The Hammocks, Florida

Area Profile

58,838 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for The Hammocks, in Miami-Dade County.

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How we calculate this

How this area ranks
SchoolsTop 39% of 2,668 cities measured60
Housing affordability3892nd of 4,223 cities measured46
ClimateTop 15% of 4,223 cities measured81
Physical resilience3355th of 4,182 cities measured24
AccessTop 23% of 4,226 cities measured97
Economic stabilityTop 50% of 4,226 cities measured60
The quick read

Housing costs more relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 31% of median household income and the median home is 5.5 times it.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by hurricane, cold wave and coastal flooding.

A major airport is 13 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
58,838
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$85,628
Top 28% nationally
Density
7,459/sq mi
7.9 sq mi of land
Median age
41.6
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Miami-Dade County
Florida
Metro area
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
Nearest major airport
MIA
13 mi · Miami Intl
Median home value
$468,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

38% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 79% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$7,327$85,628Top 28%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,896$35,341Top 45%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate12.1%Top 46%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute38.1 minTop 10%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher37.9%Top 21%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Labor force participation64.6%Top 35%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$67,190Bottom 42%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median annual wage$48,640Bottom 27%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202486k74k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $85,628 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Retail Salespersons91,370$34,330
General and Operations Managers74,960$105,640
Customer Service Representatives63,440$39,560
Registered Nurses61,670$91,380
Office Clerks, General61,160$44,730
Waiters and Waitresses57,830$36,070

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

57% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 64% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 17.8 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
8
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
17.8
across all schools here
Math proficiency
57.2%
Top 38% in Florida
Reading proficiency
63.6%
Top 24% in Florida
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
FELIX VARELA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLMIAMI-DADE1,93524.2
JORGE MAS CANOSA MIDDLE SCHOOLMIAMI-DADE1,01918.256%53%
NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMIAMI-DADE99615.867%74%
KENDALL SQUARE K-8 CENTERMIAMI-DADE63817.770%79%
OLIVER HOOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMIAMI-DADE61714.059%67%
DR. GILBERT L. PORTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMIAMI-DADE58613.357%55%
HAMMOCKS MIDDLE SCHOOLMIAMI-DADE48620.332%42%
CHRISTINA M. EVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMIAMI-DADE48215.147%72%

41.5% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Florida’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $2,187 takes 31% of median household income, above the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 5.5 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
30.6%
Above the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.5×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,187
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$468,100
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income5.47Top 12%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate62.7%Bottom 25%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±83720,355Top 3%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$67$2,187Top 6%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$8,386$468,100Top 13%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income30.6%Top 6%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate3.6%Bottom 22%of 32,0012024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

8 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 91°F and January a low of 57°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 56.1 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 48, in the Good band, and about 4 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station MIAMI KENDALL TAMIAMI EXEC AP, 1.9 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND8.8"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index61.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation56.1"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low57°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months81991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10042024 calendar year
Median air quality index48.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing17°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
48
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
61
90th percentile index
Days above 100
4
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

24 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, cold wave and coastal flooding.

HurricaneElevated
Coastal floodingModerate
Cold waveElevated

Low or minimal exposure: lightning, inland flooding, heat wave, tornado, wildfire, hail, strong wind, drought, earthquake, landslide.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Miami-Dade County records 4.6 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 7.4 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 7.3 per 100,000 residents in Miami-Dade County.

Homicide
4.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
7.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
7.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
8.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Miami-Dade County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around The Hammocks rather than The Hammocks itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes and full cost of living
No public source publishes either with national coverage and a method open enough to check. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 13 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Miami IntlMIA13 mi13,016 ft
Miami-Opa Locka ExecOPF20 mi8,002 ft
Dade-Collier Training and TransitionTNT31 mi10,499 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
MiamiMiami-Dade County459,74553vs The Hammocks
HialeahMiami-Dade County226,16552vs The Hammocks
Fort LauderdaleBroward County185,60448vs The Hammocks
Pembroke PinesBroward County173,19446vs The Hammocks
HollywoodBroward County155,08245vs The Hammocks
MiramarBroward County138,60054vs The Hammocks
Coral SpringsBroward County136,10349vs The Hammocks
West Palm BeachPalm Beach County122,29051vs The Hammocks
Pompano BeachBroward County114,14744vs The Hammocks
Miami GardensMiami-Dade County113,17745vs The Hammocks
DavieBroward County108,34650vs The Hammocks
Boca RatonPalm Beach County100,23454vs The Hammocks

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in The Hammocks

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
3319654,668$94,961