[6] Lauderhill was one of two developments (the other in New York) that began largely as off-the-shelf architectural designs which had been available to the public at Macy's department store.

Following a group of approximately 200 of the homes constructed in Montauk, New York in 1963 and 1964, the same developer, Herbert Sadkin[7][8] of the New York-based All-State Properties[6] reprised his success in New York, building a series of similar homes in Florida, calling the development Lauderhill.

In 2003, the New York Times described the Macy's homes: The package deal included a 730- to 1,200-square-foot house on a 75-by-100-foot lot, as well as state-of-the art appliances, furniture, housewares and everything else a family would need for a weekend in the sun, including toothbrushes and toilet paper.

Up until the late 1980s-early 1990s, Lauderhill was mostly a retirement community for Jews and a second home for snowbirds (especially in the Inverrary neighborhood).

[9] It is now home to mostly Jamaicans, West Indians, and African Americans, but it still has a sizeable white, Jewish, and Hispanic population in the Northwest section and the Inverrary neighborhood, located north of Oakland Park Boulevard and east of University Drive).

[11] As of the 2020 United States census, there were 74,482 people, 24,036 households, and 15,760 families residing in the city.

[21] As of the 2010 United States census, there were 66,887 people, 24,265 households, and 16,598 families residing in the city.

Other major West Indian populations were born in Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Dominica, The Bahamas, Guyana, U.S. Virgin Islands, and other Caribbean nations.

[23] As of 2000[update], Lauderhill had the highest percentage of residents of Jamaican ancestry in the United States, at 20.11% of the city's population,[24] and the percentage of Haitian residents in the United States, at 12.9% of the city's population [25] On November 9, 2007, in the Central Broward Park, the Main Event cricket field, owned by Broward County, was opened.

On May 22, 2010, it became the first ground to host an international between two full members of the ICC (New Zealand and Sri Lanka) on U.S. soil after the games' World governing body gave its certification.