Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in North Miami, FL

North Miami's roots reach back to 1856, when U.S. Army soldiers cut a military trail through the Arch Creek area connecting Fort Lauderdale to Fort Dallas at the mouth of the Miami River, and the community itself was settled around 1890.

North Miami was incorporated in February 1926 as the Town of Miami Shores, growing out of the older settlement of Arch Creek, and was renamed the Town of North Miami in 1931 to end confusion with another Miami Shores community about a mile to the south.

North Miami was reincorporated as a city on May 27, 1953, and celebrated its municipal centennial in February 2026.

North Miami had a population of 60,191 in the 2020 Census, with an estimated 60,884 residents in 2025, about 10 miles north of downtown Miami on Biscayne Bay.

North Miami has about 20,171 households averaging 2.91 people each, and only about 44% of its homes are owner-occupied - a renter-majority city - with a median owner-occupied home value of $365,000.

North Miami hosts Florida International University's Biscayne Bay Campus, the university's waterfront campus on the bay.

Oleta River State Park, in North Miami, is the largest urban state park in Florida, a mangrove-lined oasis of paddling and mountain-bike trails surrounded by city.

The Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA) began in 1981 as a single-gallery Center for Contemporary Art and moved in 1996 into a 23,000-square-foot building designed by acclaimed architect Charles Gwathmey, becoming MOCA in 1997; it was the first institution in Miami-Dade County to build a contemporary art collection.