were 83.0 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $33,294, and the median income for a family was $41,693. Males had a median income of $34,773 versus $28,781 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $25,392. About 11.1% of families and 13.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 14.2% of those under age 18 and 15.8% of those age 65 or over. As of 2000, speakers of English as a first language accounted for 47.42% of residents, while Spanish made up 32.70%, Russian was at 3.35%, Yiddish was at 2.96%, Hebrew at 2.92%, and the mother tongue of French Creole was 2.41% of the population's speakers. Both Portuguese and French tied with 2.11% of the populace. Arabic made up 0.74% of speakers, while both Chinese and German were spoken by 0.55% of all residents. Also, both Greek and Hungarian were a mother tongue of 0.52% of the population. As of 2000, Ojus had the fifty-sixth-highest percentage of Cuban residents in the US, with 6.77% of the populace. It had the thirty-fifth-highest percentage of Colombian residents in the US, at 3.71% of the population, and the fifty-first-highest percentage of Haitian residents in the US, at 3.0% of its population (tied with Avon Park, Fla. and Haines City, Fla.) It also had the nineteenth-most Peruvians in the US, at 2.29%, while it had the twentieth-highest percentage of Brazilians, at 1.60% of all residents (tied with four other US areas.) Ojus's Israeli community had the seventeenth-highest percentage of residents, which was at 1.70% (tied with Sunny Isles Beach.) It is also home to the 113th-highest percentage of Dominican residents in the US, at 1.42% of the population, while its Romanian community was the twenty-first-highest percentage in the US, and accounted for 1.0% of all residents (tied with Davison, Michigan, Thompson, Ohio and Viola, N.Y.) Education Miami-Dade County Public Schools operates public schools. Ojus Elementary School is in Ojus. Students are zoned to Krop High School. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami operates Catholic schools. St. Lawrence K-8 School is in Ojus. Samuel Scheck Hillel Community Day School is in Ojus. References External links Ojus Elementary School Census-designated places in Miami-Dade County, Florida Unincorporated communities in Miami-Dade County, Florida Census-designated places in Florida Unincorporated communities in Florida Former municipalities in Florida