Brevard County, Florida
The Brevard County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida in the United States. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is Titusville.
History
Notes on the early settlement of the region from the 6th millennium BC provides the archeological site at Windover Titusville, where in the swamp -like Windover bog 1982, the remains of at least 168 bog bodies were excavated. The district was founded in 1844 under the name of Saint Lucia County. In 1855, he was changed in Brevard County. It was named after Theodore Washington Brevard, 1854-1860 State Controller in Florida. Brevard County is famous for its astronauts Coast ( Space Coast ), the district is home to the Space Station John F. Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral. To match this, the code of the district seems to be chosen: 321, as 1 in 3 .. 2 .. .. Blast Off!
Further education institutions
- Brevard Community College in Cocoa
- Keiser College in Melbourne
- Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne
- Everest University in Melbourne
- Herzing College - Melbourne, Florida Melbourne
Geography
The area of the district is 4,032 square kilometers. Of these, 1,395 square kilometers of water ( 34.6 percent). The climate is tropical. The temperature average is 24.6 ° C.
Demographic data
1900-1990 2000 2010
According to the census in 2010 lived in Brevard County 543 367 people in 269 864 households. The population density was 206.1 inhabitants per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 83.0 % White, 10.1 % African American, 0.4% Indigenous and 1.0 % Asian Americans. 1.8% were members of other ethnic groups and 2.6% in different ethnic groups. 8.1% of the population were Hispanic or Latino.
In 2010, children under the age of 18 and 34.2 % of all households lived in 26.4 % of all households with persons at least 65 years. 64.6 % of households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or a parent with offspring ). The average size of a household was 2.33 persons and the average family size is 2.84 people.
22.3% of the population were younger than 20 years, 20.7% were 20-39 years old, 30.0% were 40-59 years old and 27.0 % were at least 60 years old. The median age was 46 years. 49.0 % of the population were male and 51.0 % female.
The median income for a household was $ 49,099, while 12.5 % of the population lived below the poverty line.
In 2010, English was the mother tongue of 90.20 % of the population spoke Spanish 5.29% and 4.51% had a different mother tongue.
Places in Brevard County
Places in Brevard County with populations of the census of 2010:
Cities:
- Cape Canaveral - 9,912 inhabitants
- Cocoa - 17,140 inhabitants
- Cocoa Beach - 11,231 inhabitants
- Indian Harbour Beach - 8,225 inhabitants
- Melbourne - 76 068 inhabitants
- Palm Bay - 103 190 inhabitants
- Rockledge - 24,926 inhabitants
- Satellite Beach - 10,109 inhabitants
- Titusville ( County Seat) - 43 761 inhabitants
- West Melbourne - 18,355 inhabitants
Towns:
- Grant - Valkaria - 3,850 inhabitants
- Indialantic - 2,720 inhabitants
- Malabar - 2,757 inhabitants
- Melbourne Beach - 3,101 inhabitants
- Melbourne Village - 662 inhabitants
- Palm Shores - 900 inhabitants
Census-designated places:
- Cocoa West - 5,925 inhabitants
- June Park - 4,094 inhabitants
- Merritt Iceland - 34,743 inhabitants
- Micco - 9,052 inhabitants
- Mims - 7,058 inhabitants
- Patrick Air Force Base - 1,222 inhabitants
- Port St. John - 12,267 inhabitants
- Sharpe - 3,411 inhabitants
- South Patrick Shores - 5,875 inhabitants
- Viera East - 10,757 inhabitants
- Viera West - 6,641 inhabitants
Islands
- Big Iceland
- Big Snag
- Brady Iceland
- Burns Hammock
- Camp Iceland
- Cedar Hammock
- Cucumber Iceland
- Four Islands
- Georges Iceland
- Grange Iceland
- Grant Farm Iceland
- Hail Iceland
- Hammock Hamper
- Happy Hammock
- Harrison Iceland
- Jack Davis Iceland
- Jug Iceland
- Kiwanis Iceland
- Latham Iceland
- Little Snag
- Merritt Iceland
- Middle Indian Field
- Mosier Hammock
- Nesbit Iceland
- North Indian Field
- Onion Farm Iceland
- Pardon Iceland
- Pelican Iceland
- Pepper Hammock
- Picnic Iceland
- Pine Iceland
- Skunk Iceland
- South Indian Field
- Spade Iceland
- Stony Iceland
- Tea Hammock
- Thousand Islands
- Three Cabbage Iceland
- Tortoise Iceland