{"id":223473,"date":"2026-04-08T14:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223473\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:46:10","slug":"everyone-is-moving-out-of-miami-dade-county-basically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223473\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Is Moving Out of Miami-Dade County, Basically"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMiami-Dade County residents are sick and tired of the rising living costs and traffic.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Photo by David Gales\/Adobe Stock<\/a><\/p>\n

While billionaires are migrating to South Florida<\/a> in droves to flee tax legislation on the West Coast targeting the ultra-rich, it appears others are doing quite the opposite.<\/p>\n

In 2025, Miami-Dade experienced the third-largest population decline among U.S. counties, trailing only Pinellas and Los Angeles counties, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data<\/a>. Between July 2024 and July 2025, the population fell by 10,115 people, from 2,812,144 to 2,802,029. Miami-Dade is still the seventh-largest county in the U.S. and the largest in Florida.<\/p>\n

The census data reveals that Miami-Dade County\u2019s population is shrinking<\/a> largely due to a decline in international migration \u2014 at a time when President Donald Trump is aggressively cracking down on illegal immigration and legal immigration pathways<\/a>. Overall, the Census Bureau found that population growth slowed in most of the nation\u2019s 3,143 counties and in Washington, D.C., from July 2024 to July 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe nation\u2019s largest counties like those in the New York metro area are often international migration hubs, gaining a large number of international migrants and losing people that move to other parts of the country via domestic migration,\u201d George Hayward, a Census demographer, said in a press release. \u201cWith fewer gains from international migration, these types of countries saw their population growth diminish or even turn into loss.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once again, Miami-Dade County saw the highest net domestic migration<\/a> of all Florida counties, meaning more people left Miami-Dade than moved in between July 2024 and July 2025. More than 72,000 people moved out of Miami-Dade, according to the data. Perhaps residents have had enough of the traffic, affordability issues, and the lack of public transit.<\/p>\n

Former Miami Mayor Francis Suarez\u2019s famous \u201cHow can I help?\u201d <\/a>tweet from 2020 only helped seemingly recruit the crypto bros, the rich, and the tech world to Miami-Dade, rather than the average person. As people flee Miami-Dade County, several billionaires have either snatched up property or relocated their businesses here. The newcomers include Palantir CEO Alex Karp<\/a>, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz<\/a>, and Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. <\/p>\n

Top U.S. Counties by Numeric Decline: <\/p>\n

Los Angeles County, California: -53,934
\nPinellas County, Florida: -11,834
\nMiami-Dade County, Florida: -10,115
\nQueens County, New York: -8, 852
\nOrange County, California: -8,520
\nSan Diego County, California: -5,294
\nShelby County, Tennessee: -5,212
\nKings County, New York: -4,694
\nDallas County, Texas: -2,616
\nVentura County, California; Bernalillo County, New Mexico: -2,580<\/p>\n

Florida Domestic Migration:<\/p>\n

Miami-Dade County: -72,254
\nBroward County: -29,517
\nOrange County: -20,271
\nHillsborough County: -15,620
\nPalm Beach County: -11,953
\nPinellas County: -9,203
\nCollier County: -2,337
\nMonroe County: -1,931
\nLeon County: -1,279
\nSeminole County: -1,016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade County residents are sick and tired of the rising living costs and traffic. Photo by David Gales\/Adobe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1841,123,125,124,2908,480,8841],"class_list":{"0":"post-223473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-immigration","9":"tag-miami","10":"tag-miami-headlines","11":"tag-miami-news","12":"tag-national-spotlight","13":"tag-real-estate","14":"tag-the-rich"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}