In the early 1960s a young developer named Ken Behring came from the Midwest and bought land where he could, creating an active adult community of two-bedroom maintenance-free homes.

[7] The city's early leaders, hoping to preserve Tamarac as a bedroom community, allowed Fort Lauderdale to annex commercial pockets, forever losing land that might have bolstered the city's coffers.

In the late 1970s, the city de-annexed a long line of commercial buildings from State Road 7 all the way to Northwest 31 Avenue, but it went along with Behring's vision of Tamarac as a bedroom community.

The city's current eastern boundaries narrow to a sliver from Northwest 31 to 37 Avenues, then widen to the south.

[9] Behring also named a subdivision he built in the Pinellas Park area, the "Mainlands of Tamarac By-the-Gulf".

[18] Over the years, the multicultural population has expanded in Tamarac, such as people from Latin American and Caribbean ancestry.

[19] It also had the thirty-second-highest percentage of Jamaicans in the U.S., (tied with Royal Palm Beach and Goulds) at 4.1% of all residents.

[33] Much of Tamarac is zoned to J. P. Taravella High School in Coral Springs,[34] and Piper High School in Sunrise,[35] with Taravella serving northern areas and Piper serving southern areas.

[37][38] The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami operates Saint Malachy School in Tamarac.