Broward County, Florida

Broward County is part of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.

In the U.S. Census of 2010 the Ethnic/Race Demographics were:

• White (non-Hispanic): 42.5% (8.7% Irish, 8.2% Italian, 7.9% German, 5.0% English, 3.2% Polish, 2.7% Russian, 1.9% French, 1.0% Scottish, 0.8% Dutch, 0.8% Scotch-Irish, 0.8% Hungarian, 0.6% Swedish, 0.6% French Canadian, 0.5% Greek)
• White including "White Hispanics": 63.1%
• Black (non-Hispanic): 25.7% (12.8% West Indian/Afro-Caribbean American: 5.7% Haitian, 5.3% Jamaican, 0.4% Trinidadian and Tobagonian, 0.3% Bahamian, 0.2% British West Indian, 0.1% Barbadian) 0.8% Subsaharan African
• Black including Black Hispanics: 26,7%
• Hispanic or Latino of any race: 26.1% (4.8% Cuban, 4.3% Puerto Rican, 3.8% Colombian, 1.7% Mexican, 1.6% Dominican, 1.4% Peruvian, 1.3% Venezuelan, 0.7% Ecuadoran, 0.7% Honduran, 0.6% Argentinean, 0.5% Nicaraguan, 0.5% Salvadoran)
• Asian: 3.2% (1.2% Indian, 0.6% Chinese, 0.5% Other Asian, 0.4% Filipino, 0.3% Vietnamese, 0.1% Japanese, 0.1% Korean)
• American Indian and Alaska Native: 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander: 0.1%
• Other Races: 3.7% (0.7% Arab)

Broward county was created in 1915 and was named with the second surname name of the former Florida governor: Napoleon Bonaparte Broward. Since then it has had a great growth in the XX century, mainly as "retirement place" for old people from northeastern US and French Canada.[1]

1. History of Broward county