Pembroke Pines is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 137,112 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Pembroke Pines is the tenth largest community in Florida.

Pembroke Pines is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 85.30% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Pembroke Pines is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pembroke Pines who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.36%), sales jobs (13.80%), and management occupations (12.72%).

Also of interest is that Pembroke Pines has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One downside of living in Pembroke Pines is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Pembroke Pines, the average commute to work is 31.80 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

"If you live in Pembroke Pines, you are going to have to drive to get to work," say area residents. At least that is what most Pembroke Pines residents do (97.5%). Pembroke Pines is primarily built for cars, and driving around town will bare this out. Shopping centers, parking lots, strip malls, and wide streets are what you'll find. Sidewalks? Sure. But not everywhere, and walking to most places can be downright scary.

Pembroke Pines Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Pembroke Pines is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 28.68% of adults in Pembroke Pines have a college degree.

The per capita income in Pembroke Pines in 2000 was $23,843, which is upper middle income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $95,372 for a family of four.

Pembroke Pines is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Pembroke Pines home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Pembroke Pines is White, followed by African-American. Pembroke Pines also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 27.97% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Pembroke Pines include Italian, Jamaican, German, Irish, English, Polish, and Russian.

Pembroke Pines also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 28.97%.

The most common language spoken in Pembroke Pines is English. Some people also speak Spanish.