Profile: City of Miami

Now 105 years old, Miami is part of the nation’s eleventh largest metropolitan area. Incorporated in 1896, Miami is the only municipality conceived and founded by a woman - Julia Tuttle. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Miami’s population in 1900 was 1,700 people. Today it is a city rich in cultural and ethnic diversity with 362,470 residents, 60% of them foreign born. In physical size the City is not large, encompassing only 34 square miles. In population, Miami is the largest of the 30 municipalities that make up Miami-Dade County.

The City currently employs approximately 3,700 full-time, permanent employees across a wide variety of occupations. It offers competitive salaries, benefits and a pension plan. Four labor unions represent approximately 85% of the City’s workforce.  

Its leadership has laid out a vision toward progress, set out a new course to change business as usual, to quash mediocrity and to raise expectations. The City is discarding the traditional ideas of government structure, replacing them with a private sector model designed to increase efficiency. A primary responsibility of the City is to make all of its neighborhoods better places to live. To that end, our city had its bond rating improved 4 separate times, saved over three million dollars in annual refinancing charges and issued $155 million in new bonds. The City of Miami ranks sixth among large US cities in total crime reduction - fifty percent over the last 9 years, and has reopened three major parks - Hadley, Virrick and Margaret Pace. On the drawing board are a series of initiatives designed to help our parks become centers of academic, artistic and athletic excellence.

Miami – the Magic City - rich in spirit and resolve, is not afraid to try new things, looking toward the future, and heading in the right direction.

Quick Look

Corporate Type:
Incorporated

Number of Employees:
Approximately 3,700

Year Founded:
1896

Primary Business:
Governmental Municipality

Miami is the nation’s eleventh largest metropolitan area.