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Miami

Miami is an incorporated city inside Miami-Dade County, which means the address can involve more than one local office. Start with the City of Miami for city permits, zoning, code, and municipal services. The county-level directory below leads to parcel records, property taxes, court and election offices, emergency management, and the separate school district.

Type
City
County
Miami-Dade
Population
489,812
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: 1245000.

Local front desk

The Miami label is not the whole jurisdiction.

Use the property address to confirm that the location is actually inside City of Miami limits before opening a city permit or code file. A Miami mailing address can also point to another municipality or an unincorporated part of Miami-Dade County, where the local route changes.

Local profile checked July 27, 2026. Confirm the address and current instructions on the linked official site.

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Address, home, and local records

Home and local tasks in Miami

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.

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Notes about Miami

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Cars and driving

Miami Metromover keeps downtown trips connected

Metromover gives downtown Miami, Omni, and Brickell a free elevated transit loop for short city trips.

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History and culture

Miami Marine Stadium was built for fast water

Miami Marine Stadium opened on Virginia Key in 1963 for powerboat racing, then became a waterfront stage for a much wider range of Miami events.

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History and culture

Black Archives Lyric Theater keeps Overtown's stage memory

The Black Archives Historic Lyric Theater keeps Overtown's music, Black business, performance, and Little Broadway memory tied to one Miami stage.

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History and culture

Miami put Coppertone into the sun-care story

Coppertone's early story is tied to Miami pharmacist Benjamin Green and one of America's first sunscreen products.

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History and culture

Vizcaya shows Miami before the skyline

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami gives Biscayne Bay a Gilded Age estate story with gardens, art, design, and preservation work.

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History and culture

WTVJ put Florida on television

Miami's WTVJ went on the air in 1949 as Florida's first television station.

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Money and taxes

Miami River keeps working water inside the city

The Miami River is not only a pretty downtown waterway; it still carries marine work, boatyards, shipping, fishing, and local trade through the middle of Miami.

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History and culture

The Kampong keeps Coconut Grove close to a plant explorer's home

The Kampong in Coconut Grove keeps Miami close to David Fairchild's plant world, with tropical gardens, old grounds, and reserved visits.

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Money and taxes

Miami Design District turns showrooms into a neighborhood money story

The Miami Design District blends luxury shops, design showrooms, dining, public art, events, and street-level browsing into one compact Miami business district.

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Home and property

Miami's MiMo stretch keeps motel modern on Biscayne

Miami's MiMo/Biscayne Boulevard Historic District turns a busy road into a midcentury property story, with old motels, signs, facades, and review rules beside daily traffic.

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Money and taxes

PortMiami keeps cruise and cargo money on the same island

PortMiami is both a cruise port and a cargo gateway, so Downtown Miami traffic, jobs, tourism, shipping, and customs all meet in one busy place.

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History and culture

The Barnacle keeps Coconut Grove's bayfront memory

The Barnacle Historic State Park in Coconut Grove preserves Ralph Munroe's 1891 bayfront home and a quieter piece of early Miami.

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Around Miami

Nearby Florida place pages, ordered by straight-line distance between Census internal points. This is not driving distance.

Source habit

Start from Miami.

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.

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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