Brickell Key

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title: "Brickell Key" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["artificial-islands-of-florida", "islands-of-miami", "islands-of-miami-dade-county,-florida", "neighborhoods-in-miami", "planned-communities-in-florida", "brickell-key"] topic_path: "general/artificial-islands-of-florida" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brickell_Key" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Brickell Key
other_name	Claughton Island
native_name
settlement_type	Neighborhood of Miami
total_type
image_skyline	Brickell Key from north 20100211.jpg
imagesize	300px
image_caption	Brickell Key from the northwest, February 2010
image_map	Miami neighborhoodsmap.png
mapsize	300px
map_caption	Brickell Key within the Brickell neighborhood of Miami city proper
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	United States
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	Florida
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Miami-Dade County
subdivision_type3	City
subdivision_name3	Miami
leader_title	City of Miami Commissioner
leader_name	Ken Russell
leader_title1	Miami-Dade Commissioner
leader_name1	Joe Carollo
leader_title2	House of Representatives
leader_name2	Christopher Benjamin (D)
leader_title3	State Senate
leader_name3	Ileana Garcia (R)
leader_title4	U.S. House
leader_name4	María Elvira Salazar (R)
elevation_footnotes
elevation_ft	3
population_as_of	2010
population_total	2,189
timezone	EST
utc_offset	-05
coordinates
postal_code_type	ZIP Code
postal_code	33131
area_codes	305, 786
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History

In 1896, Henry Flagler organized a 9 ft deep channel dug from the Miami River mouth, creating two islands in the process. In 1943, Edward N. Claughton, Sr. bought the Brickell Key islands and other land to combine them into a 44 acre triangle-shaped tract. In the late 1970s, Swire Properties bought most of the island from Claughton. Since then the island has been built out with some of the tallest buildings in Miami, and the Mandarin Oriental, Miami hotel, mainly during the condo "Manhattanization" wave of the 2000s.

Demographics

As of 2020, the population of Brickell Key had 20,558 people (excluding the demographics and population of Brickell and Mary Brickell Village). The ZIP code for Brickell is 33131. The area covers 0.162 sqmi. As of 2020, there were 10,412 males and 10,146 females. The median age for males was 33.9 years old, while the median age for females was 31.9 years old. The average household size had 1.7 people, while the average family size had 2.5 members. The percentage of married-couple families (among all households) was 30.6%, while the percentage of married-couple families with children (among all households) was 8.2%, and the percentage of single-mother households (among all households) was 1.4%. The percentage of never-married males 15 years old and over was 24.4%, while the percentage of never-married females 15 years old and over was 16.4%.

, people who speak English not well or not at all, made up 5.9% of the population. The percentage of residents born in Florida was 14.9%, the percentage of people born in another U.S. state was 29.1%, and the percentage of native residents but born outside the U.S. was 4.7%, while the percentage of foreign born residents was 51.3%.

Gallery

Brickell Key 20100206.jpg|Brickell Key from the south, February 2010 Miami, Florida, Skyline 4.jpg|Brickell Key and Brickell

References

References

1. "Henry Flagler Biography".
2. Piket, Casey. (2013-01-14). "Brickell Key on Claughton Island".
3. (February 12, 2008). "Brickell Key Home Page (archived version)".
4. "Demographics of Brickell Key Miami, FL.". [[city-data]].

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