Miami Gardens, Florida population is 113,579 as of July 1, 2025 (U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 estimate), ranking #280 nationally and #21 in Florida. Cost of living runs 14% above the U.S. average (BEA RPP 2024); a family of four needs roughly $109,710/yr to break even (2025 modeled). This profile draws on 13 federal datasets covering population, housing, income, employment, climate, and risk.
At a glance.
2025 population
113,579
-1,475 in the last year
Top 2% of 19,483 U.S. cities
Census Vintage 2025
Cost of living
RPP 114.2
+14% vs US
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL metro · BEA 2024
Family-of-4 budget
$109,710/yr
+37% vs US
Modeled 2025 · federal sources
Median HH income
$63,627
−18% vs US
ACS 2020–2024 5-yr
Median home value
$378,500
+25% vs US
ACS 2020–2024 5-yr
2-BR fair-market rent
$2,436/mo
HUD FY2026 · 40th pct
Avg July high
91°F
NOAA 1991–2020
Gigabit broadband
96%
ISP-reported, FCC BDC
Explore Miami Gardens, FL demographics, including age, race and ethnicity, households, origins, language, and education.
How many people live in Miami Gardens?
113,579 people live in Miami Gardens as of July 1, 2025 (U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025), the #280 largest U.S. city.
How big is Miami Gardens?
Miami Gardens covers 18.5 square miles of land and 0.8 square miles of water. Its population density is about 6,146 residents per square mile of land. Compare U.S. cities by land area →
Source detail: 2025 population
2025 population
Source agency
U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division
Dataset
Census PEP
Vintage / period
Vintage 2025 (Jul 1, 2025)
Native geography
Census PEP subcounty place records for the included city universe.
Transformation
Copied from POPESTIMATE2025, joined by Census GEOID, and used for ranks, filters, and city pages.
Known limit: Annual estimate, not a decennial count; each new PEP vintage can revise the prior series.
Population grew 1.9% from the April 2020 base to mid-2025.
Vintage 2025 · annual estimates
Recent history (V2025 series, 2020 base → 2025).
2020 base: 111,450 → 2025: 113,579 (+1.9%)
Year
Population
Reference date
2020 base
111,450
April 1, 2020
2020
111,282
July 1, 2020
2021
111,417
July 1, 2021
2022
112,916
July 1, 2022
2023
115,151
July 1, 2023
2024
115,054
July 1, 2024
2025
113,579
July 1, 2025
Earlier history (2010–2019, prior Census vintage)
These figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Vintage 2019 release — a separate, earlier methodology. They’re shown here as historical context only; the 2010 and 2019 values aren’t directly comparable to the 2020–2025 series above.
Population grew 2.3% from the July 2010 estimate to 2019 (V2019 — see seam note below).
Miami Gardens is the #280 largest of 19,483 U.S. cities and #21 in Florida.
▸Show the analyst detail (9 rows)
Measure
Value
Note
2020 base
111,450
April 1, 2020 census base
5-yr change
+2,129
2020 base → 2025; within V2025
5-yr change %
+1.9%
within V2025 only
1-yr change
-1,475
2024 → 2025 estimate
1-yr change %
-1.3%
within V2025 only
Density
6,146
people per sq mi, land only
Land area
18.5
sq mi (2025 Gazetteer)
U.S. rank by population
#280
of 19,483 cities
State rank by population
#21
of 411 in Florida
What is the median household income in Miami Gardens?
Median household income is 18% below the U.S. median ($63,627 vs $77,719); 13.6% live in poverty — 1.1 points above the 12.5% U.S. rate.
Median household income$63,627
US
Miami Gardens: $63,627 — 18% below the US median of $77,719.
Scale: 10th–90th percentile of cities with ACS income data
Miami Gardens
$63,627
United States
$77,719
Income and poverty estimates for Miami Gardens from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year estimates (window 2020–2024). Every figure is shown with its 90% margin of error (MOE). Cells where the ± margin exceeds half the estimate are flagged "low precision." See methodology §12.
Measure
Estimate
± margin / note
Median household income
63,627-18.1% vs US
±1,785
Per capita income
26,595-38.6% vs US
±1,050
Population in poverty
13.6%
share of population for whom poverty status is determined
Median home value is 25% above the U.S. median ($378,500 vs $303,400); median rent is 33% above ($1,787 vs $1,348); price-to-income ratio is 5.9×, making it 1.5× as cost-burdened as the typical U.S. city (3.9×).
Median home value$378,500
US
Miami Gardens: $378,500 — 25% above the US median of $303,400.
Scale: 10th–90th percentile of cities with ACS home-value data
HUD 2-BR fair-market rent$2,436/mo
US
Miami Gardens: $2,436/mo — 126% above the US median of $1,077/mo.
Scale: 10th–90th percentile of cities with a HUD Fair Market Rent
Poverty (Census SAIPE 2024, model-based), unemployment (BLS LAUS 2024 annual averages), and remote-work share (ACS 2020–2024) for Miami Gardens. Numbers are labeled at their native grain — place-grain when BLS publishes it, otherwise per-county. We do not compute population-weighted county averages. See methodology §13.
Measure
Value
Grain
Unemployment rate (annual avg)
3.1%
Miami Gardens (BLS sub-state LAUS)
Civilian labor force
53,899
2024 annual avg
Worked from home
8.9%-36.4% vs US
share of workers 16+ commuting from home · U.S. median: 14% · ACS
County context — Miami Gardens sits in Miami-Dade County:
County
Poverty rate
Median HH income
Unemployment
Miami-Dade County
14.2%
$75,779
2.4%
Top industries by private employment — NAICS supersectors rolled up from Miami Gardens's linked county in the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW, 2024 annual averages). See methodology §11.
#
Industry (NAICS supersector)
Private employment
Avg weekly wage
#1
Health care and social assistance (62)
174,494
$1,342 / wk
#2
Retail trade (44-45)
141,502
$971 / wk
#3
Accommodation and food services (72)
132,352
$798 / wk
#4
Professional and technical services (54)
98,839
$2,381 / wk
#5
Transportation and warehousing (48-49)
93,155
$1,528 / wk
What workers earn in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL metro — top occupations by employment plus six curated benchmarks (registered nurse, software developer, elementary teacher, general manager, retail salesperson, truck driver). Wages are metro-area medians from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). See methodology §25.
Retail Salespersons is the largest tracked occupation in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL metro (91,370 jobs, median $34,330/yr).
▸Show all 13 occupations
Occupation
Employment
Median annual
Median hourly
Customer Service Representatives
63,440
$39,560
$19.02
Office Clerks, General
61,160
$44,730
$21.51
Waiters and Waitresses
57,830
$36,070
$17.34
Fast Food and Counter Workers
56,900
$29,600
$14.23
Cashiers
56,340
$30,250
$14.54
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
48,860
$38,580
$18.55
Stockers and Order Fillers
45,270
$36,110
$17.36
Retail Salespersons · benchmark
91,370
$34,330
$16.50
General and Operations Managers · benchmark
74,960
$105,640
$50.79
Registered Nurses · benchmark
61,670
$91,380
$43.93
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers · benchmark
29,060
$51,580
$24.80
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education · benchmark
All items run 14.2% above the U.S. average (RPP 114.2); rents run 55.6% above (RPP 155.6) — the metro's housing premium is the main driver.
Cost of living (RPP, all items)RPP 114.2
US
Miami Gardens's cost of living runs 14.2% above the U.S. average (RPP 114.2 vs 100).
Scale: 10th–90th percentile of metro/non-metro areas with a BEA price parity
BEA Regional Price Parity (all items)
RPP 114.2
+14.2% vs U.S. average · BEA 2024 · Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL metro
HUD Fair Market Rent, 2-BR
$2,436/mo
FY2026 · Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL HUD Metro FMR Area
State income tax (top marginal rate)
0%
no state income tax · TY2025
Family-of-four monthly budget total
$9,142/mo
3BR rent + food + childcare + taxes + transport · federal sources
Single-adult monthly budget total
$5,500/mo
1BR rent + food + taxes + transport · federal sources
Local income tax
—
not applicable in Florida · no modeled local income tax
Household budget figures are arithmetic floors using current federal sources at the grains documented in methodology. Not a recommended salary, not a poverty threshold, not a composite score.
38.7% foreign-born (U.S. median 14%); Spanish is the most-spoken language at home other than English (32.9% of residents 5+).
A quick read on Miami Gardens's residents — nativity and languages spoken at home shown above, from the ACS 5-Year 2020–2024. The full demographic breakdown (age, race and ethnicity, household types, and educational attainment, each with its margin of error) lives on the demographics page.
Hottest month: August (91°F avg high). Coldest: January (59°F avg low). Annual precipitation: 61.4 in.
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) for Miami Gardens from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. See methodology §15 for the gridded vs. station source path.
Average monthly highs & lows · 30-year normal (NOAA 1991–2020). Every number on this chart is an average.
bar = avg daily high → avg daily lowprecip in inches below each barprecip in millimeters below each bar
Composite risk score: 99.6/100 — Very High nationally; top hazard: Hurricane (100.0).
Natural-hazard exposure for Miami Gardens from the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Risk Index (FEMA NRI December 2025 v1.20.0). NRI is an expected-annual-loss composite calibrated on 1996–2019 historical losses, published at the U.S. county grain. See methodology §17.
County
NRI composite
Rating
Top hazards
Miami-Dade County
99.6
Very High
Hurricane 100.0 Very High · Lightning 99.9 Very High · Riverine Flooding 99.7 Very High
Source: FEMA National Risk Index · FEMA NRI December 2025 v1.20.0 · methodology →
How fast is home internet in Miami Gardens?
12 non-satellite ISPs serve the area; 96% of locations have gigabit-capable service per ISP filings.
Fixed broadband availability for Miami Gardens from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's Broadband Data Collection (BDC), as of June 30, 2025. Every speed and provider count below is an ISP-reported advertised maximum — not measured throughput. Actual delivered speeds typically run 60–80% of advertised. See methodology §16.
Measure
Value
Note
Providers serving this city
12 + satellite
distinct ISPs, excluding satellite-only
Fiber providers
10
offer fiber-to-the-premises somewhere in the BDC
Units with ≥100/20 Mbps fixed
100.0%
share of broadband-serviceable units, ISP-reported max
Locations with ≥100 Mbps upload
95.9%
derived: max(fiber ≥100/20, gigabit). Fiber is symmetric; gigabit is ≥100 up by definition
Units with ≥1 Gbps fixed
95.9%
share of broadband-serviceable units, ISP-reported max
Total broadband-serviceable units
37,489
residential locations in the FCC Fabric (not households)
Source: FCC BDC · as of June 30, 2025 · methodology →
In-state context.
Miami Gardens sits at state rank #21 among 411 cities in Florida. Nearby in the state ranking:
Just above in the profiled set: Tyler, TX · #279 · 113,723 residents.
Just below in the profiled set: Everett, WA · #281 · 113,567 residents.
Quick travel facts for Miami Gardens
Quick travel facts.
Nearest commercial airport
Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport(OPF) · 4 mi 6 km from city centroid
Best months to visit
Jan, Feb, Dec · months when the avg high sits in 65–80°F and precipitation is at or below the city's median monthly precip
Sources: elevation from USGS Elevation Point Query Service (3DEP) · nearest airport from OurAirports CSV (FAA-aligned, type=large/medium, scheduled_service=yes) · best months derived from NOAA 1991-2020 normals · methodology →
Frequently asked questions about Miami Gardens.
How many people live in Miami Gardens, FL?
Miami Gardens has 113,579 residents as of July 1, 2025, making it the #280 largest city in the United States and #21 in Florida. Source: U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025.
Is Miami Gardens growing or shrinking?
Miami Gardens has grown 1.9% since the April 2020 census baseline, adding 2,129 residents. The most recent year ticked down slightly (−1,475 residents, −1.3% from 2024 to 2025). Source: Census PEP Vintage 2025.
What was Miami Gardens's population in the 2020 census?
The GEOID for Miami Gardens is 1245060. These are the official datasets used by this profile's main data modules; click "methodology" for inclusion rules and the V2019 ↔ V2025 seam, or "source" for the raw publisher page. The headline population value above includes a source-detail disclosure with publisher, dataset, vintage, native geography, transformation, and caveat.
