THE BROWARD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Everglades setting.
Broward County has 1,203 square miles of land in Florida. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Broward County: Everglades, Miami Ridge/Atlantic Coastal Strip, Big Cypress.
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 ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Broward County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Everglades66%
- Miami Ridge/Atlantic Coastal Strip32.4%
- Big Cypress1.6%
Finding your parcel within Broward County
The atlas lists 37 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Broward County, including Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Pembroke Pines. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Broward County by land and water
The Census records 105.4 square miles of water within Broward County, or 8.1% of its total area. That share is close to Broward County’s 8.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Broward County has 48.9 times the land area of nearby Weston city (24.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Collier County, Hendry County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County within Florida. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

