Miami metropolitan area

The metropolitan Miami (English: Miami metropolitan area ) is a metropolitan area that covers the Greater Miami and areas further north in southern Florida. The Office of Management and Budget designates the region as a Miami -Fort Lauderdale- Pompano Beach, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area, a so-called by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes Metropolitan Statistical Area ( MSA). The metropolitan area was formerly called South Florida Metropolitan area.

Parts of the three most populous counties in Florida, Miami -Dade, Broward and Palm Beach on the east coast belong to the region. According to the United States Census 2010, lived there at the time of the census 5,564,635 inhabitants. This is the region's most populous MSA in Florida and the southeastern states of the U.S. and the eight largest of the State.

• 2.1 demographics
• 2.2 Origin and Languages
• 2.3 Education

• 4.1 roads
• 4.2 Public Transport
• 4.3 Airports
• 4.4 seaports

Geography

Subdivision of the MSA

The MSA is divided by the borders of the counties in three parts.

Major Cities

The Census Bureau defines so-called principal cities on population size and employment. In general, a principal city commute in to work and more people into it as we go. In December 2009, the following cities were designated as principal cities by the Census Bureau:

• Miami -Dade Homestead, Kendall, Miami, Miami Beach
• Broward Deerfield Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Pompano Beach
• Palm Beach: Boca Raton, Boynton Beach, Delray Beach, West Palm Beach

Fort Lauderdale

West Palm Beach

Population

Demography

In southern Florida diverse population groups living with a high proportion of nichtgebürtigen Americans. Of these, make a large part due to the adjacent Caribbean from people from Latin America. Furthermore, many Americans here from more northern states have their first or second home; especially many retirees settle due to the warm climate in the area.

In addition to the dominant Christian faith denominations exist with 10.2% a high percentage of Jewish population in the region. In addition, here, about 70,000 Americans converted to Islam live.

In 2010, about 52 % of the 5,564,635 inhabitants of the region, female ( approximately 2.8 million) and 48 % were male ( approximately 2.6 million). The mean age was 38.6 years. A share of 24 % of the population was younger than 18 years and 15 % at least 65 years old. A total of 2,097,626 households, and 1,378,108 families residing in the metropolitan area were registered.

Ethnic groups:

• White: 70.3% [ 3,914,239 ]
• African Americans (mostly from the Caribbean to arise ): 21 % [ 1,075,174 ]
• Native: 0.3 % [ 16,108 ]
• Asian Americans: 2.3% [ 125 564 ]
• Other ethnic groups: 3.5% [ 197 183 ]
• Multiracial Americans: 2.5% [ 140,000 ]

Hispanics and Latinos make up 41.6 % [ 2,312,929 ] of the population.

Origin and languages

Around 30 % of the current population of the metropolitan area are native Floridians, making a total of 63 % US-born, taken together with a share of another 33% from other areas of the United States. Ergo about 37 % of the population were born overseas. Of the at least since she was five years living there in 2005, 52% of people speak English, 48% are of other languages. Of the foreign language learning, in turn, 78 % speak Spanish and the remaining 22% mostly Haitian, but also languages ​​like French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Brazilian, Russian or Yiddish. 47 % of the population stated that she could not very well ( "very well " ) speak English.

In 2005, there were 83 % of the population at least one year at their former place of residence. 12 % moved to within the county and a further 2% moved here from another county in Florida. Again, 2% immigrated from another state, and 1% from abroad.

The total of 2.33845 million households in 2005 there were an average of 2.6 people per household. Of this total, 65 % of households from families that were each 45% of married-couple families and 20 % from other families. Most of the remaining 35% of households were led by individuals.

Education

In 2005, had by the population that was at least 25 years old, 30 % have a bachelor's degree and 83 % have a high school diploma. About 7% of 16-19 year-old population were school dropouts. In the year there were 1.4 million school enrollment. Of these, 170,000 arose on the nursery or preschool, 879,000 in elementary school ( Primary School or Elementary School ) and high school as well as 354,000 to the college or university.

Education

In Florida, each county is also a school district, which is led by an elected body. The council, in turn, stands in front of a full-time supervisor, who leads the daily operations of the school district.

Some colleges and universities in the region are listed below:

• Barry University (private / catholic )
• Broward College (state )
• Carlos Albizu University ( private)
• Florida Atlantic University (state )
• Florida International University (state )
• Florida Memorial University (private)
• Johnson & Wales University (private)
• Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Miami (private)
• Lynn University (private)
• Miami Dade College (state )
• Northwood University (private)
• Nova Southeastern University (private)
• Palm Beach Atlantic University (private / Christian)
• Palm Beach State College ( State )
• St. Thomas University (private / catholic )
• University of Miami (private)

Traffic

The region is crossed by five interstate highways operated by the Florida Department of Transportation ( FDOT ). The major Interstate I-95 that crosses all three counties from north to south. Beginning in Maine, it leads to the U.S. east coast and ends in Miami, where it merges with U.S. Route 1. The I -75 is the continuation of SR 924 in Miami Lakes and leads in several arches over Weston first through the Everglades west to Naples. From here it continues north through Tampa and Atlanta up to Sault Ste. Marie on the Canadian border. The I -595 connects the Broward County I-75 in Weston in the west to the I -95 and the Fort Lauderdale airport to the east. The I- 195 and I-395 are two freeways connecting the Miami International Airport in the west with Miami Beach in the east and in each case the I-95 intersect.

In Greater Miami Florida 's Turnpike Enterprise, the private (RTD) operates some partly toll highways along with the Miami -Dade Expressway Authority ( MDX). These are the Florida State Roads 112, 826, 836, 874, 878 and 924 and Florida 's Turnpike, which begins at Golden Glades and north through eleven counties runs up to Orlando substantially parallel to I-95, with both motorways about 30 km share a common route.

The SR 869 in Broward County begins on I- 75 in Weston and heading first north on Coral Springs and then further east to Deerfield Beach.

In addition, some other important, but not without crossing -developed U.S. Highways and State Roads run through the region, including U.S. Highway 1, the most up to Fort Kent runs parallel to I-95 from Key West to the Canadian border.

Public transportation

In the long distance rail Amtrak Miami connects to the new Central Station with several cities in the region and beyond, providing direct access to a variety of cities along the east coast to New York City. In regional transport the Tri-Rail operates within the metropolitan area of ​​18 stations along a route from the Central Station until after Mangonia Park in Palm Beach County. Of these, from the Amtrak next to the Central Station railway stations Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale, Deerfield Beach, Delray Beach and West Palm Beach served.

In 2011, the construction should have begun a high-speed rail from Tampa through Orlando to Miami. The course should be driven by the principle of pooling roads along the existing road network with an intended speed of 270 up to 300 km / hr. The plans were laid by Governor Rick Scott in March 2011 on ice.

Miami has the suburban railway Metrorail and Metromover inner-city elevated train. The use of the latter path is free. Both paths are operated in conjunction with the bus system Metrobus from the Miami- Dade Transit. The Broward and Palm Beach counties operate with Broward County Transit and Palm Tran their own bus companies.

Airports

The region is served by three international airports. Together, they wrap to New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago as the fourth largest volume of traffic in the United States.

The following smaller airports are mainly used for domestic and private flights.

Seaports

The region has four seaports, of which the port of Miami Florida is largest. He is the ninth largest container port in the United States, and the largest port for cruise ships worldwide. The other three ports are Port Everglades, the Port of Palm Beach and the Miami River Port. On August 21, 2012, a deepening of the Port of Miami was decided, was thus responding to the planned 2015 expansion of the Panama Canal. He will then be south of Norfolk, Virginia, the only port with a water depth of about 50 feet. The expansion will create more than 30,000 direct and indirect jobs and let the turnover rate of the port up into the next decade to double.

Sports

• The Miami Dolphins play in the National Football League and play their home games at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens from.
• The Miami Heat play in the National Basketball Association and play their home games at the American Airlines Arena in Downtown Miami.
• The Miami Marlins play in Major League Baseball and play their home games at Marlins Park in Little Havana from.
• The Florida Panthers play in the National Hockey League and play their home games at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise from.
• The Fort Lauderdale Strikers play in the North American Soccer League and play their home games at Lockhart Stadium in Fort Lauderdale.
• The Miami Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals conduct their Spring Training in Jupiter at Roger Dean Stadium by.
• The Baltimore Orioles conduct their spring training in Fort Lauderdale at Fort Lauderdale Stadium by.
• The region is also home to the sports teams of Barry University, Florida Atlantic University, Florida International University (FIU Stadium, U.S. Century Bank Arena and FIU Baseball Stadium ), Nova Southeastern University and University of Miami (Sun Life Stadium, BankUnited Center and Mark Light Field).
• The Homestead -Miami Speedway is the venue of events both NASCAR and IndyCar series. The Palm Beach International Raceway is a smaller track.