Hialeah, Florida Airbnb Market Data 2026

Ask what an Airbnb earns in Hialeah and you'll get a number, though you won't get a number about Hialeah. The market that carries the name is Hialeah - Miramar, which reaches across two cities in two different counties, and when I put its listings against Census place boundaries this week, 1.7% of them landed inside Hialeah city limits, with another 1.2% inside Miramar. That leaves 97% of it somewhere else: Hollywood, Hallandale Beach, Sunny Isles Beach and the unincorporated pockets of northeast Miami-Dade, with 58.1% of the whole thing across the county line in Broward.

So the first thing to settle is which question you're asking. If you want to know what the coastal strip between Sunny Isles and Hollywood pays, the market-wide figures answer that honestly. If you own a house on West 49th Street in Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, Florida, and you're wondering what that house would do on Airbnb, they don't, because a Hialeah listing's median revenue runs at about half the market's.

What makes that gap interesting is where it comes from, since it isn't where most people assume. Hialeah listings fill nights at a slightly higher rate than the market does, and then they fill them at $137 a night against the market's $323, which is less than half the price.

How Much Do Hialeah Airbnbs Earn in 2026?

Inside Hialeah city limits, the median listing earned $16,987 over the trailing twelve months, at a $137 median nightly rate and 34.6% median occupancy, with the top quarter of them clearing $29,683. Across the whole Hialeah - Miramar market the median is $35,379 on a $323 nightly rate and 33.1% occupancy, and the top quarter clears $54,745. Those are medians I calculated from every listing in the market that met the same filter the market page uses, as of September 2026, so half of Hialeah's measurable listings earned less than $16,987 and half earned more. Medians run below the averages you'll see on the market page itself, which is what you'd expect, because one spectacular listing drags an average upward and does nothing at all to the middle of the pack.

Put the two occupancy figures side by side and the story changes shape. Hialeah's 34.6% is a point and a half above the market-wide 33.1%, which means the houses and condos being rented in Hialeah are getting booked. What they aren't getting is $323 a night. At $137 they're getting a little over 40 cents on the market's dollar, and since revenue is roughly what you charge multiplied by how often you charge it, the price line is where the whole difference lives.

The price gap matters for how you read any comparison. So if someone tells you a Hialeah property should be doing twice what it's doing, ask whether they're measuring it against a Hialeah median or a market one, because those two numbers are $16,987 and $35,379 and the second one is mostly beachfront.

Size explains the rest. Here's what the median listing earns at each bedroom count across the market:

Bedrooms	Median annual revenue	Median nightly rate	Median occupancy	Top-quartile revenue
Studio	$18,941	$175	30%	$22,963
1 bedroom	$25,461	$227	34%	$34,034
2 bedrooms	$41,806	$369	33%	$56,331
3 bedrooms	$49,694	$439	32%	$67,934
4+ bedrooms	$83,411	$770	32%	$128,287

BNBCalc market data, every measurable listing in the Hialeah - Miramar market, year ending August 2026. Occupancy and nightly rate are each averaged on their own, so one row's rate multiplied by its occupancy won't reproduce its revenue.

Occupancy barely moves down that table, staying between 30% and 34% at every size, while the nightly rate more than quadruples from a studio to a four-bedroom. In a market like that, buying a bigger property is buying a bigger nightly rate rather than a busier calendar, and the risk changes with it: a four-bedroom's top quartile sits above $128,000, but its median is $83,411, which is a spread no one-bedroom ever has to manage.

The typical Hialeah listing is a one-bedroom, and at that size inside the city the median is $14,212 on a $119 nightly rate. Two-bedrooms in Hialeah do better at $26,372 and $200. Anything larger is too thin inside the city to measure reliably, which is its own answer about what the local stock is being used for. For the market-wide averages by bedroom count, including the active listing mix and the purchase prices behind the yields, the Hialeah - Miramar market page carries them and refreshes on its own schedule.

Is the Hialeah Airbnb Market Oversaturated?

All of that describes where the market sits rather than where it's heading, and unfortunately the data can't settle that one yet.

Here's why. This market's stored history changed metric definitions at the start of 2025, which means a twelve-month comparison reaching back into 2024 would be comparing two different rulers. Working with the clean window instead, January through August 2026 set against those same months in 2025, the supply, occupancy and booking-lead-time trends each point one way on one window and the opposite way on another. When a trend can't hold its direction, publishing it would be worse than publishing nothing, so I'm leaving all three out.

One trend does survive every check. The market's average nightly rate is up about 23%, January to August 2026 against January to August 2025. That's a substantial move for eight months, and it's doing most of the work behind the earnings figures in this article.

A rising rate on its own doesn't tell you whether you'd be walking into a crowd, though. So rather than wait for a supply number to firm up, answer it directly for your own property instead: find the listings yours would be competing against, same city, same bedroom count, same building if it's a condo, note where their occupancy sits, then check on them again a few months later. When comparable listings hold above the market's 33% and their rates hold with them, there's room. When they're discounting to stay full, there isn't, and you'll see that in the comparables long before a market-wide average admits it.

One more thing worth keeping in mind before you buy the "it's crowded" story from a headline. Professional operators run a large share of the listings here, which tends to make a market look busier and more competitive than an owner-operator experiences it, because those listings are priced and managed as a portfolio rather than one at a time.

When Is Hialeah's Peak Airbnb Season?

Busy is a seasonal word in South Florida, and the two columns that measure it disagree about which month wins.

Month	Occupancy	Nightly rate
September 2025	22.0%	$253
October 2025	26.9%	$264
November 2025	31.7%	$273
December 2025	40.5%	$363
January 2026	51.6%	$362
February 2026	54.3%	$396
March 2026	54.0%	$394
April 2026	45.6%	$350
May 2026	38.6%	$320
June 2026	30.8%	$432
July 2026	36.0%	$426
August 2026	27.8%	$288

BNBCalc market data, every measurable listing in the Hialeah - Miramar market, the twelve months ending August 2026. The two columns are averaged separately, one at a time.

February and March are the busy months, filling a little over 54% of available nights, and the whole run from December through April holds above 40%. That's the South Florida winter season doing what it always does, and it's the half of the year a pro forma has to be built around. September and August are the soft end, at 22.0% and 27.8%, which is hurricane season and the start of the school year arriving together.

Then look at the rate column, because June and July price higher than February and March do. June tops the year at $432 a night while filling only 30.8% of nights, and July isn't far behind at $426 on 36.0%. Summer here isn't a winter market at a discount. It's a smaller number of guests, largely families on longer stays, paying more per night than the snowbirds do. If you price the summer off a seasonal rule of thumb rather than off what the market shows, you'll leave real money behind.

The week splits the way a drive-to market's week usually splits. Saturday runs about 55% ahead of Tuesday on occupancy, while it prices only about 12% ahead, so weekend demand here is much stronger than weekend pricing reflects. Make sure to look at your own Friday and Saturday rates against your midweek ones before you assume your calendar is doing all it can, because a spread that wide normally means your weekend is underpriced rather than your midweek overpriced.

Where Should You Buy an Airbnb in Hialeah?

Getting the week right matters a good deal less than getting the place right, and since almost none of this market is in Hialeah, the honest version of that question is which municipality to buy in. The answer separates by more than $80,000 of median revenue from top to bottom.

Place	County	Median annual revenue	Median nightly rate	Median occupancy	Top-quartile revenue
Ojus	Miami-Dade	$98,690	$827	36%	$139,928
Biscayne Gardens	Miami-Dade	$66,828	$581	33%	$138,881
Ives Estates	Miami-Dade	$50,018	$453	30%	$63,473
Hollywood	Broward	$42,748	$378	33%	$61,053
Pembroke Pines	Broward	$34,178	$292	35%	$43,206
Biscayne Park	Miami-Dade	$33,446	$355	30%	$58,086
Sunny Isles Beach	Miami-Dade	$31,090	$276	33%	$40,785
Hallandale Beach	Broward	$31,000	$272	33%	$47,197
Aventura	Miami-Dade	$29,445	$276	32%	$37,288
Miramar	Broward	$27,189	$279	31%	$43,401
Miami Gardens	Miami-Dade	$25,841	$288	31%	$52,048
North Miami Beach	Miami-Dade	$25,631	$214	33%	$46,348
North Miami	Miami-Dade	$21,437	$200	30%	$47,753
West Park	Broward	$18,051	$164	31%	$24,831
Hialeah	Miami-Dade	$16,987	$137	35%	$29,683

Incorporated places and Census designated places this market reaches, BNBCalc market data, year ending August 2026, drawn with one boundary source throughout, so the thinner rows will move between refreshes.

The three at the top are all unincorporated Miami-Dade, and they're up there for a reason you can act on or walk away from, because Ojus and Biscayne Gardens are big-house submarkets: the median measurable listing in Ojus has five bedrooms and the median in Biscayne Gardens has four, against two market-wide. So that $98,690 isn't a two-bedroom outperforming, it's a different product. Buying into it means buying a house that sleeps a group, and a four-bedroom carries the widest spread of any size in this market.

Occupancy is the column that stays still, since every row sits between 30% and 36% from top to bottom, so a place doesn't earn its way up this table by being busier. It earns its way up by charging more. In practice that means bigger properties, better buildings, and being closer to the water. Hollywood makes the point clearest, because it's the largest municipality here and it posts a $42,748 median on a $378 rate at 33% occupancy, while Hialeah fills a slightly higher 35% of its nights at $137.

Read the last column before you make up your mind about any row, because the two Broward beach cities separate there. Hallandale Beach and Sunny Isles Beach have almost the same median, within $90 of each other, yet Hallandale's top quartile is more than $6,400 higher. That's the signature of a market with more upside available to a listing that's set up well, which matters more to you than the median does if you intend to be better than average. Aventura sits the other way: a median close to both of them and the lowest top quartile of the three, which reads as a market of similar condo units competing on similar terms.

Hialeah's own row deserves a fair reading rather than a dismissal. It's last on revenue, and it holds the second-highest occupancy in the table. A one-bedroom in Hialeah that costs a fraction of a Sunny Isles condo and fills 35% of its nights isn't a failure, it's a different business, and gross yield is the measure that puts the two on the same footing, which is why our ranking of Florida markets by gross yield will tell you more about where this one stands than the revenue column does. Our guide to the best Hialeah neighborhoods for an Airbnb then covers the ground the numbers can't, meaning the character of each pocket, who stays there and what the streets are like. And if the city of Miami was what you were shopping for all along, this market doesn't reach it, so the Miami market data is the set you want instead.

Which Amenities Make the Most Money in Hialeah?

Once you've settled on a place, the next money question is what to put inside the property. The market-wide answer is a pool, worth about 19% more revenue, and that's the number you'll see quoted, though keep in mind it's blended across every property size, and in this market the blend hides more than it shows.

Broken out by bedroom count, the ranking changes at almost every size:

• At one bedroom, a hot tub leads, worth about 33%.
• At two bedrooms, a sauna leads, worth about 18%.
• At three bedrooms, a pool leads, worth about 23%.
• At four bedrooms and up, it's a pool again, and it hits far harder, at about 49%.

So the pooled 19% is wrong in both directions depending on what you own. Fitting out a one-bedroom condo, you'd be valuing a pool that barely moves your revenue while a hot tub moves it by a third. Go up to a four-bedroom house and the pool's lift reaches 49%, which is more than double what the blended number promised. A sauna topping the two-bedroom list is the surprise, and the likely reason is that in a market this dense with condo towers, a sauna is a building amenity rather than something an owner installs, so the listings that can advertise one are sitting in better buildings.

At studio size the model finds almost nothing that moves revenue, which fits: a studio guest is buying a location and a bed, and the extras don't change what they'll pay.

Several more amenities register a signal in this market, among them a gym, a hot tub at the larger sizes, lake access, a TV, an EV charger and whether you allow pets, though their figures aren't published openly. I'd rather name them than invent percentages for them. The model also drops the fixtures nearly every listing in South Florida already has, reasoning that an amenity on every listing in town does nothing to explain why one of them outearns the next, and that's the right call even though it leaves those amenities looking invisible.

Before you spend on any of this, remember that an amenity's value is specific to the size of the property you own, and the cheapest mistake to avoid is fitting out a small unit against a market-wide average.

Is Airbnb Legal in Hialeah?

Spending on any of it assumes you can run the listing at all. You can, and the reason is a state law rather than anything Hialeah decided. Florida Statute 509.032(7)(b) says that "a local law, ordinance, or regulation may not prohibit vacation rentals or regulate the duration or frequency of rental of vacation rentals," and it exempts only rules a city or county already had on the books on or before June 1, 2011. A Florida city that didn't restrict short-term rentals before that date can't start now.

What the state does require is a license. Under Florida Statute 509.013, your property becomes a "transient public lodging establishment" the moment it's rented to guests more than three times in one calendar year for stays shorter than 30 consecutive days, and a second trigger catches a lot of people: a property "advertised or held out to the public as a place regularly rented" for short stays qualifies too, whether or not you've taken that third booking. Cross either line and the state wants a vacation rental license, issued by its Division of Hotels and Restaurants, which is a separate step from registering with the Department of Revenue to collect tax. The legislature rewrote parts of this in 2025 through Senate Bill 606, which the Governor approved on June 2, 2025, and which became Chapter 2025-113 and took effect that July 1.

Then the city line takes over, and in this market that's where the real differences sit.

Unincorporated Miami-Dade, which covers Ojus, Biscayne Gardens and Ives Estates, runs the county's own program under Section 33-28 of the county code. You need a certificate of use before you list or advertise the property, an inspection is scheduled when you apply, and the certificate has to be renewed every year and displayed inside the rental with the responsible party's name, address, phone number and the maximum occupancy. That occupancy cap is a real constraint on the big-house strategy those three places are built on: two people per bedroom plus two more for the property, to a hard ceiling of twelve, not counting children under three. Operating without the certificate draws $100 for a first offense, $1,000 for a second within 24 months and $2,500 for a third, and a citation adds a $231.90 violation fee plus double the cost of the certificate when you finally get one.

Hialeah itself had no vacation rental ordinance of its own when we last went through the city's code in August 2026, so none of that county machinery reaches a property inside city limits. Miami-Dade says so directly: for a property inside a municipality, you deal with the municipality. So what's left in Hialeah is the state license, the tax registrations, and the ordinary business tax receipt the city expects of anyone operating a business there, with a zoning and building check folded into that same application. Our Hialeah short-term rental guide walks through each of those steps and who to call for them.

Hollywood, the market's largest municipality, is the other extreme. Its Chapter 119 requires a city vacation rental license before you advertise the property at all, an inspection before the license is issued and another one every year at renewal, and it caps sleeping occupancy at two people per bedroom with daytime occupancy at one and a half times the overnight figure. The city's own fee schedule, adopted in October 2025, puts an application that isn't owner-occupied at $850 and the renewal at $600, with $400 for the initial inspection up to 1,500 square feet and $300 for the annual one. Operating without the city license carries a $350 penalty, and the daily fine for operating unlicensed runs to $5,000. There's a landline requirement too, since Chapter 119 asks for at least one telephone able to reach 911 in the main common area. Our Hollywood short-term rental guide has the rest of it.

Tax is the one thing that lands the same on both sides of the county line. A stay of six months or less carries Florida's 6% state sales tax, a 1% discretionary surtax, and a 6% local transient rental tax that Miami-Dade and Broward each collect themselves, which comes to 13% either way. Guests pay that alongside the nightly rate, which means it was never yours in the first place, so leave it out of any pro forma you build on the figures in this article. Our Florida short-term rental tax guide walks through who sends which piece where, and whether your booking platform is already handling it for you.

None of that touches a homeowners association or a condo board. State preemption binds governments, and it has nothing to say about a private association's documents, which in a market full of condo towers is the restriction most likely to stop you. Check those before you close rather than after, and check the current version of every rule above too, since the ones that move tend to move without warning.

Where Does This Hialeah Airbnb Data Come From?

Those guides handle the paperwork, and every number in this one traces back to BNBCalc Markets, the half of BNBCalc that sizes short-term rental markets up and sets them against each other. Amenities are where it runs furthest past what an article can hold. Remember the ones I named a moment ago with no percentage attached, the gym and the hot tub and the rest? Markets carries a revenue figure for each of them at every bedroom count it tracks, so you can price out a specific unit before you spend a dollar on it.

How Do You Estimate Airbnb Revenue for a Hialeah Property?

All of it feeds one job in the end, which is putting a number on a specific address. With a market this uneven, that estimate is only as good as the boundary you draw around it, so draw the tightest one the data will support.

Start from the municipality rather than the market. If the property is in Hialeah, your anchor is $16,987 at the median and $29,683 at the top quartile, not the $35,379 market figure, and if it's in Hollywood your anchor is $42,748. Getting this step wrong is the single largest error available in this market, and it's worth more than everything else you'll do put together.

Then adjust for size using the bedroom table, keeping the direction of the adjustment in mind. Moving from two bedrooms to three adds about $8,000 to the median while occupancy stays flat, so you're modeling a rate increase, not a demand increase. Be careful about stacking the two adjustments blindly, since a three-bedroom in Hialeah and a three-bedroom in Ojus are not the same property in the same market, and the Hialeah city rows thin out fast above two bedrooms.

Next, build the year rather than a flat average. December through April carries the market at 40% to 54% occupancy, June and July carry it on price at above $425 a night, and September and August give a lot of it back. A twelve-month model built on one occupancy figure will be wrong in both directions for about eight months of the year.

Then decide where you sit in the spread. The median is the middle listing, and the top quartile is what the better quarter of them clear. If you're buying a property that needs work, or you've never run a listing before, model the median and treat the top quartile as the target you earn your way to over two or three seasons. If you're buying something already furnished and reviewed in a strong building, the top quartile is a fairer starting point.

Last, subtract the costs that belong to you. Cleaning, platform fees, utilities, insurance, association dues and management if you use it, plus whatever the municipality charges to license and inspect, which as you've seen runs from nothing to $1,250 in the first year depending on which side of a line you're on. The lodging tax isn't one of these, since the guest pays it. Run the address through the BNBCalc calculator with the comparables it pulls for that exact location, and you'll get a figure that reflects the block rather than the county.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does an Airbnb in Hialeah make per year?

The median listing inside Hialeah city limits earned $16,987 over the twelve months ending August 2026, at a $137 median nightly rate and 34.6% median occupancy. The top quarter of Hialeah listings cleared $29,683. Across the wider Hialeah - Miramar market, which is mostly outside the city, the median is $35,379.

What is a good occupancy rate for an Airbnb in Hialeah?

The market's median occupancy is 33.1%, and inside Hialeah it's 34.6%, so anything above the mid-thirties is doing better than typical. Occupancy is highly seasonal here: February and March run above 54% while September runs at 22%, so judge a property against the same month rather than against an annual figure.

Do you need a license to run an Airbnb in Hialeah?

Yes. Florida requires a vacation rental license, issued by its Division of Hotels and Restaurants, once a property is rented more than three times in one calendar year for stays shorter than 30 consecutive days, or advertised as regularly available for short stays. Hialeah has no vacation rental ordinance of its own, so hosts also need the city's ordinary business tax receipt and registrations for state and county tax.

How much tax do guests pay on a short-term rental in Hialeah?

A stay of six months or less carries 6% Florida sales tax, a 1% county discretionary surtax and a 6% local transient rental tax, which is 13% in both Miami-Dade and Broward County. The county collects the last of those directly. The guest pays it at booking, so it never comes off the host's revenue.

Which cities are in the Hialeah - Miramar Airbnb market?

The market reaches Hollywood, Hallandale Beach, Sunny Isles Beach, Aventura, North Miami, North Miami Beach, Miami Gardens, Biscayne Park, Pembroke Pines, West Park, Miramar and Hialeah, plus the unincorporated Miami-Dade communities of Ojus, Biscayne Gardens and Ives Estates. Broward County holds 58.1% of the market's listings and Miami-Dade holds 41.9%.

Is a bigger property better in the Hialeah market?

Bigger properties earn more and take more risk. The median four-bedroom earns $83,411 against $41,806 for a two-bedroom, but occupancy is flat across every size at 30% to 34%, so the gain comes entirely from the nightly rate. A four-bedroom's top quartile of $128,287 sits far above its median, which is a wider spread than any smaller size has to manage.

Whatever you end up buying, the lesson this market teaches applies well beyond it. A market's name tells you where somebody drew a line on a map, not where the money is, and the moment you measure inside that line instead of across it, the averages you were working from stop being a description of anything you own.