Buying the median home in Hialeah means financing $450,000. Against the area's $52,000 median household income, that works out to a 8.7x price-to-income ratio.
Property taxes in Hialeah run 1% of assessed value, below the 1.1% national average. On the median home, that's $4,500 a year, or $375 added to the monthly payment.
Florida charges no state income tax. Every dollar of the $52,000 median household income here converts more directly into covering the $2,896/month payment.
Hialeah's cost of living index is 112, above the 100 national baseline. That's on top of the housing numbers above, not instead of them.
Hialeah's median home price runs 25% lower than nearby Miami: $600,000 there versus $450,000 here.