Miami-Dade County
Homestead
Homestead is an incorporated city in Miami-Dade County with its own municipal utilities, permits, code files, and lien-search process. A City of Homestead search covers city-held items, while Miami-Dade County remains a separate route for county property and recorded documents.
- Type
- City
- County
- Miami-Dade
- Population
- 86,242
Data notes
Population source: Census Vintage 2025 subcounty population estimates. Florida Revenue November 2025 county planning row: 18.4893 mills for Miami-Dade County. Census GEOID: 1232275.
Local front desk
A Homestead lien search covers city files.
The City Clerk coordinates Homestead's municipal lien-search process across local departments. That search can help with city code, utility, and permit-related items, but it does not replace the Miami-Dade Clerk's recorded-document search or other county records.
Local government
Property and records
People and safety
Local profile checked July 27, 2026. Confirm the address and current instructions on the linked official site.
Open the full Miami-Dade County directory ->Address, home, and local records
Home and local tasks in Homestead
Start with the exact address, then use the task to choose the state agency, county office, city department, school district, utility, emergency manager, insurer, lender, or private document that handles the detail.
Address and ZIP
Separate the mailing label from the local boundary
The postal city, ZIP Code, county, municipality, parcel, school district, evacuation zone, and utility area can describe different parts of the same address.
Check the address path ->Property tax
Miami-Dade County tax planning
The November 2025 county planning row is 18.4893 mills, about $1,849 per $100,000 of taxable value before parcel-specific charges.
Open millage tool ->Storm planning
Check evacuation zone and local alerts
Evacuation zones, shelter plans, county alerts, and local emergency orders can change by exact address.
Open evacuation planner ->Permits and records
Look up the local file
Building permits, code cases, liens, zoning, business tax receipts, and utility records may sit with Miami-Dade County, a city, or a district.
Open records guide ->Address changes
Update the records that follow the address
Mail forwarding does not update a driver record, vehicle record, voter file, property mail, insurance, utilities, schools, or private accounts.
Open address checklist ->Direct Porch Notes
Notes about Homestead
These entries have been reviewed as directly about this place or its local area.
Useful local context
Notes that mention, illustrate, or sit near Homestead
These links can help with the next question, but the rule or subject may be statewide, countywide, regional, or only nearby.
Outdoors
Biscayne National Park starts on land, then turns to water
Biscayne National Park is in Miami-Dade County and 95% water; its mainland visitor center uses a Homestead address, while boating, weather, and tours shape most visits.
Read this note ->History and culture
Robert Is Here keeps the Redland fruit-stand story personal
Robert Is Here grew from a boy's roadside cucumber table into a family fruit stand in the Redland area of South Miami-Dade.
Read this note ->History and culture
Fruit and Spice Park makes Homestead's tropical side easy to taste
Fruit and Spice Park near Homestead gives Miami-Dade a public garden built around tropical fruit, spices, herbs, nuts, and farm-country curiosity.
Read this note ->History and culture
Coral Castle keeps South Dade's stone mystery
Coral Castle near Homestead is part sculpture garden, part engineering puzzle, and part old Florida roadside mystery.
Read this note ->Outdoors
Everglades water starts before the park
Everglades National Park protects a huge South Florida wetland system, but the water story reaches well past the park boundary.
Read this note ->Outdoors
Anhinga Trail starts the Everglades near Homestead
Anhinga Trail gives the Homestead entrance to Everglades National Park an easy first walk through sawgrass marsh.
Read this note ->Around Homestead
Nearby Florida place pages, ordered by straight-line distance between Census internal points. This is not driving distance.
Source habit
Start from Homestead.
Florida rules can split across a state agency, county office, city counter, district, school, park manager, insurer, lender, or contract. These paths keep the local page connected to the next official-source check.
Home and local tasks
Property, storms, permits, and offices
Use the task that matches the next decision, then confirm the address with the responsible office.
Open tasks ->County context
Open Miami-Dade County
Use the county directory for nearby local pages and notes tied to the same county.
Open county ->Place notes
Local and related notes
Direct local notes and contextual connections are labeled separately so the geographic claim stays clear.
Open notes ->Search
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Search ->Data and page limits
Last checked July 26, 2026. Place names, county coverage, GEOIDs, coordinates, and population labels come from the Census sources in the Florida place data used by this site. County tax planning rows use Florida Revenue November 2025 millage data. The local front desk is a reviewed profile of the city and county split, checked July 27, 2026. Direct note relationships and contextual note paths are kept separate. Parcel values, exemptions, permits, school assignments, storm instructions, utility service, private rules, and final bills still depend on the exact address and the official office or document.
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