THE SUNRISE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Miami Ridge/Atlantic Coastal Strip setting.
Sunrise city has 16.2 square miles of land in Broward County. Its Census reference point is in Miami Ridge/Atlantic Coastal Strip, within Southern Florida Coastal Plain.
Very low-relief southern Florida terrain includes marsh, swamp, Everglades and palmetto-prairie settings. Small elevation differences can correspond to substantial changes in vegetation and water conditions.
Regional context: Southern Florida Coastal Plain ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Sunrise and Broward County
Sunrise is associated with Broward County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Sunrise by land and water
The Census records 1.92 square miles of water within Sunrise, or 10.6% of its total area. It is 2.6 percentage points higher than the 8.1% recorded for Broward County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Sunrise city has 1.4 times the land area of nearby Tamarac city (11.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

