Miami Mental Health Statistics

Key numbers

Adults: depression and mental distress

In the CDC’s PLACES estimates for 2023, 13.5% of Miami-Dade adults had ever been told by a doctor, nurse or other health professional that they have a depressive disorder (range 11.5% to 15.7%). That was the lowest estimate among Florida’s 67 counties, where the county figures run up to 20.8%.

A second measure does not depend on a diagnosis: 14.4% of Miami-Dade adults said their mental health, including stress, depression and problems with emotions, was not good on 14 or more of the past 30 days (range 12.6% to 16.3%). On this measure Miami-Dade is much closer to its neighbors.

Source: CDC PLACES, 2025 release, county estimates (crude prevalence). The Miami-Dade ranges above are 95% confidence intervals.

Access to care

Providers. County Health Rankings counts 6,688 mental health providers with a Miami-Dade address in the federal National Provider Identifier registry in 2025, or one for every 424 residents. That is slightly more providers per resident than Florida as a whole (one per 443) and fewer than the U.S. (one per 287).

Shortage designations. The federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) lists 19 designated mental health professional shortage areas in Miami-Dade. Of these, 10 are community health centers and 1 is a tribal health department, facilities that receive the designation automatically under federal rules, and 7 are prisons or detention centers. The remaining one covers people: Miami-Dade’s low-income population of 947,222, designated in 2023 and last updated September 5, 2025. HRSA’s ratio for this designation is 49,554 people per full-time provider, against a goal of 20,000 to one, and its shortage score is 15 on a scale that runs to 25.

Insurance. 17.8% of Miami-Dade adults aged 18 to 64, 311,961 people, had no health insurance in 2024 (Florida 15.5%). Our study How Many Miami-Dade Adults Have No Health Insurance? breaks this down by city and ZIP code.

Suicide deaths

From 2019 to 2023, 1,231 Miami-Dade residents died by suicide, about 246 a year. The age-adjusted rate was 8.3 deaths per 100,000 residents (range 7.8 to 8.8), compared with 14.0 for Florida and 14.0 for the U.S. It was the lowest rate among the 64 Florida counties with a published figure. Broward’s rate was 10.5 and Palm Beach’s 12.7.

Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, supplemental release of 25 March 2026, from National Center for Health Statistics mortality files.

Teens

In the 2024 Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey, 38.5% of Miami-Dade middle and high school students said they had felt depressed or sad on most days in the past year, down from 50.1% in 2022. 10.6% said they had seriously considered attempting suicide in the past 12 months (Florida 13.4%), and 24.6% said they had been bullied online. More in our study How Are Miami-Dade Teens Feeling?

New mothers

In 2020, 15.7% of Florida women with a recent live birth reported postpartum depressive symptoms (range 13.0% to 18.7%), compared with 13.4% across all the sites in CDC’s survey that year. This is a statewide figure; there is no published Miami-Dade estimate, and 2020 is the most recent year with a Florida figure in CDC’s indicator tables.

New parents can call or text the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline at 1-833-TLC-MAMA (1-833-852-6262), free and confidential, any time (HRSA). Our pages on signs of postpartum depression and postpartum therapy have more.

What this means if you are looking for help in Miami

• You are not alone. About one in seven Miami-Dade adults has been told they have depression, and a similar share say their mental health was not good on at least 14 of the past 30 days.
• A low number does not mean the need is small. The depression figure counts people who were told by a health professional, so it can also reflect who has seen a health professional. Miami-Dade has the most uninsured working-age adults of any Florida county, and its low-income residents are in a federal shortage area.
• Provider numbers are not the whole picture. If cost is the barrier, ask about self-pay rates and your right to a Good Faith Estimate, or look for a community health center, where what you pay depends on your income (HealthCare.gov). Our own rates are on our rates and insurance page.
• Parents and new parents have specific places to turn. See our teen therapy guide for parents and the maternal hotline above.
• In a crisis, call or text 988, any time. If someone is in immediate danger, call 911.

Method

• Each figure is taken as published, from the source named next to it. Our one calculation is the yearly average of suicide deaths (the five-year total divided by five).
• Adults: CDC PLACES county estimates, 2025 release, crude prevalence, modeled from the 2023 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
• Shortage areas: HRSA’s mental health HPSA detail file, designations with status “Designated” and a Miami-Dade county code, counted once per HPSA ID.
• Suicide deaths and providers: the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps supplemental data release of 25 March 2026 (suicides from National Center for Health Statistics mortality files, 2019–2023; providers from the CMS National Provider Identifier file, 2025).
• New mothers: CDC PRAMS Maternal and Child Health indicators, 2020. Florida does not appear in CDC’s indicator tables for later years, up to the 2022 release.
• Teen and insurance figures come from our two studies on this site, which explain their own methods. A separate check script re-reads the headline figures from other files or endpoints.

Limits

• PLACES figures are model-based estimates for the whole county, not counts.
• Provider counts come from a registry of addresses. They include providers who may not see patients, work part time or not take new clients, and they do not show languages spoken, insurance accepted or wait times.
• HRSA’s ratios for mental health shortage designations are based mainly on psychiatrists and, in some cases, other core mental health providers; they are not a count of all therapists.
• Suicide rates for a single county can change from year to year; the five-year figure smooths this.
• The new mothers figure is statewide and from 2020; it may not reflect Miami-Dade today.

Sources

• CDC PLACES: Local Data for Better Health, county data, 2025 release.
• HRSA, Health Professional Shortage Areas, mental health HPSA detail file from the HRSA data download page.
• County Health Rankings & Roadmaps data and documentation, supplemental release of 25 March 2026 and its codebook.
• CDC, PRAMS Maternal and Child Health indicators by site, 2020.
• U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Health Insurance Estimates and the Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey, as used in our two studies.
• All downloaded November 12, 2026.

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