One of the main Caribbean American communities in South Florida, Miramar is a residential suburb in southern Broward County, about 20 miles from Miami and 15 from Fort Lauderdale, with roughly 143,000 people. You hear Spanish, Haitian Creole and Jamaican Patois alongside English. It grew quickly from the 1990s onward on former Everglades edge land, so most of it is planned neighborhoods, lakes, gated communities and shopping strips.
Visitors do not come for sights. Miramar Regional Park and its amphitheater host concerts and fireworks, the Cultural Center has a steady arts calendar, and Sawgrass Mills mall is next door in Sunrise. Beaches at Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale are a short drive, and airboat rides in the Everglades are nearby. The tradeoffs are the usual South Florida ones. Housing has gotten expensive, insurance and HOA fees add up, and hurricane season, summer street flooding, and heavy heat are all part of the deal. Crime is moderate, mostly vehicle and package theft, and traffic on Pembroke Road and University Drive is rough.
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- Known as
- Fast-growing Broward County suburb; Caribbean-American hub of South Florida; Home of Miramar Regional Park and Amphitheater
- Founded
- 1955 founded (as a planned community near the Florida Turnpike area); 1955 incorporated as a town, later a city (1960s to 1990s growth)
- Languages
- English; Spanish; Haitian Creole; French; Portuguese; Jamaican Patois (Caribbean communities)
- Airports
- Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (FLL), about 15 miles east; Miami International (MIA), about 22 miles southeast; North Perry Airport (HWO), about 5 miles east, general aviation only
- Tipping
- restaurants 18-20%; bars $1-2 per drink; taxis and rideshare 15-20%; hotel housekeeping $3-5 per night; bellhops $2-5 per bag; counter service optional; delivery 15-20%
About this data
Population 142,570 (Census July 1, 2025 estimate), land area 28.85 sq mi, median value $462,700 and rent $2,117 are from Census QuickFacts fetched this pass. Metro figure 6,423,080 is the prescribed Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach MSA value, shared with Miami and Fort Lauderdale; Miramar is not the anchor city. Miramar has no dedicated tourism bureau found, so the city website is used as visitor_website. Elevation, coordinates, founding detail, event names and months, hotel ranges, tipping, cost-of-living index, crime rates, airport distances and listing prices are approximate or from general knowledge and not verified. Lower confidence: web fetch was limited to Census and search snippets. URLs came from search results and were not load-tested.
