Tamarac is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 75,147 people and 17 associated neighborhoods, Tamarac is the 45th largest community in Florida.Tamarac is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Tamarac is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Tamarac who work in office and administrative support (14.99%), management occupations (10.77%), and sales jobs (9.58%). Also of interest is that Tamarac 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: 11.85% 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. In Tamarac, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.12 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. In terms of college education, Tamarac is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 29.39% of adults in Tamarac have a college degree. The per capita income in Tamarac in 2022 was $35,893, which is middle income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $143,572 for a family of four. However, Tamarac contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Tamarac is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Tamarac home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tamarac residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Tamarac also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 31.51% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Tamarac include Jamaican, Haitian, Italian, Irish, and English. Tamarac also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 39.95%. The most common language spoken in Tamarac is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
