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Based on US Census data for Miami
39.7 y/o
Median Age
Compared to the US median age of 38.7 y/o
$59.4K
Median Income
Compared to the US median income of $78.5K
$475.2K
Median Home Value
Compared to the US median home value of $303.4K
446.7K
Miami Population
Compared to the US median city population of 171.9K
Miami is the primary city of the 786 area code, an overlay covering the same Miami-Dade footprint long served by the 305. The 786 designation has been filling with allocations since the late 1990s, when South Florida's number demand pushed past what 305 alone could carry. Miami itself sits on Biscayne Bay, with the Everglades to the west and the Atlantic to the east, and the city's working economy reflects a substantial concentration of international finance, trade with Latin America and the Caribbean, tourism, and healthcare. The 786 footprint takes in Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, the Florida Keys, and the surrounding cities of Miami-Dade County.
In the directory's records linked to 786 numbers, other Florida cities — Cape Coral, Deltona, Fort Lauderdale, Gainesville, and others — appear regularly. None of those are inside the 786 footprint. Their appearance reflects standard public-record dynamics across Florida. The directory currently documents 624 distinct prefixes within 786 in detail, a working subset of the prefixes the code actually carries.
Miami's home values run notably above the US median, in line with broader South Florida pricing pressure. Median household income comes in below the national figure within the city limits, shaped by an unusually wide income distribution and a substantial low-wage service workforce alongside the high-wage finance sector. The city's median age sits a few years above the US reading, and population places Miami among the larger US cities, anchoring a metropolitan area many times its city-level size.

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