49-617: Dania Beach ( Dania until 1998) is a city in Broward County, Florida , United States. It is part of the Miami metropolitan area . As of the 2020 census , the city's population was 31,723. Dania Beach is the location of one of the largest jai alai frontons in the United States, The Casino @ Dania Beach (Dania Jai Alai) . It was formerly the location for two amusement centers ; one named Boomers! (formerly Grand Prix Race-O-Rama), which housed
98-564: A Democratic stronghold since 1992 , voting for the Party's presidential nominee in every election since then. It is now considered one of the most reliably Democratic counties in the state, giving greater than 60% support to the party nominee in every election since 1996 until 2024 . From 1948 to 1988 , the county leaned Republican , voting for the Republican nominee in every election except 1976 , even supporting Republican Barry Goldwater by
147-459: A tropical climate , similar to the climate found in much of the Caribbean . It is part of the only region in the 48 contiguous states that falls under that category. More specifically, it generally has a tropical rainforest climate ( Köppen climate classification : Af ), bordering a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen climate classification: Am ) The previous is incorrect. Dania Beach, Florida has
196-526: A 56-44 margin while he lost the national election in a landslide. Unlike Miami-Dade County to the south, where many of the immigrants are Republican-leaning Cuban-Americans, Cubans comprise only a small proportion of the immigrant population in Broward County. In 2024, Donald Trump was the first Republican to get over 40% of the vote since 1988. According to the Secretary of State's office, Democrats maintain
245-545: A given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year. In many countries, per capita income is determined using regular population surveys, such as the American Community Survey . This allows the calculation of per capita income for both the country as a whole and specific regions or demographic groups. However, comparing per capita income across different countries is often difficult, since methodologies, definitions and data quality can vary greatly. Since
294-518: A household in the city was $ 34,125, and for a family was $ 37,405. Males had a median income of $ 35,081 versus $ 26,535 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 20,795. About 14.6% of families and 18.3% of the population were below the poverty line , including 31.6% of those under age 18 and 16.0% of those age 65 or over. As of 2000, English as a first language was spoken by 76.85%, while Spanish accounted for 12.38%, French at 4.88%, French Creole at 1.94%, Italian at 1.36%, and Arabic
343-487: A huge development boom after its incorporation, with the first "tourist hotel", in Fort Lauderdale , opening in 1919. A year later, developers began dredging wetlands in the county to create island communities. By 1925, the boom was considered to have reached its peak, but the 1926 Miami hurricane caused economic depression in the county. The county saw another population and development boom post - World War II when
392-401: A plurality among registered voters in Broward County. The county is also one of the few counties in the state where Independents outnumber Republicans. Broward's code of ordinances consists of resolutions, administrative rules and regulations passed in order to secure a responsive and efficient form of local government. The county maintains a distinctive rule regarding communication between
441-568: A subtropical monsoon climate. As of the 2020 United States census , there were 31,723 people, 12,234 households, and 7,560 families residing in the city. As of the 2010 United States census , there were 29,639 people, 12,749 households, and 7,578 families residing in the city. In 2000, 21.4% had children under 18 living with them, 34.9% were married couples living together, 14.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 46.0% were not families. About 35.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.8% had someone living alone who
490-441: Is a popular destination for scuba diving, snorkeling, and droves of young Spring break tourists from around the world. Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport serves as the primary airport of the Broward County area. The airport is bounded by the cities Fort Lauderdale , Hollywood and Dania Beach , three miles (4.8 km) southwest of downtown Fort Lauderdale and 21 mi (34 km) north of Miami. The airport
539-449: Is also one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the entire country. As of 2022, Broward County has a gross domestic product of $ 124.8 billion, the second-largest GDP of Florida's 67 counties and the 25th-largest for the nation's 3,033 counties. The earliest evidence of Native American settlement in the Miami region came from about 12,000 years ago. The first inhabitants settled on
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#1732851988550588-512: Is composed of Oolite limestone while western Broward is composed mostly of Bryozoa . Broward is among the last areas of Florida to be created and populated with fauna and flora, mostly in the Pleistocene . Of developable land in Broward County, approximately 471 square miles (1,219.9 km ), the majority is built upon, as the urban area is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and
637-420: Is near cruise line terminals at Port Everglades and is popular among tourists bound for the Caribbean . Since the late 1990s, FLL has become an intercontinental gateway, although Miami International Airport still handles most long-haul flights. FLL is ranked as the 19th busiest airport (in terms of passenger traffic) in the United States, as well as the nation's 14th busiest international air gateway and one of
686-489: Is registering to participate. In addition to the many resources offered at the library, bus passes are also sold at most Broward County libraries. If you want to enjoy some of these resources, you can simply download the app to utilize them on the go. There are nine apps available for download: Broward County Library (BCL WoW), Freegal Music, Hoopla, Overdrive, Libby, Axis 360, RBdigital Magazines, Rosetta Stone, and Brainfuse. Additionally, with 23 miles of beach, Broward County
735-572: Is served by the Fort Lauderdale Airport station on the Tri-Rail . It is also served by several Broward County Transit buses. Broward County, Florida Broward County ( / ˈ b r aʊ . ər d / BROURD , BROW -(w)ərd ) is a county in Florida , United States, located in the Miami metropolitan area . It is Florida's second-most populous county after Miami-Dade County and
784-469: Is underway on a network of recreational trails to connect cities and points of interest in the county. Municipality populations are based on the 2020 US Census using their QuickFacts with 5,000 residents and above, while municipalities under 5,000 people are based on their US Decennial Census. In the 1980s, the Broward County Commission adopted a policy of having all populated places in
833-464: The 17th-most populous in the United States , with 1,944,375 residents as of the 2020 census . Its county seat and most populous city is Fort Lauderdale , which had a population of 182,760 as of 2020. The county is part of the South Florida region of the state. Broward County is one of the three counties that make up the Miami metropolitan area , which is home to 6.14 million people as of 2020. It
882-605: The Dania Beach Hurricane roller coaster , and the other being Pirates World amusement park, which was featured in Barry Mahon 's Thumbelina . It is also home to the International Game Fish Association Hall of Fame and Museum. The area was started as a neighborhood called Modello in the late 19th century. In November 1904, the area was incorporated as the " Town of Dania ", because most of
931-486: The U.S. Census Bureau , the county has an area of 1,323 square miles (3,430 km ), of which 1,210 square miles (3,100 km ) is land and 113 square miles (290 km ) (8.5%) is water. Broward County has an average elevation of six feet (1.8 m) above sea level. It is rather new geologically and at the eastern edge of the Florida Platform , a carbonate plateau created millions of years ago. Broward County
980-448: The " City of Dania " formally changed its name to " City of Dania Beach ". The name " Dania " is still commonly used to refer to the city. In 2001, the city annexed several unincorporated areas of Broward County, increasing its population by about 3,600 people. Formerly known as the "Tomato Capital of the World", once the city went from a farming settlement to an urban city, it soon took on
1029-447: The 1990s, the OECD has conducted regular surveys among its 38 member countries using a standardized methodology and set of questions. Per capita income is often used to measure a sector's average income and compare the wealth of different populations. Per capita income is also often used to measure a country's standard of living . When used to compare income levels of different countries, it
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#17328519885501078-563: The 35 residents were farmers of Danish ancestry . On January 4, 1926, Dania voted to annex itself to the City of Hollywood . After the September 1926 Miami hurricane decimated Hollywood's fortunes, most of Dania seceded from the City of Hollywood and reincorporated as a city. The areas that chose to remain part of the City of Hollywood caused Dania's current noncontinuous city boundaries. In November 1998,
1127-635: The Broward County Library system: Ethel M. Gordon Oakland Park Library, Lighthouse Point Library, Helen B. Hoffman Plantation Library, Richard C. Sullivan Public Library of Wilton Manors, and Parkland Public Library. Broward County libraries provide endless amount of resources to the public. For high-schoolers looking to prepare themselves for college, the library offers college readiness & SAT/ACT prep courses . For adults looking to learn computer skills, adult computer classes are also offered. These resources are free of cost, therefore, all it takes
1176-546: The Everglades Wildlife Management Area to the west. Within developable land, Broward County has a population density of 3,740 per square mile (1,444 per square kilometer). Broward approved the construction of Osborne Reef , an artificial reef made of tires off the Fort Lauderdale beach, but it has proven to be an environmental disaster. The Broward County Charter provides for a separation between
1225-423: The airline operated out of Miramar for 24 years, since December 1999. When Chalk's International Airlines existed, its headquarters was on the grounds of the airport in an unincorporated area. When Bimini Island Air existed, its headquarters were in an unincorporated area. By far the largest agricultural sector is nurseries , greenhouses , floricultures , and sod . This supplies ornamental uses in
1274-463: The area. Broward County Schools , the sole school district in the county, has the sixth largest school district in the country and the second largest in the state after the Miami-Dade district . The Broward County Library is one of the largest public library systems in the country, comprising 38 branch locations. There are also five municipal public libraries in the county that are not part of
1323-562: The banks of the Miami River , with the main villages on the northern banks. The inhabitants at the time of first European contact were the Tequesta people, who controlled much of southeastern Florida, including what is now Miami-Dade County , Broward County, and the southern part of Palm Beach County . The Tequesta Indians fished, hunted, and gathered the fruit and roots of plants for food, but did not practice any form of agriculture. They buried
1372-543: The city has a total area of 8.3 sq mi (21.6 km), of which 0.27 sq mi (0.7 km) (3.04%) is covered by water. Dania Beach's boundaries are Fort Lauderdale to the north, Hollywood to the south, Hollywood and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and Davie along with the Hollywood Seminole Indian Reservation to the west of the city. Dania Beach is adjacent to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport . Dania Beach has
1421-574: The city. Both Carnival Air Lines and Gulfstream International Airlines were formerly headquartered in Dania Beach. Dania Beach's public schools are operated by the Broward County Public Schools . Its public elementary schools include Collins Elementary School and Dania Elementary School. Olsen Middle School is a local public middle school , and South Broward High School serves the area from neighboring Hollywood, Florida . During
1470-715: The county and bidders for county contracts , known as the Cone of Silence . This rule prevents staff involved in a purchasing process from communicating with bidders from the time when the solicitation is issued, and County Commissioners from the time when bids are opened, until the vote to award the contract or the time when all bids are rejected. Silver Airways has its headquarters on the property of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in an unincorporated area . Other companies with headquarters in unincorporated areas include Locair . Spirit Airlines relocated its headquarters to Dania Beach on April 18, 2024. Prior to that,
1519-469: The county and leaving many residents homeless. In the year 2000, the US census reported a total population of 1,623,018. The town of South West Ranches was incorporated this year. On March 1, 2005, West Park became Broward County's 31st municipality to be incorporated. On October 24, 2005, Hurricane Wilma hit South Florida leaving the entire area damaged and causing almost universal power outages. Wilma
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1568-640: The county be part of a municipality. Municipalities were often reluctant to annex neighborhoods which were not projected to yield enough tax revenue to cover the costs of providing services to those neighborhoods. In 2001 the Broward County Legislative Delegation adopted a policy encouraging the annexation of all unincorporated areas in Broward County into municipalities by October 1, 2005. Formerly unincorporated neighborhoods that have been annexed into existing municipalities or combined to form new municipalities as of 2018 include: By late in
1617-778: The county's official representative. The Commission appoints the County Administrator, County Attorney and County Auditor. The commission also appoints numerous advisory and regulatory boards. The County Commission meets in formal session the first four Tuesdays of each month at 10:00 a.m. in Room 422 of the Broward County Governmental Center. Over 507,000 cable subscribers in Broward County have access to Government-access television (GATV) coverage of Commission meetings, which are broadcast live beginning at 10:00 a.m. each Tuesday, and rebroadcast at 5:30 p.m.
1666-406: The developed part of the county that are not in municipalities include the Hollywood Seminole Indian Reservation , Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport , several landfills and resource recovery facilities, and other scattered small parcels with few or no residents. Per capita income Per capita income ( PCI ) or average income measures the average income earned per person in
1715-566: The first decade of the 21st century, annexation of remaining neighborhoods had stalled. As of 2018 the Broward County Municipal Services District serves seven unincorporated neighborhoods, including six census designated places ( Boulevard Gardens , Broadview Park , Franklin Park , Hillsboro Pines , Roosevelt Gardens and Washington Park ) and a parcel with a population of 72 in 2018, Hillsboro Ranches . Other areas in
1764-514: The following Friday. Meetings can also be viewed via webcasting at www.broward.org. The Broward County Sheriff's Office (BSO) has 5,400 employees, and is the largest sheriff's department in Florida. The BSO was founded in 1915. Sheriff Gregory Tony has been the Sheriff heading the agency since 2019, when he replaced Sheriff Scott Israel , who had been Sheriff since 2013. Broward County has been
1813-475: The legislative and administrative functions of government. The Board of County Commissioners is the legislative branch of Broward County Government. The County Commission is composed of nine members elected by district. Commissioners must be a resident of the district where they seek election. Each year the Commission elects a mayor and vice mayor . The mayor's functions include serving as presiding officer, and as
1862-520: The name "Antique Capital of the South", due to many antique shops in downtown Dania Beach, especially along Federal Highway , known as the city's "Antique Row". The approximate coordinates for the City of Dania Beach is located at 26°03′18″N 80°09′11″W / 26.054916°N 80.153119°W / 26.054916; -80.153119 . According to the United States Census Bureau ,
1911-470: The population to a total of 620,100 in 1970 . The structure of the Broward County government was signed into law in 1975 with the passage of the Broward County charter. In the same year, the Seminole Tribe of Florida incorporated as a governing entity and began organizing cigarette sales, bingo and land leases that will bring millions of dollars in annual revenue in later years. In 1976, Interstate 95
1960-587: The segregation period, the first school for Black students met in the St. Ruth Missionary Baptist Church . Dania Beach is a part of the Miami -Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood media market, which is the 12th-largest radio market and the 17th 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 . Dania Beach
2009-618: The shooting, Nikolas Cruz , was held at the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida in Broward County in 2022 with Judge Elizabeth Scherer presiding. Cruz was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. In June 2020, following the George Floyd protests , some residents called for the county to be renamed due to Governor Broward's support for segregation and the Back-to-Africa movement . According to
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2058-675: The small bones of the deceased with the rest of the body, and put the larger bones in a box for the village people to see. The Tequesta are credited with making the Miami Circle . Broward County was founded on April 30, 1915. It was intended to be named Everglades County, but then- Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Ion Farris amended the bill that established the county to name it in honor of Napoleon Bonaparte Broward , governor of Florida from 1905 to 1909. Throughout his term as governor, Broward championed Everglades drainage and
2107-447: The transformation from agricultural to urbanized residential area began. In 1967, Coconut Creek was incorporated. The effects of a national recession hit the county in 1974 and the population growth finally slowed. This is from a peak growth percentage change of 297.9% which saw the population of Broward grow from 83,933 as of 1950 to 333,946 in 1960 . The population subsequently experienced an 85.7% population growth which brought
2156-733: The world's 50 busiest airports. FLL is classified by the US Federal Aviation Administration as a "major hub" facility serving commercial air traffic. In 2017 the airport processed 32,511,053 passengers (11.3% more than 2016) including 7,183,275 international passengers (18.6% more than 2016). A street grid stretches throughout Broward County. Most of this grid is loosely based on three primary eastern municipalities, (from South to North) Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale, and Pompano Beach. Deerfield Beach—another primary eastern municipality—has its own street grid, as do two smaller municipalities—Dania Beach and Hallandale Beach. Construction
2205-403: Was 65 or older. The average household size was 2.19, and the average family size was 2.85. In 2000, the age distribution was 20.0% under 18, 6.9% from 18 to 24, 31.9% from 25 to 44, 25.1% from 45 to 64, and 16.1% who were 65 or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.6 males. For every 100 females 18 and over, there were 99.4 males. In 2000, the median income for
2254-739: Was completed through Broward County. On January 19, 1977, snow fell in South Florida for the first time in recorded history. Snow was seen across all of South Florida as far south as Homestead and even on Miami Beach. Snow was officially reported by weather observers in West Palm Beach, LaBelle, Hollywood, and Royal Palm Ranger Station in southern Miami-Dade County. In the year 1980, the US census reported over 1 million people living in Broward County. On August 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew passed through Broward County County, causing $ 100 million in damage in
2303-559: Was remembered for his campaign to turn the Everglades into "useful land". This opened up much of today's urban Broward County for development, first as agricultural land and later as residential. A year before Broward became governor, Dania became the first incorporated community of what is now Broward County, followed by Pompano in 1908, and Fort Lauderdale in 1911. In 1915, Palm Beach and Dade counties contributed nearly equal portions of land to create Broward County. Broward County began
2352-437: Was spoken by 0.80% of the population. As of 2000, Dania Beach had the 127th-highest percentage of Cuban residents in the US, at 1.69% of the city's population (tied with Fort Lauderdale and Parkland ). The airline Sun Air International has its headquarters in Dania Beach. American Maritime Officers is headquartered in Dania Beach, as well as Alec Bradley Cigar Co. and Chewy.com , which also have their headquarters in
2401-399: Was the most damaging storm in Broward County since Hurricane King in 1950. Broward experienced wind speeds between 80 and 100 mph (130 and 160 km/h) which endured for about five hours. On February 14, 2018, the city of Parkland became the scene of a deadly mass shooting perpetrated by a 19-year-old former student of Stoneman Douglas High School . The trial of the perpetrator of
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