Goulds is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.

The area was originally populated as the result of a stop on the Florida East Coast Railroad.

The community was named after its operator, Lyman Gould, who cut trees for railroad ties.

Early on, Goulds had a reputation as a rough town, with several saloons serving itinerant field workers.

[5] Cauley Square, a former railway town located in Goulds, was restored by Mary Ann Ballard after she purchased the village in 1949.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 11,446 people, 3,336 households, and 2,371 families residing in the CDP.

As of 2000, speakers of English as a first language accounted for 83.54% of residents, while Spanish made up 15.42%, and French Creole was at 1.02% of the population.

[17] It also had the thirty-second most Jamaicans in the US, at 4.10% (tied with Tamarac and Royal Palm Beach,)[18] while it had the fifty-fourth highest percentage of Haitians, at 2.70% of all residents (tied with Jewett City, Connecticut, Georgetown, Delaware and Elizabeth, NJ.