Hialeah Epoxy Flooring, by the Numbers

Last reviewed 2026-07-25. Journalists, researchers, and community groups are welcome to cite any figure on this page with attribution and a link.

Floor coating decisions in Hialeah get better when the folklore is swapped for figures, so this page collects the verifiable ones. The population and housing numbers below come from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The rainfall and temperature normals come from NOAA's 1991-2020 climate normals for the weather station in Hialeah itself, not a generic Florida average. The hurricane season facts come from the National Hurricane Center, the permitting context from the City of Hialeah Building Department, and the employment figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Together they document the working reality behind every page on this site: a dense, humid, hard-working city built at ground level on wet land, where moisture management is not a sales angle but the local physics. Sources are linked in full at the bottom.

A Dense City Standing Entirely on Slabs

Census QuickFacts counts 223,109 Hialeah residents at the 2020 Census, estimates 230,968 as of July 2025, and measures the city at 21.58 square miles of land, which works out to 10,338.2 people per square mile in 2020, density in the range of America's most tightly packed large cities and among the highest in Florida. The American Community Survey profile counts roughly 81,348 housing units across the city, and QuickFacts reports 77,044 households averaging 2.91 persons each for 2020-2024. Every one of those homes stands on slab-on-grade concrete, there being no basements in this part of Florida, which is why so much of this site returns to the condition of the ground those slabs rest on.

Two more QuickFacts figures describe who the work serves. The owner-occupancy rate runs 46.6 percent for 2020-2024, meaning rental housing carries an unusually large share of the city and landlords are steady customers for durable, turnover-resistant floors. And 92.6 percent of residents age 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, with 74.5 percent of residents born outside the United States, numbers that explain a practical habit of this market: quotes, schedules, and care instructions get discussed in English or Spanish, tracking whatever language the household or business runs on, without anyone finding that remarkable.

What the Rain Gauge Says About Coating Concrete Here

NOAA's 1991-2020 climate normals for the Hialeah station read like a floor installer's calendar. Monthly precipitation normals total about 72.9 inches for the year, and the distribution is the story: June normals 11.45 inches and September 11.53, while December through February each stay under 3 inches. Summing the normals, the six months from May through October account for roughly 55.2 inches, 75.7 percent of the annual total, while November through April delivers about 17.7 inches combined. That is the statistical skeleton of the local wet season, and it is why exterior coating work here gravitates to the November through April window while interior work runs year-round under air conditioning.

The temperature normals carry their own instructions. Normal daily highs at the Hialeah station run from 75.7 degrees in January to 90.1 in August, with June through September all cresting 88, and normal lows through those summer months holding in the mid-70s, which keeps overnight humidity high and dew points close to slab temperatures. For coating chemistry, that means compressed working times in summer heat, cure schedules quoted for the actual season, and dew-point margins checked before every coat. Even the mild months earn attention: a January morning at a normal low of 59.1 degrees is comfortable for cure chemistry, and it is precisely why the dry season carries the exterior calendar.

Hurricane Season Is a Scheduling Input, Not a Footnote

The National Hurricane Center's climatology page states the frame plainly: the Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30, its climatological peak lands on September 10, and most activity occurs between mid-August and mid-October. Over the 1991-2020 baseline, an average season produces 14 named storms, of which 7 become hurricanes and 3 reach major hurricane strength. None of that predicts any single year in Hialeah, but it defines the risk window that overlaps almost exactly with the wet season's heaviest months, June and September being the two double-digit rainfall normals on the local gauge.

For floor work, the season translates into standing rules rather than drama. Exterior systems do not start against an approaching storm. Materials and equipment staging accounts for the possibility of sudden heavy water even from unnamed systems, which the June and September rainfall normals make a base-case assumption rather than bad luck. And after any event that floods a slab, the coating conversation resets to drying time and fresh moisture readings before schedules resume. The season costs some calendar flexibility every year. Planning around it is what keeps a floor installed in one season from becoming a warranty case in the next.

Code, Permits, and the Industrial Base Behind the Demand

The City of Hialeah Building Department describes its role as administering and enforcing the Florida Building Code and Miami-Dade County regulations, reviewing permits, conducting required inspections, issuing occupancy certificates, and managing building recertifications and flood certificates. For flooring customers the practical reading is simple: coating a slab is finish work, but projects that grow beyond the slab surface, plumbing moves, structural cuts, work inside larger permitted remodels, can trigger permitting, and the department is the authority worth consulting before assumptions harden. Its enforcement of the county's regulations is also a reminder that South Florida construction standards run stricter than most of the country, a culture this trade shares.

The commercial demand behind this site's industrial pages shows up in federal employment data. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics counts, for the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metro area as of June 2026, roughly 2,961,300 total nonfarm jobs, including 101,500 in manufacturing and 649,800 in trade, transportation, and utilities, the two categories that live on warehouse and plant floors. Hialeah's rail-corridor industrial blocks hold a dense share of that activity, and the floors underneath it, many poured in the mid-century buildout, generate the repair-and-coat programs described throughout this site.

Sources & Methodology

Every figure above was taken from the primary sources below (accessed 2026-07-25). Where a number is derived (arithmetic on published figures) or covers a broader period or area, the text says so.

1. U.S. Census Bureau, QuickFacts: Hialeah city, Florida
2. NOAA NCEI, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, Hialeah station USC00083909
3. NOAA National Hurricane Center, Tropical Cyclone Climatology
4. City of Hialeah, Building Department
5. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Economy at a Glance: Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
6. Census Reporter, ACS profile: Hialeah, FL