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Kendale Lakes is a census-designated place and suburb of Miami in western Miami-Dade County, located about 15 miles west-southwest of downtown Miami and bordered on the east by the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike.

Kendale Lakes grew up as a classic Miami bedroom community in the 1970s and 1980s, rising from 32,789 residents in 1980 to a peak of 56,901 in 2000.

Kendale Lakes had a population of 55,646 at the 2020 census, with about 19,000 households, and roughly 71% of its homes are owner-occupied.

Kendale Lakes is one of the most Hispanic communities in Florida - about 89% of residents were Hispanic or Latino in the 2020 census, about two-thirds of residents are foreign-born, and Spanish was the first language of more than 82% of residents in 2000.

The community is named for and built around its lakes and the Miccosukee Golf & Country Club, the former Kendale Lakes Country Club, which was bought by the Miccosukee Tribe and is ringed by a coral-rock moat and tree-lined streets.

As of late 2024, Kendale Lakes was home to the last Kmart-branded store in the contiguous United States, a small convenience-format store rather than a big-box department store.

Public schools serving Kendale Lakes include Miami Sunset Senior High School, Howard D. McMillan Middle School and Kendale Lakes Elementary School, whose students are known as the Tigers, and the community also hosts the Archimedean Schools, a Greek-themed K-12 charter program.

Kendale Lakes covers about 8.6 square miles, of which about 6% is water, reflecting the man-made lakes woven through its subdivisions.

The population of Kendale Lakes has been slowly shrinking - it fell slightly in both the 2010 and 2020 censuses - even as greater Miami continued to boom around it.