the city. Hialeah High at 251 East 47th Street opened in September 1954. Hialeah-Miami Lakes High at 7977 West 12th Avenue opened in 1971 and offers Legal Studies, SpaceHUB aerospace and Digital Media magnets. Miami Lakes Educational Center at 5780 NW 158th Street pairs a high school with adult vocational training across 26 career strands.

The standout magnet is José Martí MAST 6-12 Academy at 5701 West 24th Avenue, a math-and-science school with about 1,043 students on the district's latest count. Mater Academy's charter middle and high school sits just across the line in Hialeah Gardens. School assignments follow the address, so confirm the zoned schools with the district before you buy rather than relying on a listing remark.

Check the flood zone first. Zones AE, AH and X are the most common in Hialeah, and one flood-data service maps much of the city in AE. Any AE or AH home with a federally backed loan needs flood insurance, so ask for an elevation certificate and recent premium quotes, and look up the address on the county map or our flood tool.

On 1950s-to-1970s houses, the inspection list is roof age, electrical panel, drain lines, window protection and any enclosed carport or addition. Pull the city's permit history before you waive anything, because unpermitted work affects insurance and resale. For condos, request the recertification status: buildings from 1983 to 1992 were due by the end of 2024, and newer ones come due at 30 years. Duplexes are exempt from recertification, not from the roof and permit questions.

Hialeah moves. Redfin counted 273 sales in July 2026, with homes going pending in about two months and selling around 3 percent below list. Buyers are mostly local and are comparing your house with a dozen similar ranches, so a newer roof, impact windows, a permitted addition and a clean permit history are what separate a quick sale from a long one.

Price against closed sales on your own grid, not the city median, because east Hialeah, the Palm Springs section and the newer west side trade at different levels. If you own a duplex or a legal efficiency, document the income and the permits; that inventory draws investor demand year-round.