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Plantation, FL
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Plantation profile


Living in Plantation


Plantation is a relatively large city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 100,694 people and 20 associated neighborhoods, Plantation is the 30th largest community in Florida.

Housing costs in Plantation are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in Florida.

Also of interest is that Plantation has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 16.13% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

The education level of Plantation ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Plantation, 44.85% have at least a bachelor's degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree.

The per capita income in Plantation in 2022 was $48,657, which is upper middle income relative to Florida, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $194,628 for a family of four. However, Plantation contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Plantation is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Plantation home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Plantation residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Plantation also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 30.17% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Plantation include Italian, Jamaican, Irish, German, and Haitian.

In addition, Plantation has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (30.60%).

The most common language spoken in Plantation is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.