Zero, by booking evidence

The detection's core finding is a separation between where music is made and where it is played, and its method for the second half is booking evidence, not tax category: a venue is a venue when a calendar, a listing or a press guide shows shows. This map reproduces the count from its own data. Within 1.5 miles of the anchor there are 0 live music venues with booking evidence. The nearest stage of any kind is Julius Littman Performing Arts Theater, a city run theater 1.34 miles north in North Miami Beach, booked by the city and not a music venue. The nearest room with a music calendar is Luna Star Cafe on NE 125th Street, 1.97 miles away, with Jazz at MOCA across the street once a month; both are outside the ring. Inside it, the only place with any booking evidence is MusicTurista, a seven room rehearsal business across NE 149th Street from Criteria that hosts band nights in its bar; the map codes it as a room, because that is what it is. Three business tax receipts in the ring carry the promoter and events category: events businesses with no stage of their own. Against that, the same register puts 57 venues with booking evidence elsewhere in the county, from Little Haiti and Little River (the nearest cluster, six to seven miles south) through Wynwood, Downtown, Little Havana, Miami Beach, Coral Gables and Coconut Grove to Doral, Kendall and Homestead. On the Cities view they are teal pins at their true locations, and the ring reads as an empty circle against them.

This count is a floor on absence in the same sense the inventory is a floor on presence: a room the searches did not reach could exist. It is stated as a computed result of this dataset, not as a restatement of the detection, and it is the same result.

Why 1.5 miles. The ring is a repeatable proximity test, not a claim that culture stops at a line: it takes in the walkable and short drive production ring around Criteria, from the NE 146th to 149th Street block out to Bay Eight and SAE Institute on the north and Audio Vision on the south, while the venues just beyond it are kept on the map and measured separately. The table below reruns the count at other radii from the same data, so the boundary choice is visible.