$54,444. Males had a median income of $35,159 versus $30,178 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $18,962. About 7.0% of families and 8.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8.6% of those under age 18 and 11.3% of those age 65 or over. As of 2000, speakers of Spanish as a first language accounted for 71.34% of residents, while English made up 22.82%, French was at 1.21%, French Creole at 0.94%, Portuguese 0.83%, and Arabic was 0.54% of the population. Tagalog made up 0.49% of the population. As of 2000, The Hammocks had the third-highest percentage of Colombian residents in the US, with 10.02% of the populace. It had the twenty-eighth-highest percentage of Cuban residents in the US, at 17.59% of the population, the fifth-highest percentage of Peruvians in the US, at 3.36%, and the third-highest percentage of Venezuelan residents in the US, at 3.14% of its population (tied with Fontainebleau). It also had the thirteenth-most Nicaraguans in the US, at 2.88%, while it had the fifty-fifth-highest percentage of Dominicans, at 2.46% of all residents, while the Ecuadorian community had the fifty-fifth-highest percentage of residents, which was at 1.10% of the population. References Census-designated places in Miami-Dade County, Florida Census-designated places in Florida Planned communities in Florida