Plantation is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 96,548 people and 20 associated neighborhoods, Plantation is the 30th largest community in Florida.

Housing costs in Plantation are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in Florida.

Also of interest is that Plantation has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 16.13% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

The citizens of Plantation are among the most well-educated in the nation: 44.85% of adults in Plantation have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Plantation in 2022 was $48,657, which is upper middle income relative to Florida, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $194,628 for a family of four. However, Plantation contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Plantation is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Plantation home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Plantation residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Plantation also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 30.17% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Plantation include Italian, Jamaican, Irish, German, and Haitian.

Plantation also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 30.60%.

The most common language spoken in Plantation is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.