Weston, Florida

Weston is a city located in Broward County, Florida, USA. Established as a city in 1996, much of the community was developed by Arvida/JMB Partners and is located near the western developmental boundary of Broward County. As of 2006, the city had a total population of 65,793.^[3] Weston is part of the South Florida metropolitan area, which is home to 5,463,857 people.^[6] An 800 year old Tequesta Indian burial mound is located in the city.

In 2006, Money Magazine ranked Weston 20th in America in the "Biggest Earners" category.^[7] It was also ranked as the city with largest job growth in Florida and 18th largest in the nation.^[8] BusinessWeek ranked Weston as one of the "best affordable suburbs" in the United States in November 2006.^[9]^[10] Due to it being a fully planned community, local realtors often state that "everything is located exactly where it should be."

1 Geography
2 Demographics
3 Education
4 Notable residents
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Geography

Weston is located at 26°6'27" North, 80°23'17" West (26.107534, -80.388151)^[11]. The city is located at the western edge of development in Broward County. It is bordered by the following municipalities:

On its northeast: Sunrise
On its east: Davie
On its south: Southwest Ranches

According to the United States Census Bureau the city has a total area of 26.28 mi² (69.1 km²), of which 23.76 square miles (62 km²) is land and 2.52 square miles (7 km²) is water. The total area is 9.59% water.

[edit] Demographics

As of April of 2005 there are 61,042 people in the city. The population density is 2,074.2/mi² (800.9/km²). There are 18,943 housing units at an average density of 797.2/mi² (307.8/km²). The racial makeup of the city is 87.83% White (61.8% being Non-Hispanic White,)^[12] 3.72% African American, 0.12% Native American, 3.17% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 2.93% from other races and 2.23% from two or more races. 30.19% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. The Latin business community is growing and many retail stores are bilingual.

Weston Hills Country Club

There are 16,576 households out of which 51.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 71.0% are married couples living together, 9.0% have a female householder with no husband present and 17.6% are non-families. 13.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 3.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.97 and the average family size is 3.29.

In the city the population is spread out with 32.4% under the age of 18, 5.0% from 18 to 24, 36.1% from 25 to 44, 19.8% from 45 to 64 and 6.7% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 34 years. For every 100 females there are 94.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over there are 90.2 males.

The median income for a household in the city is $92,748 and the median income for a family is $108,441.^[13] Males have a median income of $63,135 versus $38,119 for females. The per capita income for the city is $35,490. 5.0% of the population and 3.9% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 5.0% of those under the age of 18 and 5.5% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line. The city is generally considered to be an upper middle class to affluent/wealthy living area.

As of 2000, English was spoken as a first language by 62.54% of the residents and Spanish comprised 31.40% of the population. Also, Portuguese speakers comprised 1.29% of the population. Some other languages spoken were French at 0.82%,Korean at 0.49%, and Chinese as a mother tongue of 0.47% of all residents.^[14]

As of 2000, Weston had the second highest percentage of Venezuelans, at 4.1% of the city's residents (Doral having the highest Venezuelan population in the US, with 8.22%,)^[15] and the fourteenth highest percentage of Colombian residents in the US, at 6.19% of the city's population.^[16] It also had the seventy-seventh highest Cuban concentration, at 4.05% of all residents,^[17] and had the forty-seventh highest percentage of Peruvians in the US, with 1.19% of the population (tied with Orange, New Jersey.)^[18]

[edit] Education

[edit] Public Elementary Schools

Country Isles Elementary School	Eagle Point Elementary School	Everglades Elementary School
http://www.countryisles.net	http://www.broward.k12.fl.us/eaglepointelem	http://www.broward.k12.fl.us/evergladeselem

Gator Run Elementary School	Indian Trace Elementary School	Manatee Bay Elementary School
http://www.broward.k12.fl.us/gatorrunelem	http://www.indiantrace.com	http://www.manateebayelementary.net

[edit] Public Middle Schools

[edit] Public High Schools

Cypress Bay High School- Home to "The Paper (TV series)"

[edit] Private Elementary Schools

Sagemont Lower School

[edit] Private 6-12 Schools

Sagemont Upper School

[edit] Institutions of Higher Learning

American InterContinental University South Florida Campus is located in Weston.

[edit] Charter Schools

Imagine Charter School at Weston

[edit] Notable residents

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Jeff Conine - Retired baseball player who previously played for the Florida Marlins.
Brandon Jackson - Professional football player for the Green Bay Packers.
José Canseco - Former professional baseball player and reality TV celebrity.
Bartolo Colón - Professional baseball player for the Boston Red Sox.
Louis L. Gregory - Famous Musician, Hip-Hop Producer, Writer
Bernie Kosar - Former professional NFL quarterback for the Cleveland Browns.
Dan Marino - NFL Hall of Fame quarterback and former member of the Miami Dolphins.
Roberto Moreno - Brazilian racecar driver ace for Formula 1, IRL and Champcars.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz - US Representative
Angelo Dundee - Famed professional boxing trainer/corner man who trained Sugar Ray Leonard and Mohammad Ali.
Manny Ramírez - Professional baseball player for the Boston Red Sox.
Sugar Ray Leonard - Famous boxer
Jason Taylor - Professional football player for the Miami Dolphins.
Hanley Ramirez- Professional baseball player (Florida Marlins shortstop)

[edit] References

^ Florida by place Population, Housing Units, Area and Density:2000. US Census Bureau. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
^ Weston, United States Page. Falling Rain Genomics. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
^ ^a ^b Annual Estimates of the population for the Incorporated Places of Florida (XLS). US Census Bureau. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
^ American FactFinder. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
^ US Board on Geographic Names. United States Geological Survey (2007-10-25). Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
^ Annual Estimates of the Population of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2006 (XLS). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
^ Best Places to Live 2006: Top 25 Biggest earners. Money Magazine. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
^ Best Places to Live 2006: Top 25 Fastest job growth. Money magazine. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
^ Best Affordable Suburbs 2006. BusinessWeek. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
^ Freygang, Andrea and Rafkin, Janis (3 November 2006), “The New World: Weston”, South Florida Business Journal, <http://southflorida.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2006/11/06/focus2.html>. Retrieved on 23 July 2007
^ US Gazetteer files: 2000 and 1990. United States Census Bureau (2005-05-03). Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
^ Demographics of Weston, FL. MuniNetGuide.com. Retrieved on 2007-10-24.
^ Best Places to Live 2007: Weston, Florida Snapshot. Money Magazine. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
^ Modern Language Association Data Center Results of Weston, FL. Modern Language Association. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
^ Ancestry Map of Venezuelan Communities. Epodunk.com. Retrieved on 2007-10-24.
^ Ancestry Map of Colombian Communities. Epodunk.com. Retrieved on 2007-10-24.
^ Ancestry Map of Cuban Communities. Epodunk.com. Retrieved on 2007-10-24.
^ Ancestry Map of Peruvian Communities. Epodunk.com. Retrieved on 2007-10-24.

[edit] External links

City of Weston official site

Weston, Florida is at coordinates 26°06′27″N 80°23′17″W / 26.107534, -80.388151 (Weston, Florida)Coordinates: 26°06′27″N 80°23′17″W / 26.107534, -80.388151 (Weston, Florida)
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v • d • e Municipalities and communities of Broward County, Florida

County seat: Fort Lauderdale

Cities	Coconut Creek \| Cooper City \| Coral Springs \| Dania Beach \| Deerfield Beach \| Fort Lauderdale \| Hallandale Beach \| Hollywood \| Lauderdale Lakes \| Lauderhill \| Lighthouse Point \| Margate \| Miramar \| North Lauderdale \| Oakland Park \| Parkland \| Pembroke Pines \| Plantation \| Pompano Beach \| Sunrise \| Tamarac \| West Park \| Weston \| Wilton Manors

Towns	Davie \| Hillsboro Beach \| Lauderdale-by-the-Sea \| Pembroke Park \| Southwest Ranches

Villages	Lazy Lake \| Sea Ranch Lakes

CDPs	Boulevard Gardens \| Broadview Park \| Franklin Park \| Hillsboro Pines \| Hillsboro Ranches \| Pompano Estates \| Roosevelt Gardens \| Sunshine Acres \| Washington Park

Former CDPs	Bonnie Loch-Woodsetter North \| Broadview-Pompano Park \| Broward Estates \| Carver Ranches \| Chambers Estates \| Chula Vista \| Collier Manor-Cresthaven \| Country Estates \| Crystal Lake \| Edgewater \| Estates of Fort Lauderdale \| Godfrey Road \| Golden Heights \| Green Meadow \| Ivanhoe Estates \| Kendall Green \| Lake Forest \| Leisureville \| Loch Lomond \| Melrose Park \| Miami Gardens \| North Andrews Gardens \| Oak Point \| Palm Aire \| Pine Island Ridge \| Pompano Beach Highlands \| Ramblewood East \| Ravenswood Estates \| Riverland Village \| Rock Island \| Rolling Oaks \| Royal Palm Ranches \| St. George \| Sunshine Ranches \| Tedder \| Terra Mar \| Twin Lakes \| Utopia \| Village Park \| West Ken-Lark

Unincorporated communities	Andytown \| Hacienda Village

Notes	† - County Seat A list of cities under 10,000 is available here.
	v • d • e South Florida metropolitan area
Counties	Miami-Dade County \| Broward County \| Palm Beach County
200,000–500,000	Miami^† \| Hialeah
100,000–200,000	Fort Lauderdale^† \| Pembroke Pines \| Hollywood \| Coral Springs \| West Palm Beach^† \| Miramar \| Miami Gardens \| Pompano Beach
50,000–100,000	Sunrise \| Miami Beach \| Boca Raton \| Plantation \| Davie \| Kendall \| Deerfield Beach \| Boynton Beach \| Delray Beach \| Weston \| Fountainbleau \| Lauderhill \| Tamarac \| North Miami \| Kendale Lakes \| Wellington \| Margate \| Tamiami \| Jupiter
10,000–50,000	Aventura \| Belle Glade \| Boca Del Mar \| Brownsville \| Coconut Creek \| Cooper City \| Coral Gables \| Coral Terrace \| Country Club \| Country Walk \| Dania Beach \| Doral \| Gladeview \| Glenvar Heights \| Greenacres \| Hallandale Beach \| Hamptons at Boca Raton \| Homestead \| Ives Estates \| Kendall West \| Key Biscayne \| Kings Point \| Lake Worth \| Lake Worth Corridor \| Lauderdale Lakes \| Leisure City \| Lighthouse Point \| Miami Lakes \| Miami Springs \| North Lauderdale \| North Palm Beach \| Oakland Park \|Olympia Heights \| Opa-Locka \| Ojus \| Palm Beach Gardens \| Palmetto Bay \| Palm Springs \|Palmetto Estates \| Parkland \| Pinecrest \| Pinewood \| Princeton \| Richmond West \| Riviera Beach \| Royal Palm Beach \| Sandalfoot Cove \| South Miami \| South Miami Heights \| Sunny Isles Beach \| Sunset \| Sweetwater \| The Crossings \| The Hammocks \| University Park \| Vero Beach \| West Little River \| Westchester \| West Park, Florida \| Westwood Lakes \| Wilton Manors
Sports	Florida Marlins (baseball) \| Miami Heat (basketball) \| Miami Dolphins (football) \| Florida Panthers (ice hockey)
Airports	Miami International Airport (Miami-Dade) \| Kendall-Tamiami Executive Airport (Miami-Dade) \| Opa-locka Airport (Miami-Dade) \| Opa-locka Executive Airport (Miami-Dade) \| Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (Broward) \| Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport (Broward) \| Pompano Beach Airpark (Broward) \| Palm Beach International Airport (Palm Beach) \| Boca Raton Airport (Palm Beach) \| Palm Beach County Park Airport (Palm Beach) \| North Palm Beach County Airport (Palm Beach)