Broward County area

Population and density of Broward County

The Census Bureau estimates that 2,013,317 people lived in Broward County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #17 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #2 of 67 in Florida. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 1,944,376, the population has grown by 68,941 (+3.5%), compared with +8.9% for Florida as a whole.

With 1,203 square miles of land, that is 1,674 people per square mile (646 per km²), placing Broward County #101 nationally for density and #3 in Florida. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Florida median is 209. Put another way, there are about 0.382 acres of land per resident.

U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. Estimates are revised each year and are not decennial census counts. Density divides the whole population by the whole county’s land area, so it describes an average, not how settlement is distributed within the county. Population sources and methods.

Cities and towns in Broward County

31 incorporated places lie at least partly in Broward County. Together they are home to 1,995,900 people (99.1%); the other 17,417 (0.9%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Fort Lauderdale city, with 188,677 residents in the county. By land, Davie town is the largest at 35 mi². Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Parkland city grew fastest since then (+13%).

Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 subcounty estimates, counting only the part of each place inside Broward County. Land: 2026 Census Gazetteer, for the whole place even where it extends into other counties. How communities are listed.

Metropolitan area

Broward County is a central county of the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area, in the Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Sunrise, FL metropolitan division. Its 3 county equivalents have 6,391,072 residents on 5,067.3 square miles of land; Broward County accounts for 23.7% of the land and 31.5% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #51 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #8 by population. It belongs to the Miami-Port St. Lucie-Fort Lauderdale, FL Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

55 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Broward County, and each lies mostly inside the county.

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ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Broward County

Broward County shares a land border with 4 county equivalents. It has more land than 1 of them. The largest neighbor is Collier County (1,997 mi²) and the smallest is Hendry County (1,156 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Broward County forms a block of 8,220.3 mi² of land, of which it holds 14.6%.

How big is Broward County compared with U.S. states?

Broward County has more land than 1 of the 50 states. It is about 1.2 times the land area of Rhode Island (1,033.9 mi²), while Delaware, the next larger state, has 1.6 times as much land (1,948.6 mi²). Florida’s county land could hold about 45 areas the size of Broward County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 34.7 miles (55.8 km) on each side. Real county shapes are rarely square, so this is a scale reference rather than a width or driving distance.

State figures are the sums of each state’s county-equivalent land measurements in the same Census release, so states and counties are compared on the same basis. Published state totals can differ slightly because of rounding. Compare all states · Counties bigger than entire states.

What stands out about Broward County?

Broward County has more land than 2,713 of the other 3,221 county equivalents in the dataset.

A median is the middle county-equivalent measurement, not the average of the largest and smallest. All three bars use the same linear scale. Very small areas may appear as a thin sliver; the labels retain their values.

Does including water change its rank?

Using land plus water places Broward County at #525 nationally by total area, 16 places farther from the top than its land rank. Other county equivalents gain more area when their water measurements are included.

Its water share is 8.1%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 6.9 percentage points higher. This describes the statistical geography’s land/water mix, not flood exposure or developable land.

Closest positions in the national land ranking

These entries sit immediately beside Broward County in the national ranking. They can be in different states and are not necessarily geographic neighbors.

Calculated from the same Census release as the area table. Total-area order uses original ALAND + AWATER; water shares and chart labels use published square miles. Calculation details.