Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Pembroke Pines, FL

Pembroke Pines was officially incorporated on January 16, 1960 - and the incorporation vote itself, all 425 ballots, was famously cast in a resident's carport.

It began as a village of less than a square mile, became a city on May 22, 1961, and in 1980 a western annexation from Flamingo Road to U.S. 27 doubled its size at a stroke.

The name combines Pembroke Road - a road named for British landowner Sir Edward J. Reed, a former Member of Parliament for the County of Pembroke - with the pine trees that grew along it, a name suggested by the city's first mayor, Walter Smith Kipnis.

The land beneath today's subdivisions was once dairy country, including the Waldrep Dairy Farm, one of the largest dairy farms in Florida.

In 1943, during World War II, local dairy farmer Henry D. Perry sold 640 acres to the United States Navy for a flight-training field that is still in use today as North Perry Airport.

Pembroke Pines had 171,178 residents in the 2020 Census, making it the second-most populous city in Broward County, and estimates put its population near 176,714 by July 2025.

The city has about 64,875 households averaging 2.66 people each, with a median owner-occupied home value of about $439,500.

Hurricane Andrew in 1992 pushed thousands of southern Miami-Dade residents north into Broward, and Pembroke Pines ballooned from 65,452 people in 1990 to more than 150,000 by 2011.

Broward County's C.B. Smith Park, at Pines Boulevard and Flamingo Road, came inside the city limits with the 1980 annexation and remains one of its signature green spaces.

Pembroke Pines sits 22 miles north of Miami and is the fourth-most populous city in the Miami metropolitan area, with the Everglades defining its western edge.