As of the census of the 2007 conducted mid-decade census, there were 15,376 people, 5,190 households, and approximately 4,000 families residing in the city of Opa-locka, Florida. This translates into a population density was 3,451.9 inhabitants per square mile, with 5,407 housing units at an average density of 1,248.4 per square mile.
In these 5,190 households, 41.2% of residents were children under the age of 18 and 28.4% were married couples living together. The remaining households were female households heads in 35.2% of homes, and 29.7% were non-related people sharing a home. Individuals living along were in 24.8% of all households and 8.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household had 2.97 people living in it, and the average size of the family was 3.52.
Opa-locka’s emphasis toward residential homeownership is widely documented, as the city’s homestead exemption has increased significantly with construction of a planned townhouse community in the city. Also available is reasonable availability of rental units throughout the city. An increase in the median income of residents is projected wherein a household in the city will rise $7,000 to $32,000, and the median income for a family from $27,420 to $32,000. The census figures show that males had a median income of $22,347 versus $19,270 for females, while the per capita income for the city is approximately $15,000. Other evidence of increases in projected median income are that 31.5% of families and 35.2% of the population are rising above the poverty line.
As of the 2000 Census, Opa-locka had the forty-sixth highest percentage of residents of Cuban descent in the US, at 9.58% of its populace. It also had the forty-ninth highest percentage of Dominican residents in the US, and the fifty-second highest percentage of Haitian residents in the US. It also had the forty-third most Jamaicans in the US, while it had the nineteenth highest percentage of Nicaraguans, at 2.22% of all residents.
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