Crime Scene & Biohazard Cleanup Near Downtown Surfside Surfside, FL

Surfside is a small beachside town in Miami-Dade County, Florida, covering just 0.56 square miles between Bal Harbour to the north and Miami Beach's North Beach neighborhood to the south.

Surfside was incorporated on May 18, 1935, when 35 members of the privately owned Surf Club, fearing annexation by the city of Miami Beach, formed the town and financed the venture with a $28,500 loan.

The town grew up around the Surf Club, built by Russell Pancoast at 90th Street and Collins Avenue in 1929-1930, after Henri Levy began developing the area in 1924.

Surfside had 5,689 residents in the 2020 census, slightly down from 5,744 in 2010.

The 2020 census counted 2,302 households in Surfside, while more than 37% of its 3,675 housing units stood vacant, reflecting its many seasonal condominium residences.

At 1:22 a.m. on June 24, 2021, Champlain Towers South, a 12-story condominium building at 8777 Collins Avenue, partially collapsed, killing 98 people in one of the deadliest structural failures in United States history.

In final findings released in June 2026, the National Institute of Standards and Technology concluded the collapse began weeks before June 24, 2021, when connections between garage columns and the pool deck failed.

Approximately one-third of Surfside's population is Jewish, around 2,500 people, making it the most Jewish community in the Miami metropolitan area.

Yiddish author Isaac Bashevis Singer lived in Surfside from 1977 until his death in 1991, and in 1979 the town renamed 95th Street as Isaac Bashevis Singer Boulevard in his honor.

Surfside's avenues are named for British and American authors and run in alphabetical order from east to west.