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Households and families: There were 2,338,450 households the average household size was 2.6 people Families made up 65% of the households in the Miami area This figure includes both married-couple families (45%) and other families (20%) Nonfamily households made up 35% of all households in Miami Most of the nonfamily households were people living alone but some consisted of people living in households in which no one was related to the householder, Miami Florida Business directory Kissimmee River Education households income and poverty North Perry Airport HWO KHWO Broward. Forbes's 2015 Ranking of America's Best Colleges: ranked Barry University 615th on their list of America's Top Colleges. 6 Mount Sinai Medical Center 3,321 See also: Sport in Miami 2.2 Hip hop "Tourism and transportation service performance asset use". Industries: in 2005 for the employed population 16 years and older the leading industries in the Miami area were Educational services health care and social assistance which accounted for 18% and Professional scientific and management and administrative and waste management services which accounted for 13% of the population. .

With the railroad under construction activity in Miami began to pick up Men from throughout Florida flocked to Miami to await Flagler's call for workers of all qualifications to begin work on the promised hotel and city by late December 1895 seventy-five of them already were at work clearing the site for the hotel They lived mostly in tents and huts in the wilderness which had no streets and few cleared paths Many of these men were victims of the freeze which had left both money and work scarce, Some Spanish married or had unions with Pensacola Creek or African women both slave and free and their descendants created a mixed-race population of mestizos and mulattos the Spanish encouraged slaves from the southern British colonies to come to Florida as a refuge promising freedom in exchange for conversion to Catholicism King Charles II of Spain issued a royal proclamation freeing all slaves who fled to Spanish Florida and accepted conversion and baptism Most went to the area around St Augustine but escaped slaves also reached Pensacola St Augustine had mustered an all-black militia unit defending Spain as early as 1683, Glen Ridge Miami is home to several well-known Roman Catholic Jewish and non-denominational private schools the Archdiocese of Miami operates the city's Catholic private schools which include St Hugh Catholic School St Agatha Catholic School St Theresa School Immaculata-Lasalle High School Monsignor Edward Pace High School Archbishop Curley-Notre Dame High School St Brendan High School among numerous other Catholic elementary and high schools. . Nature Coast 11 External links Class of 1999, Migrants to the region who wanted to develop plantations first proposed draining the Everglades in 1848 but no work of this type was attempted until 1882 Canals were constructed throughout the first half of the 20th century and spurred the South Florida economy prompting land development in 1947 Congress formed the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project which built 1,400 miles (2,300 km) of canals levees and water control devices the Miami metropolitan area grew substantially at this time and Everglades water was diverted to cities Portions of the Everglades were transformed into farmland where the primary crop was sugarcane Approximately 50 percent of the original Everglades has been developed as agricultural or urban areas. Trans-Atlantic trade also resulted in an increasing urbanization: in European countries facing the Atlantic urbanization grew from 8% in 1300 10.1% in 1500 to 24.5% in 1850; in other European countries from 10% in 1300 11.4% in 1500 to 17% in 1850 Likewise GDP doubled in Atlantic countries but rose by only 30% in the rest of Europe by end of the 17th century the volume of the Trans-Atlantic trade had surpassed that of the Mediterranean trade, The geologic formations that have the most influence on the Everglades are the Miami Limestone and the Fort Thompson Formation the Miami Limestone has two facies the Miami Oolite facies which underlies the Atlantic Coastal Ridge from southern Palm Beach County to southern Miami-Dade County is made up of ooids: tiny formations of egg-shaped concentric shells and calcium carbonate formed around a single grain of sand or shell fragment the other facies which underlies the eastern lower Everglades (in Miami-Dade County and part of Monroe County) consists of fossilized bryozoan organisms the unique structure was some of the first material used in housing in early 20th-century South Florida the composition of this sedimentary formation affects the hydrology plant life and wildlife above it: the rock is especially porous and stores water during the dry season in the Everglades and its chemical composition determines the vegetation prevalent in the region the Miami Oolite facies also acts to impede flow of water from the Everglades to the ocean between Fort Lauderdale and Coot Bay (near Cape Sable), The South Terminal building and Concourse J opened on August 29 2007 the new addition is seven stories tall and has 15 international-capable gates and a total floor area of 1.3 million square feet (120,000 m2) including two airline lounges and several offices Concourse H primarily serves Delta and its partners in the SkyTeam alliance (such as Aeromexico Air France and KLM) while Concourse J serves several Star Alliance carriers (including Air Canada Avianca and Lufthansa) as well as oneworld carrier LATAM Airlines and Delta affiliate Virgin Atlantic Prior to 2004 when United Airlines eliminated its Latin America hub at MIA the South Terminal was intended to house United and its partners in the Star Alliance; the airport spent $1 billion on construction before United withdrew its hub.