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Appearance move to sidebar hide Coordinates: 26°11′37″N 80°28′36″W / 26.193535°N 80.476683°W / 26.193535; -80.476683 From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Broward County
County
Images, from top down, left to right: Fort Lauderdale skyline; Tarpon River neighborhood; Dania Beach pier; FLA Live Arena; docked boats in Pompano Beach
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Location in Florida
Broward CountyLocation within the United States
Coordinates: 26°11′37″N 80°28′36″W / 26.193535°N 80.476683°W / 26.193535; -80.476683[1]
Country	United States
State	Florida
Metro area	Miami
Founded	April 30, 1915
Named for	Napoleon B. Broward
County seat	Fort Lauderdale
Largest city	Fort Lauderdale
Incorporated cities	24
Area
•Total	1,323sqmi (3,426km2)
•Land	1,203sqmi (3,116km2)
•Water	120sqmi (310km2)
Highestelevation[2]	29ft (9m)
Lowestelevation	0ft (0m)
Population(2020)[3]
•Total	1,944,375
•Rank	17th in the United States2nd in Florida
•Density	1,618/sqmi (625/km2)
Time zone	UTC−5 (Eastern Time Zone)
•Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Area codes	754, 954
FIPS code	12011
GNIS feature ID	295753
Primary airport	Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport (FLL)
Secondary airport	Miami International Airport (MIA) Palm Beach International Airport (PBI)
Interstates
U.S. Routes
State roads
Website	www.broward.org

Broward County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida. As of 2020, 1,944,375 people lived there.[3] This makes it the second most populated county in the state. Its county seat is Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Data

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Broward County is part of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to more than 6 million people at the 2020 census.[3]

In the U.S. Census of 2020 the Ethnic/Race Demographics were:

• White (non-Hispanic): 33.1%
• White including "White Hispanics": 39.9%
• Black (non-Hispanic): 26.6%
• Black including Black Hispanics: 27.4%
• Hispanic or Latino of any race: 31.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic): 3.8%
• American Indian and Alaska Native (non-Hispanic): 0.2%
• Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander: 0.0%
• Other Races (non-Hispanic): 1.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic): 3.8%

Broward county was created in 1915 and was named with the second surname name of the former Florida governor: Napoleon Bonaparte Broward. Since then it has had a great growth in the XX century, mainly as "retirement place" for old people from northeastern US and French Canada.[4]

Other websites

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Government links/Constitutional offices

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• Broward County Government / Board of County Commissioners
• Broward County Supervisor of Elections
• Broward County Property Appraiser
• Broward County Sheriff's Office

Special Districts

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• Broward County Public Schools
• Broward Health (formerly North Broward Hospital District)
• South Broward Hospital District(Memorial Healthcare System)
• South Florida Water Management District

Judicial branch

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• Broward County Clerk of Courts
• Broward County Public Defender Archived 2007-08-15 at the Wayback Machine
• Broward State Attorney's Office, 17th Judicial Circuit Archived 2004-11-11 at the Wayback Machine
• Circuit and County Court for the 17th Judicial Circuit of Florida

Tourism links

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• Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau

Notes

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1. ↑ "Wayback Machine". www2.census.gov. Retrieved 2025-04-11.
2. ↑ "Pine Island Ridge Natural Area". Archived from the original on 2018-07-10. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
3. 1 2 3 "P2: HISPANIC OR LATINO ORIGIN BY RACE - Census Bureau Table". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 14 June 2023.
4. ↑ History of Broward county

v t e Municipalities and communities of Broward County, Florida, United States
County seat: Fort Lauderdale
Cities	Coconut Creek Cooper City Coral Springs Dania Beach Deerfield Beach Fort Lauderdale Hallandale Beach Hollywood Lauderdale Lakes Lauderhill Lighthouse Point Margate Miramar North Lauderdale Oakland Park Parkland Pembroke Pines Plantation Pompano Beach Sunrise Tamarac West Park Weston Wilton Manors
Towns	Davie Hillsboro Beach Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Pembroke Park Southwest Ranches
Villages	Lazy Lake Sea Ranch Lakes
CDPs	Boulevard Gardens Broadview Park Franklin Park Hillsboro Pines Roosevelt Gardens Washington Park
Unincorporatedcommunity	Fern Crest Village Palm Aire
Indian reservations	Big Cypress Indian Reservation‡ Hollywood Seminole Indian Reservation Miccosukee Indian Reservation‡
Ghost towns	Andytown Hacienda Village
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

v t e Miami metropolitan area
Population: 6,012,331 (2015)
Counties	Miami-Dade Broward Palm Beach
Major city441k	Miami
Cities and towns100k–250k	Coral Springs Fort Lauderdale Hialeah Hollywood Miami Gardens Miramar Pembroke Pines Pompano Beach West Palm Beach
Cities and towns25k–99k	Aventura Boca Raton Boynton Beach Coconut Creek Cooper City Coral Gables Cutler Bay Dania Beach Davie Deerfield Beach Delray Beach Doral Greenacres Hallandale Beach Homestead Jupiter Lake Worth Lauderdale Lakes Lauderhill Margate Miami Beach North Lauderdale North Miami North Miami Beach Oakland Park Palm Beach Gardens Plantation Riviera Beach Sunrise Tamarac West Park Weston Wilton Manors
Cities and towns10k–25k	Belle Glade Hialeah Gardens Lighthouse Point Miami Lakes Miami Springs Opa-locka Palm Beach Parkland South Miami Sunny Isles Beach Sweetwater Palm Springs

v t e State of Florida
Tallahassee (capital)
Topics	Education Environment Floridians Geography Government History State Parks Transportation
Regions	Big Bend Central Florida Emerald Coast First Coast Florida Heartland Florida Keys Florida Panhandle Forgotten Coast Gold Coast Nature Coast North Central Florida South Florida Southwest Florida Space Coast Sun Coast Tampa Bay Area Treasure Coast
Largest cities	Jacksonville Miami Tampa St. Petersburg Orlando Hialeah Fort Lauderdale Tallahassee Cape Coral Pembroke Pines Hollywood Port St. Lucie Coral Springs Gainesville Miramar Clearwater Pompano Beach Miami Gardens West Palm Beach Palm Bay Sunrise Lakeland Miami Beach Boca Raton Plantation
Counties	Alachua Baker Bay Bradford Brevard Broward Calhoun Charlotte Citrus Clay Collier Columbia DeSoto Dixie Duval Escambia Flagler Franklin Gadsden Gilchrist Glades Gulf Hamilton Hardee Hendry Hernando Highlands Hillsborough Holmes Indian River Jackson Jefferson Lafayette Lake Lee Leon Levy Liberty Madison Manatee Marion Martin Miami‑Dade Monroe Nassau Okaloosa Okeechobee Orange Osceola Palm Beach Pasco Pinellas Polk Putnam Santa Rosa Sarasota Seminole St. Johns St. Lucie Sumter Suwannee Taylor Union Volusia Wakulla Walton Washington

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