THE MIAMI-DADE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Everglades setting.
Miami-Dade County has 1,900 square miles of land in Florida. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Miami-Dade County: Everglades, Miami Ridge/Atlantic Coastal Strip, Southern Coast and Islands, among others.
Very low-relief southern Florida terrain includes marsh, swamp, Everglades and palmetto-prairie settings. Small elevation differences can correspond to substantial changes in vegetation and water conditions.
Regional context: Southern Florida Coastal Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Miami-Dade County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Everglades60.5%
- Miami Ridge/Atlantic Coastal Strip31.7%
- Southern Coast and Islands6.8%
- Big Cypress1.1%
Finding your parcel within Miami-Dade County
The atlas lists 70 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Miami-Dade County, including Miami, Hialeah, Miami Gardens. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Miami-Dade County by land and water
The Census records 489.3 square miles of water within Miami-Dade County, or 20.5% of its total area. That share is close to Miami-Dade County’s 20.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Miami-Dade County has 736.7 times the land area of nearby Country Walk CDP (2.58 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Broward County, Collier County, Monroe County within Florida. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

