City safety & data profile
Sunny Isles BeachFL
Sunny Isles Beach, FL is a 22K-resident city in Miami-Dade County with a median household income of $61,921.
Miami-Dade County, Florida. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Sunny Isles Beach, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Sunny Isles Beach has a population larger than 49% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $549,100, and 5 hospitals serving the surrounding area.
- 22K
- Population (place)
- Bottom 50%
- By size
- $61,921
- Median income (place)
- $549,100
- Median home (place)
- 14.3%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Sunny Isles Beach
Sunny Isles Beach posts a median household income higher than 25% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 5 hospitals serve the Sunny Isles Beach area.
- Bottom 26%
- by median income, US cities
- 5
- hospitals in & near Sunny Isles Beach
Composite score · Sunny Isles Beach, FL
50/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2024
A transparent index Areazine derives from Census ACS medians (income, poverty, bachelor's share) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when published, not an official Census Bureau or FBI rating. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability rating, not a recommendation to move to or avoid any place. Missing inputs drop out and redistribute weight. How it is calculated.
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents. State-level rate (per-city UCR reporting is incomplete/voluntary): every city in the state shares this value; lower is stronger on this axis.
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis. ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Median household income vs cities tracked on Areazine; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Curious how Sunny Isles Beach stacks up nationwide? See the full tables: Healthiest Cities in America (health outcomes only) · Community Wellbeing Cities (this page's blended composite).
Where Sunny Isles Beach income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$61,921 Bottom 25% higher than 25% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles
Each bar is a $20,000-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year
Biggest cities by headcount in FL
310 FL places (10,000+ residents, ACS income on record), sorted by population. Hover a bar for its income rank in this pool.
- Jacksonville
Jacksonville, FL
1,009,833 residents
- Miami
Miami, FL
487,014 residents
- Tampa
Tampa, FL
414,547 residents
- Orlando 334,854
Orlando, FL
334,854 residents
- St. Petersburg 257,083
St. Petersburg, FL
257,083 residents
- Hialeah 237,069
Hialeah, FL
237,069 residents
- Tallahassee 201,731
Tallahassee, FL
201,731 residents
- Fort Lauderdale 183,146
Fort Lauderdale, FL
183,146 residents
- Cape Coral 175,229
Cape Coral, FL
175,229 residents
- Pembroke Pines 166,611
Pembroke Pines, FL
166,611 residents
What this shows By headcount, Jacksonville ranks #1 here -- income honors go to Pinecrest.
Top earners by city in FL
Median household income among the same 310-city pool. Tooltip shows the population rank.
- Pinecrest
Pinecrest, FL
$206,417 median
- Parkland
Parkland, FL
$198,669 median
- Lake Butler
Lake Butler, FL
$182,500 median
- Key Biscayne
Key Biscayne, FL
$181,505 median
- Keystone
Keystone, FL
$161,056 median
- Naples
Naples, FL
$153,182 median
- Miami Shores
Miami Shores, FL
$144,050 median
- Palmetto Bay
Palmetto Bay, FL
$142,447 median
- Fruit Cove
Fruit Cove, FL
$141,863 median
- Weston
Weston, FL
$139,825 median
What this shows Pinecrest leads this pool on median income; Jacksonville is the population leader instead.
The quick read
Reading Sunny Isles Beach, FL beyond the headline numbers
Sunny Isles Beach sits inside Miami-Dade County, Florida, at roughly 25.95°N, -80.12°W. Population 22,123, $61,921 median household income. Median home value $549,100, median rent $2,096. Poverty rate 14.3%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
5 hospitals in/around Sunny Isles Beach (nearest 1.4 mi away), 2.8/5 avg rating, 4 with an ER. Climate: 76.1°F annual average, 65.1" precipitation.
The median home in Sunny Isles Beach costs around 8.9 times what a median household earns in a year -- the most expensive quarter of reporting cities, and far enough ahead of local pay that ownership is largely closed to median earners.
At 47.5 years, Sunny Isles Beach's median age is in the oldest quarter of reporting cities.
3.3% of Sunny Isles Beach workers commute by public transit, a larger share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.
23.9% of Sunny Isles Beach workers report working from home, the highest quarter of reporting cities. Where that share runs this high, local income increasingly reflects employers located somewhere else.
Among the CDC measures on this page, frequent mental distress departs furthest from its peer median: 13.2% in Sunny Isles Beach, the lowest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.
$2,096/month is the median rent in Sunny Isles Beach, FL, placing it in the priciest quarter of reporting cities; housing cost is doing real work against the household budget here.
A bachelor's degree or higher is common in Sunny Isles Beach: 53.2% of adults, the highest quarter of reporting cities -- a labor pool skewed toward credentialed work.
Poverty in Sunny Isles Beach, FL stands at 14.3%, above the midpoint of reporting cities. A median income can look comfortable while a share this size sits well beneath it, which is why the two figures belong together.
Unemployment in Sunny Isles Beach sits at 4.6%, below the midpoint of reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Sunny Isles Beach from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.
The 10-Year Trend 2013–2024
County-level trend (Miami-Dade County): Sunny Isles Beach's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.
Economics
What stands out most about Sunny Isles Beach's economic profile: median rent at $2,096/mo, 36% above the average across tracked places. Median household income also diverges: $61,921, 31% below average.
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 14.3% +15% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 4.6% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 53.2% |
| Work From Home | 23.9% |
| Public Transit | 3.3% |
Population
Health Snapshot 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Hospitals Within Range 5 within 25 mi
CMS Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating (1-5): a composite score across dozens of reported measures, not a single outcome guarantee for any patient. It isn't adjusted for patient case mix and isn't directly comparable across hospital types, a critical-access facility and a large teaching hospital aren't rated on the same measure set.
Climate
NOAA 1991-2020 NormalsCost of Living
BEA 202414.2% above national average
Metro area: Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL (MSA)
Source: BEA Regional Price Parities via FRED. RPP of 100 = national average.
NFIP Flood Claim History
FEMA NFIP, county-levelMiami-Dade County has recorded 7,815 National Flood Insurance Program claims totaling $259.8M in payouts since 2016.
Hurricane Irma alone generated 3,765 of those claims, the county's largest named flood event in this record.
Source: FEMA National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) claims, via OpenFEMA. County-level data: individual claims are not attributed to a specific city or address by FEMA.
What alerts and safety updates affect Sunny Isles Beach?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Sunny Isles Beach right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet FL-SUNNY-ISLES-BEACH · Sunny Isles Beach
Sunny Isles Beach: no area-tagged alerts on record. State hubs carry the live CAP stream.
- FEED-QUIET No tagged alerts
- LEAD-NONE Feed idle
- DESK-IDLE Awaiting feed
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Sunny Isles Beach; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Florida state hubs · Methodology
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Comparable cities by poverty or income, nationwide 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Sunny Isles Beach, both outside Florida so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside FL (14.3% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside FL ($61,921 here).
Compare Sunny Isles Beach with another city
Pick a second U.S. city to open a side-by-side profile on population, income, health, and hospitals, the same federal datasets as this page.
Cities Close By 8
Using Sunny Isles Beach's profile
Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.
- Check live recalls, weather and hazard alerts scoped to the Sunny Isles Beach area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
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- Compare Sunny Isles Beach against Florida peers on any ranking lens. Explore Florida
Place-level figures for population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) come from U.S. Census ACS; health data is CDC PLACES; hospital counts cover facilities in and around the city. Any county-level trend is labeled as such.
Data Sources
All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Miami-Dade County) where that is the smallest published unit.
Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-09-21.