Miramar Florida is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. It was named after the Miramar district of Havana, Cuba. As of 2007, the population estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau is 108,240. It is part of the South Florida metropolitan area, which is home to 5,463,857 people. And its motto is “Beauty and Progress,” updated from the earlier-used “The Center of Everything”
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 31.0 square miles (80 km2). 29.5 square miles (76 km2) of it is land and 1.5 square miles (4 km2) of it (4.84%) is water.
Miramar loosely translates from Spanish as “sea view” or “sea sight,” though it is not located directly on the Atlantic Ocean. The city is bordered by the following municipalities:
There were 23,058 households out of which 48.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.0% were married couples living together, 19.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 19.1% were non-families. 14.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 3.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.15 and the average family size was 3.48. As of 2000, Miramar had the fifth highest percentage of Jamaican residents in the US, with 15.4% of the populace. The fifty-eighth highest percentage of Colombian residents in the US, at 2.51% of the city’s population, and the forty-eighth highest percentage of Cuban residents in the US, at 8.77% of the city’s population. It also had the seventy-eighth most Dominicans in the US, at 1.98%, while it had the thirty-first highest percentage of Haitians (tied with West Little River,) at 6% of all residents. Miramar’s Trinidad and Tobago community had the twelfth highest percentage of residents, which was at 1.2% (tying with Wheatley Heights, New York and Neptune City, New Jersey.)
Miramar is served by Broward County Public Schools. Its has 12 elementary schools, 3 public middle schools, 2 public high schools, 2 private schools, and 3 college and universities.
Miramar is a part of the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood media market, which is the twelfth largest radio market and the seventeenth largest television market in the United States. Its primary daily newspapers are the South Florida-Sun Sentinel and The Miami Herald, and their Spanish-language counterparts El Sentinel and El Nuevo Herald. WTVJ, the Miami area’s NBC owned and operated station and WSCV, the Telemundo station also owned by NBC shares their studios and administrative offices in Miramar.