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Plantation, FL
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Plantation profile


Living in Plantation



Plantation is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 96,042 people and 20 associated neighborhoods, Plantation is the 30th largest community 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.

A relatively large number of people in Plantation telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 15.18% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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 citizens of Plantation are among the most well-educated in the nation: 44.06% of adults in Plantation have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Plantation in 2018 was $45,711, which is upper middle income relative to Florida, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $182,844 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 29.34% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Plantation include Irish, Italian, Jamaican, Haitian, and German.

In addition, Plantation has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (30.36%).

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