Miami Metropolitan Area

Miami is best known for its Cuban population but newspapers from the 1950s refer to Puerto Ricans as the fastest-growing Spanish population in the area. The maps below give a visual representation of population density for Puerto Rican populations living in the Miami – Ft. Lauderdale area. The tables give a comparative view of Puerto Ricans to the total population in the Miami – Ft. Lauderdale area in the follow data categories: age and population, housing tenure, educational attainment, income, employment status, poverty rates, occupation, industry, and class of worker.