The demographic makeup of plantation owners and workers in Broward County, FL is quite diverse. According to the latest data, whites have the highest high school graduation rate at 87.01%, while Native Americans have the highest rate of bachelor's degrees at 59.3%. In 1993, the insurance company Kemper National Services opened operations in Plantation and announced plans to double its office space and hire up to 800 additional employees. The graph below shows homes in Plantation, Florida, distributed among a number of income groups compared to the national averages for each group. Car ownership in Plantation is approximately equal to the national average, with an average of 2 cars per home.
The city's name comes from the former co-owner of the land, the Everglades Plantation Company, and from her unsuccessful attempts to establish a rice plantation in the area. In 1976, a 15-meter oak tree was planted in Fifth Street Park in Plantation to represent the Tree of Liberty. The map below shows all locations in Plantation, Florida, colored by their median household income (total). The chart below shows homes in Plantation, Florida, distributed among a number of car ownership groups compared to the national averages for each group. The chart below shows the percentage of foreign-born residents in Plantation, FL compared to their neighboring geographies and matrices. Plantation is located in the center of Broward County and is bordered by Lauderhill to the northeast, Sunrise to the north and west, Davie to the south, and Fort Lauderdale to the east. The table below shows the 7 breeds represented in Plantation, Florida, as a proportion of the total population.
After his election in 1905, Jennings' successor Napoleon Bonaparte Broward appointed him as general counsel of the Internal Improvement Fund and continued his initiative to completely drain the Everglades (a central theme of his election campaign). None of the Plantation, Florida households reported that their main common language was other than English. The chart below shows the percentage of homeowners in Plantation, FL compared to their main and neighboring geographies. The largest universities in Plantation, Florida by number of degrees awarded are Florida Barber Academy (219 and 89.8%) and Paul Mitchell the School-Fort Lauderdale (25 and 10.2%).
