{"id":968,"date":"2023-02-03T08:30:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T08:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=968"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:25:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:25:04","slug":"brevard-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/brevard-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Brevard County, Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brevard County is a county in Florida, United States, about 50 miles east of Orlando on the Atlantic coast. It had a population of 606,612 at the 2020 census, an estimated 663,982 by 2025, and covers 1,016 square miles (2,630 km2) of land centred near 28\u00b018\u2032N 80\u00b042\u2032W.<\/p>\n<p>Titusville is the county seat; its postal code is 32780. The county holds 10 cities and 6 incorporated towns, plus at least 8 sizable unincorporated communities the Census Bureau tracks as CDPs. Florida has no civil townships, so places here are not grouped that way. The county runs on Eastern Time, and its FIPS code is 12009.<\/p>\n<h2>Towns &amp; Villages in Brevard County<\/h2>\n<p>Brevard County has 24 named places with reliable population counts: 16 incorporated cities and towns and 8 unincorporated census-designated places (CDPs) with no local government of their own. CDP stands for census designated place.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tv-table-scroll\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Pop.<\/th>\n<th>ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Palm Bay<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>119,760<\/td>\n<td>32905&ndash;32911<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Melbourne<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>84,678<\/td>\n<td>32901, 32904, 32934&ndash;32936, 32940<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Titusville<\/td>\n<td>City &middot; seat<\/td>\n<td>48,789<\/td>\n<td>32780&ndash;32783, 32796<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Merritt Island<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>34,518<\/td>\n<td>32952&ndash;32954<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Viera<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>28,375<\/td>\n<td>32940<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Rockledge<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>27,678<\/td>\n<td>32955, 32956<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>West Melbourne<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>25,924<\/td>\n<td>32904, 32912<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Port St. John<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>23,474<\/td>\n<td>32927<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cocoa<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>19,041<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Micco<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>9,574<\/td>\n<td>32976<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cocoa Beach<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>11,354<\/td>\n<td>32931<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Satellite Beach<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>11,226<\/td>\n<td>32937<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cape Canaveral<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>9,972<\/td>\n<td>32920<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Indian Harbour Beach<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>9,019<\/td>\n<td>32937<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mims<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>7,336<\/td>\n<td>32754<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cocoa West<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>5,939<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Grant-Valkaria<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>4,509<\/td>\n<td>32949<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Melbourne Beach<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>3,231<\/td>\n<td>32951<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sharpes<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>3,115<\/td>\n<td>32959<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Indialantic<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>3,010<\/td>\n<td>32903<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Malabar<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>2,949<\/td>\n<td>32950<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Palm Shores<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>1,200<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Scottsmoor<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>692<\/td>\n<td>32754<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Melbourne Village<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>681<\/td>\n<td>32904<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Two pairs are easy to mix up. Satellite Beach and Indian Harbour Beach are separate cities that share ZIP code 32937. Viera is reported by the Census Bureau as two adjacent CDPs, Viera East (11,687) and Viera West (16,688); the 28,375 figure above is the combined total for the planned community as a whole. Scottsmoor and Mims also share a ZIP, 32754, despite being distinct communities roughly 8 miles apart along US 1.<\/p>\n<h2>ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>32780 &mdash; Titusville (also serves 32781&ndash;32783 and 32796, all Titusville-area codes)<\/li>\n<li>32901 &mdash; Melbourne (the county&#8217;s most populous ZIP, plus 32904, 32934&ndash;32936 and 32940 for other Melbourne neighborhoods)<\/li>\n<li>32905 &mdash; Palm Bay (Palm Bay uses the full 32905&ndash;32911 block)<\/li>\n<li>32952 &mdash; Merritt Island (also 32953 and 32954)<\/li>\n<li>32955 &mdash; Rockledge (also 32956)<\/li>\n<li>32927 &mdash; Port St. John<\/li>\n<li>32976 &mdash; Micco (shared with Sebastian in neighboring Indian River County)<\/li>\n<li>32931 &mdash; Cocoa Beach<\/li>\n<li>32937 &mdash; Satellite Beach and Indian Harbour Beach<\/li>\n<li>32920 &mdash; Cape Canaveral<\/li>\n<li>32754 &mdash; Mims and Scottsmoor<\/li>\n<li>32949 &mdash; Grant-Valkaria<\/li>\n<li>32951 &mdash; Melbourne Beach<\/li>\n<li>32959 &mdash; Sharpes<\/li>\n<li>32903 &mdash; Indialantic<\/li>\n<li>32950 &mdash; Malabar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cocoa, Cocoa West and Palm Shores have no ZIP code exclusively their own; mail there is delivered under a neighboring city&#8217;s code, and the postal service treats them as parts of the Cocoa or Rockledge delivery areas rather than as separate ZIPs.<\/p>\n<h2>Geography<\/h2>\n<p>Brevard County sits on Florida&#8217;s central Atlantic coast, a low, flat strip of barrier islands, lagoons and mainland pine flatwoods. Of its 1,557 square miles, 1,016 are land and 541 are water &mdash; about 35 percent, unusually high for a Florida county, because the county is split lengthwise by the Indian River Lagoon and the Banana River, with Merritt Island sitting between them and a string of barrier-island beach towns facing the Atlantic. The lagoon system runs the county&#8217;s full 72-mile length and is one of the most biodiverse estuaries in North America.<\/p>\n<p>Volusia County lies to the north, Orange and Osceola counties to the west, and Indian River County to the south. <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/volusia-county\/\">Volusia County<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/orange-county-florida\/\">Orange County<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/osceola-county\/\">Osceola County<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/indian-river-county\/\">Indian River County<\/a> all border Brevard directly.<\/p>\n<h2>Demographics<\/h2>\n<p>Brevard County had a population of 606,612 at the 2020 census, and the latest estimate puts the county near 663,982 residents by 2025. Palm Bay and Melbourne are by far the two largest communities, together holding well over a third of the county&#8217;s population. Median household income runs $78,476, slightly above Florida&#8217;s statewide figure of $73,311. Population density works out to roughly 597 people per square mile of land, moderate for a coastal Florida county, with growth concentrated in Palm Bay and West Melbourne on the mainland side and in the Viera planned community around the county&#8217;s midpoint.<\/p>\n<h2>Economy &amp; Local Life<\/h2>\n<p>Health care and social assistance employs the most workers in the county, about 39,747 people, followed by manufacturing at 35,408 and retail trade at 33,228. NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, with roughly 17,701 civil servants and contractors as of 2025, anchors the county&#8217;s aerospace identity and gave Brevard its &#8220;Space Coast&#8221; nickname and its 321 area code. Melbourne is home to L3Harris Technologies&#8217; corporate headquarters, along with major aerospace and defense operations for Northrop Grumman, Collins Aerospace and Leonardo DRS, and to Florida Institute of Technology. Health First operates the county&#8217;s main hospital network, based in Rockledge and Melbourne. The county&#8217;s longest-running annual event is the Grant Seafood Festival, held each February since 1966 in the small community of Grant, part of Grant-Valkaria, and it now draws crowds many times the town&#8217;s own population.<\/p>\n<h2>History<\/h2>\n<p>The Florida legislature created St. Lucie County in 1844, splitting it from Mosquito County, then renamed it Brevard County in 1855 for Theodore Washington Brevard, who served as state comptroller from 1854 to 1860. The county&#8217;s boundaries have shifted repeatedly since through later divisions, and little of the original county lies within today&#8217;s Brevard. Titusville, originally settled as Sand Point in 1859 and renamed in 1873, became the county seat and was incorporated as a city in 1887.<\/p>\n<p>On Christmas Eve 1951, a bomb planted under the Mims home of Harry T. Moore, a state NAACP leader and early civil-rights organizer, killed him and fatally wounded his wife Harriette. It was the first assassination of a civil-rights leader in the United States; despite decades of investigation, no one was ever prosecuted. The federal government established the Launch Operations Center on Merritt Island in 1962, renaming it the John F. Kennedy Space Center after the president&#8217;s assassination in November 1963, and the site has run every American crewed launch since.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting There<\/h2>\n<p>Interstate 95 crosses the county north to south through its mainland half. US 1 and State Road A1A run the coastal length of the county, and State Roads 50, 405, 407 and 528 connect the mainland to Merritt Island and the beaches.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Orlando &mdash; about 50 miles west<\/li>\n<li>Daytona Beach &mdash; about 45 miles north<\/li>\n<li>Vero Beach &mdash; about 35 miles south<\/li>\n<li>Orlando International Airport &mdash; about 45 miles west<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Melbourne Orlando International Airport, in the city of Melbourne, is the county&#8217;s own commercial airport with regularly scheduled flights. Orlando International Airport, about 45 miles west, handles the bulk of regional and long-haul traffic. No Amtrak station serves Brevard County directly; the nearest station is in Winter Park, roughly 60 miles west.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Where is Brevard County located?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt sits on Florida&#8217;s central Atlantic coast, about 50 miles east of Orlando, bordered by Volusia, Orange, Osceola and Indian River counties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the population of Brevard County?<\/strong><br \/>\n606,612 at the 2020 census, with a 2025 estimate near 663,982.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How big is Brevard County?<\/strong><br \/>\n1,557 square miles total, of which 1,016 square miles are land and 541 square miles are water.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the county seat of Brevard County?<\/strong><br \/>\nTitusville, incorporated in 1887, is the county seat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many towns and cities are in Brevard County?<\/strong><br \/>\nTen cities and six incorporated towns, plus eight sizable unincorporated communities including Merritt Island, Viera and Port St. John.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What ZIP codes does Brevard County use?<\/strong><br \/>\n32780&#8211;32783 and 32796 for Titusville, 32901&#8211;32941 for Melbourne, 32905&#8211;32911 for Palm Bay, and separate codes for each of the beachside and river cities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is Brevard County called the Space Coast?<\/strong><br \/>\nNASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, which employs about 17,701 civil servants and contractors, has run every American crewed space launch since the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>More counties in this state: <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/category\/florida\/\">Towns and villages in Florida<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brevard County is a county in Florida, United States, about 50 miles east of Orlando on the Atlantic coast. 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