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Every Miami condo building scored from 0 to 100 by how close it sits to a Metromover, Metrorail, Brightline or Tri-Rail station. A practical index for anyone who would rather leave the car at home.

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50
Neighborhoods
3
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803
every tracked condo tower
Updated
Oct 23, 2026

Miami has more rail than its traffic suggests. The Metromover loops through Downtown, Brickell and up to the Arsht Center for free; Metrorail runs from Dadeland through the Grove, Brickell and Government Center to the airport and Hialeah; Brightline leaves MiamiCentral for Aventura, Fort Lauderdale and beyond; and Tri-Rail connects the county to Broward and Palm Beach. Whether any of that matters day to day depends almost entirely on one number: how far the building is from the nearest platform.

The Car-Free Index puts that number on every published condo building on own.miami. Each building gets a score from 0 to 100: mostly distance to the nearest station, partly how many stations sit within 1.5 km, and a small bonus when more than one rail system is in reach. Buildings are ranked citywide and inside their own neighborhood, so a tower in Edgewater is compared with its neighbours before it is compared with Brickell.

One honest caveat: the distances are straight lines, not walking routes. A building across the river from a station can be close on the map and a longer walk in practice, which is why we show distance and never a walking time. The score says how close the train is, not how often it comes.

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Neighborhoods with the most rail stations

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#Neighborhoodrail stations
1Downtown31 buildings ranked26
2Brickell89 buildings ranked26
3Coconut Grove53 buildings ranked3
4Edgewater43 buildings ranked19
5Aventura89 buildings ranked1
6Midtown16 buildings ranked11
7Sunny Isles Beach85 buildings ranked1
8Fisher Island0
9South Beach0
10Bal Harbour & Surfside0
11Key Biscayne0
11Mid-Beach & North Beach0

Distances are straight-line, not walking or driving.

Best condos

Top-scoring condo buildings for Car-Free Index

All 803 ranked buildings
  1. 1
    Brickell on the River South
    Brickell · 41 SE 5th St
    98/ 100nearest <0.1 mi20 within 1 mi#1 in Brickell

    Closer to the train than to most parking spots.

  2. 2
    Loft Downtown II
    Downtown · 133 NE 2nd Ave
    98/ 100nearest <0.1 mi23 within 1 mi#1 in Downtown

    Elevator, crosswalk, platform. Done.

  3. 3
    Brickell Flatiron
    Brickell · 1000 Brickell Plz
    97/ 100nearest <0.1 mi14 within 1 mi#2 in Brickell

    You can hear the doors chime from the driveway.

  4. 4
    Marina Blue
    Downtown · 888 Biscayne Blvd
    97/ 100nearest <0.1 mi19 within 1 mi#2 in Downtown

    You can hear the doors chime from the driveway.

  5. 5
    501 First Residences
    Downtown · 121 NE 5th St
    97/ 100nearest <0.1 mi20 within 1 mi#3 in Downtown

    Elevator, crosswalk, platform. Done.

  6. 6
    1010 Brickell
    Brickell · 1010 Brickell Ave
    97/ 100nearest <0.1 mi14 within 1 mi#3 in Brickell

    Closer to the train than to most parking spots.

  7. 7
    Ten Museum Park
    Downtown · 1040 Biscayne Blvd
    96/ 100nearest <0.1 mi18 within 1 mi#4 in Downtown

    The platform is practically your lobby.

  8. 8
    MyBrickell
    Brickell · 31 SE 6th St
    96/ 100nearest <0.1 mi20 within 1 mi#4 in Brickell

    Closer to the train than to most parking spots.

  9. 9
    Axis on Brickell
    Brickell · 79 SW 12th St
    95/ 100nearest <0.1 mi13 within 1 mi#5 in Brickell

    Closer to the train than to most parking spots.

  10. 10
    Marquis
    Downtown · 1100 Biscayne Blvd
    95/ 100nearest <0.1 mi18 within 1 mi#5 in Downtown

    The platform is practically your lobby.

Distances are straight-line, not walking or driving.

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How this is computed

The Car-Free Index measures how close a condo building sits to rail transit: Metromover, Metrorail, Brightline and Tri-Rail. Scores run from 0 to 100. A high score means the train is a realistic part of daily life from that address; a low score means the car stays.

How the score is built. 70% of the score is proximity to the nearest station. The credit halves every 800 metres (about half a mile): a building 100 metres from a platform keeps about 92% of it, 800 metres keeps 50%, 1.6 km keeps 25% and 3 km keeps under 10%. There is no plateau, so every extra metre costs a little and two buildings at different distances never share a score. 20% is density: how many stations sit within 1.5 km, on a soft curve that keeps rewarding more stations without ever capping. The last 10% is variety: how many different rail systems (Metromover, Metrorail, Brightline, Tri-Rail) have a station within 1.5 km, with full credit at two.

What we measure. All distances are straight lines ("as the crow flies") from the building's coordinates to the station. They are not walking routes: a river, a highway or a long block can make the real walk longer, so we never turn them into walking times. Frequency, operating hours, fares, elevators and station access are not part of the score. Where two systems share one station (Government Center, MiamiCentral, the Tri-Rail and Metrorail Transfer) the station counts once.

Sources. Metromover and Metrorail stations, names and coordinates come from Miami-Dade County open data (the county's Metromover Station and Metrorail Station layers, provided by the county "as is", without a guarantee of accuracy). Tri-Rail stations in Miami-Dade come from the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority's station pages on tri-rail.com, and Brightline stations from Brightline's official station pages; their coordinates were placed by hand at each station. The list is refreshed by hand when a station opens or closes.

own.miami is an independent condo site and is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Miami-Dade County, the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority or Brightline. Brightline, Tri-Rail, Metrorail and Metromover are the names of the services this index measures distance to.

Distances are straight-line, not walking or driving.

Frequently asked questions

What is Car-Free Index?+

Car-Free Index on Own Miami is a map of 50 rail stations across 3 Miami neighborhoods, aggregated onto every tracked condo building: nearest distance, counts within one mile and neighborhood ranks.

Which condo building is closest?+

Brickell on the River South currently ranks first, with the nearest station <0.1 mi away.