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Ojus is a census-designated place in northeastern Miami-Dade County, Florida, about 15 miles north-northeast of downtown Miami, bordered by Aventura, North Miami Beach and the Broward County line.

The name 'Ojus' comes from a Seminole word meaning 'plenty' or 'lots of'; Albert Fitch gave the area the name in 1897.

Ojus was once an incorporated town: voters approved incorporation in 1926, but after years of court fights over its charter and bond debt, the Town of Ojus was finally dissolved in 1935.

Nineteenth-century settlers farmed peas, beans, sugar cane and tomatoes along the Oleta River in Ojus, while Seminoles ran a trading post near present-day Greynolds Park to do business with them.

Greynolds Park, established in 1936 as a Civilian Conservation Corps project on 110 acres donated by rock-company owner A.O. Greynolds, hosted acts such as the Grateful Dead in the 1960s and was declared a historic site in 1983.

In 1925, Carl Fischer built the Fulford-Miami Speedway in what is now Ojus's Sky Lake neighborhood - a wooden racetrack billed as the world's fastest - but it was destroyed by the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926.

Ojus had 19,673 residents at the 2020 census, up from 18,036 in 2010, living in 7,882 households.

About 52% of Ojus residents are Hispanic or Latino, and the community's median age is 42.4 years.

Water shapes Ojus: about 16% of the CDP's area is water, the Oleta River drains its eastern side, and many of its neighborhood lakes were dug in the early 1900s for road-building rock.

Children in Ojus attend Ojus Elementary School and are zoned to Krop High School, and the community is also home to the Samuel Scheck Hillel Community Day School.