Florida · Census place 1230000

Hialeah, Florida

Hialeah is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida with an estimated 235,388 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 7th largest of 333 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
235,388
#7 of 333 in Florida
Change since 2020
+5.8%
+12,970 people
Land area
21.6 sq mi
+ 1.22 sq mi water
Density
10,903 / sq mi
State median 2,498
Orange pin: Hialeah. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Tallahassee.

Hialeah population, 2020 to 2024

Hialeah added 12,970 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.8%. In the latest year it moved by +6,831. Among 229 Florida places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 100th; the median place changed by +4.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Florida has 21,954 people, so Hialeah is 10.7 times that size.

222.4k2020221.0k2021223.6k2022228.6k2023235.4k2024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 223,122. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Hialeah covers 21.59 square miles of land and 1.22 of water, for 10,903 people per square mile of land. The median Florida place of 5,000+ has 2,498, so Hialeah is denser than the typical town.

What county Hialeah is in

All of Hialeah's residents live in Miami-Dade County, which had 2,838,461 residents in 2024. Hialeah holds 8.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hialeah

6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Hialeah by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 33010, 33012, 33013, 33014, 33016, 33018. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Hialeah is

The Census internal point of Hialeah is at 25.869900, -80.302900. Tallahassee, the capital, is 397.9 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Miami, FL (487,014 people), 8.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Miami Gardens, FL, 6.6 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 3 m (10 ft) above sea level.

Internal point

Decimal
25.869900, -80.302900
DMS
25°52'11.64"N 80°18'10.44"W
UTM
17N 569841.9E 2861461.6N
Geohash
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Plus code
76QXVM9W+XR
Time zone
America/New_York

Daylight in Hialeah

At 25.87° N, Hialeah gets about 13 h 45 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 31 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Hialeah daylight page.

Places near Hialeah

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Florida, measured between internal points. The closest is Miami Lakes, 3.2 miles away, with 33,247 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Hialeah, FL?

235,388 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 12,970 (5.8%) from 222,418 in July 2020.

What county is Hialeah in?

Miami-Dade County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Hialeah?

6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 33010, 33012, 33013, 33014, 33016, 33018.

How far is Hialeah from Tallahassee?

397.9 miles (640.3 km) in a straight line, heading NW from Hialeah.

What is the nearest larger city to Hialeah?

Miami, FL, with 487,014 residents, 8.8 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
  5. 05Open-Meteo forecast API (time zone and Copernicus GLO-90 elevation) (last verified 2026-09-30)

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