Lighthouse Point is a suburb of Fort Lauderdale located in
Broward County
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, Florida, United States. The suburb was named for the
Hillsboro Inlet Light
Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse is a lighthouse located on the north side of Hillsboro Inlet, midway between Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton, in Hillsboro Beach, Florida. The light marks the northern limit of the Florida Reef, an underwater coral fo ...
house, which is located in nearby Hillsboro Beach. As of the 2020 census, the population of Lighthouse Point was 10,486. Lighthouse Point is a part of the Miami metropolitan area, home to 6,166,488 people at the 2020 census.
Geography
Lighthouse point is located at . According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the city has a total area of , of which is land and (4.58%) is water.
Lighthouse Point is located in northeastern Broward County. It is adjacent to the following municipalities:
To its north:
* Deerfield Beach
To its east:
* Hillsboro Beach (across the
Intracoastal Waterway
The Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) is a inland waterway along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts of the United States, running from Massachusetts southward along the Atlantic Seaboard and around the southern tip of Florida, then following t ...
)
To its west and south:
*
Pompano Beach
Pompano Beach ( ) is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. It is located along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, just north of Fort Lauderdale. The nearby Hillsboro Inlet forms part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. As of the 2020 ...
Lighthouse Point is known for boating as the vast majority of the city is built on canals built during the 1950s to 1960's. This created a large amount of water front housing and made boating and fishing popular.
Through the Hillsboro Inlet boats can reach the Bahamas within 40 miles to Bimini or 60 miles to Grand Bahama.
Demographics
2020 census
As of the
2020 United States census
The United States census of 2020 was the twenty-fourth decennial United States census. Census Day, the reference day used for the census, was April 1, 2020. Other than a pilot study during the 2000 census, this was the first U.S. census to of ...
, there were 10,486 people, 5,188 households, and 3,141 families residing in the city.
2010 census
As of 2010, there were 5,774 households, out of which 15.1% were vacant. In 2000, 19.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.7% were married couples living together, 6.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 40.4% were non-families. 33.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.08 and the average family size was 2.65.
2000 census
In 2000, the city the population was spread out, with 16.2% under the age of 18, 3.4% from 18 to 24, 27.1% from 25 to 44, 30.1% from 45 to 64, and 23.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 47 years. For every 100 females, there were 91.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.4 males.
As of 2000, the median income for a household in the city was $53,038, and the median income for a family was $72,418. Males had a median income of $51,897 versus $32,929 for females. The
per capita income
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Per capita i ...
for the city was $40,839. About 2.6% of families and 5.0% of the population were below the
poverty line
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, including 3.8% of those under age 18 and 6.5% of those age 65 or over.
As of 2000, speakers of English as their
first language
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were 19.18%, while 74.64% spoke Spanish as theirs. Other languages spoken as a first language are Italian 1.93%, French 1.22%, German at 1.06%, and Portuguese at 0.71%.
Media
Lighthouse Point is part of the
Miami
Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a coastal metropolis and the county seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida, United States. With a population of 442,241 at ...
- Fort Lauderdale- Hollywood media market, which is the twelfth largest radio market and the seventeenth largest television market in the United States. Its primary daily newspapers are the '' South Florida Sun-Sentinel'' and ''
The Miami Herald
The ''Miami Herald'' is an American daily newspaper owned by the McClatchy Company and headquartered in Doral, Florida, a city in western Miami-Dade County and the Miami metropolitan area, several miles west of Downtown Miami.El Sentinel'' and ''
El Nuevo Herald
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About ''el Nuevo ...
''.
Each house, apartment and business in Lighthouse Point receives the monthly lifestyle magazine "Lighthouse Point" created and mailed by publishers Susan and Richard Rosser.
Education
Broward County Public Schools
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serves the community. All residents are zoned to Norcrest Elementary School (
Pompano Beach
Pompano Beach ( ) is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. It is located along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, just north of Fort Lauderdale. The nearby Hillsboro Inlet forms part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. As of the 2020 ...
), Deerfield Beach Middle School, and
Deerfield Beach High School
Deerfield Beach High School (DBHS) is a public high school in Deerfield Beach, Florida. It is part of the Broward School District and has an enrollment of approximately 2,400.
The school features the IB Middle Years Programme or Pre-IB, which ...
(located in Deerfield Beach). It is also in the service area of the
magnet school
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Mission Statement: The Doreen Gauthier Lighthouse Point Library was established (1965) for the purpose of providing community members of all ages with informational, recreational, cultural, and educational enrichment through access to print materials, digital resources, current technologies, services, programs, and a professional library staff.
The first part-time library was a small room in the Beacon Light Shopping Center where the owner gave this area rent free for three months as a gesture of goodwill . The branch began building its collection with duplicate copies of titles from Pompano and Deerfield Beach Libraries, as well as donations from the general public . On March 30, 1965 a glamorous Library Ball was held, with the Lighthouse Point Bank underwriting the cost of the event as well as cosponsoring the affair. The event raised over $5,000 . By 1966 the library owned more than 3,000 items, and the tradition of having a Library Ball was continued annually from 1966 to 1971 . In January of 1968 a lease was signed for a rental of two empty stores in the Venetian Isles Shopping Center, and by this point the library had 921 members . Circulation grew from 314 books in 1965 to over 10,000 books in 1968 .In 1972, the Library began to function under the jurisdiction of the City of Lighthouse Point. . In 1984, the Publix in the Venetian Sopping center announced its plan to take over the entire shopping area, and the contents of the library was moved into a huge trailed unit in November of 1985 and stored on the grounds of the Trinity United Methodist Church . The city commission pitched an idea to build a complex with the library as a focal point, and in the mean time library staff worked out of the storage unit . It wasn’t until May of 1987 that the move into the current permanent library began with over 20,000 items and more than 7,000 library memberships. .
The library has a print collection of over 40,000 circulating titles, patron wifi access, public computers, a fax machine, scanning and printing, AWE Kids Learning Stations, Overdrive eBooks and streaming audio-books, access to the Florida Electronic Library and digital research databases, audio books on CD, DVDs, magazines and newspapers, study rooms (by appointment), and exam proctoring (by appointment only).
Ben Klassen
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, founder of the religion
Creativity
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Bruce Nickells
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Biography
Nickells, who grew up in Princeton, Illinois, began working with harness r ...
Mike Phipps
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, College Football Hall of Fame member
* Nevin Shapiro, University of Miami football
booster
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Amusement rides
* Booster (Fabbri ride), a pendulum ride
* Booster (HUSS ride), an evolution of the Breakdance ride
* Booster (KMG ride), a pendulum ride
Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters
* Booster, a cha ...