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Florin is an unincorporated census-designated place (CDP) in southern Sacramento County, governed by the county rather than a city council, within the Sacramento metropolitan area.

Florin grew in the late 1800s as a farming community famous for strawberries and fruit, where Japanese immigrants rose from laborers to landowners and numbered about 2,500 by 1940.

Florin's Japanese American community was uprooted in 1942 when residents were forced into internment camps under Executive Order 9066 and had to sell farms within days, often far below value — and Florin never again became the Japanese American community it had been.

Agricultural inspector Bob Fletcher famously quit his job to farm the land of interned Florin families and saved money for them, returning their farms and profits to them after the war.

Florin counted 52,388 residents at the 2020 census, up from just 9,640 in 1970 — growth of more than fivefold in 50 years.

Florin has about 15,000 households with an average of 3.31 people per household, and only about 56% of its homes are owner-occupied.

Florin is one of California's most diverse suburbs: about 35% of residents are Asian, about 30% are Hispanic or Latino, and more than half of residents speak a language other than English at home.

About 35% of Florin's residents were born outside the United States, reflecting both its historic Japanese settlement and later Hmong and Southeast Asian refugee communities.

Florin covers 8.7 square miles of southern Sacramento County at a density of roughly 6,000 people per square mile.