Miami Beach is a larger medium-sized coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of Florida. With a population of 88,061 people and 12 constituent neighborhoods, Miami Beach is the 16th largest community in Florida.

Miami Beach is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 88.21% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Miami Beach is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Miami Beach who work in sales jobs (14.35%), management occupations (13.24%), and office and administrative support jobs (12.55%).

Of important note, Miami Beach is also a city of artists. Miami Beach has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Miami Beach's character.

Another interesting thing about Miami Beach, despite not being a huge city, is that there is a relatively high proportion of people living here who are young, single, and upwardly-mobile professionals. This makes it a good choice for other relocating single professionals. Here, these young singles will find many others like themselves, with opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Miami Beach is also home to many people who can be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

One of the nice things about Miami Beach is that is it nautical, meaning that parts of the city are somewhat historic and on the ocean, or touch tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Because of this, visitors and locals will often go to these areas to take in the scenery or to enjoy waterfront activities. This is definately true of Miami Beach, which supports a strong tourist economy.

Like elsewhere in America, most people in Miami Beach use a private automobile to get to work. But notably, a substantial number of Miami Beach's citizens do make use of public transit in their daily commute, primarily riding the bus. This helps more people get to work with less air pollution, and require fewer highways to get them there.

Miami Beach Information and Demographics

The education level of Miami Beach citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 33.49% of adults in Miami Beach have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Miami Beach in 2000 was $27,853, which is upper middle income relative to Florida, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $111,412 for a family of four.

Miami Beach is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Miami Beach home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Miami Beach is White, followed by African-American. Miami Beach also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 53.35% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Miami Beach include Italian, Russian, German, Polish, Irish, and Brazilian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Miami Beach's cultural character, accounting for 55.48% of the city's population.

The most common language spoken in Miami Beach is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Portuguese.