Brevard County

administration
Brevard County Courthouse
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US state :	Florida
Administrative headquarters :	Titusville
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Board of County Commissioners 2725 Judge Fran Jamieson Way Viera, Florida 32940
Foundation :	1844
Made up from:	Columbia County
Area code :	001 351
Demographics
Residents :	543,376 (2010)
Population density :	206.1 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	4032 km²
Water surface :	1395 km²
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Website : countygovt.brevard.fl.us

The Brevard County is a county in the US state of Florida of the United States . The county seat is Titusville .

geography

The area of the district is 4032 square kilometers . Of this, 1395 square kilometers are water surfaces (34.6 percent). The climate is subtropical. The annual average temperature is about 22 degrees

The county is managed by the Office of Management and Budget for statistical purposes under the name Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville Metropolitan Statistical Area .

history

Notes on the early settlement of the region from the 6th millennium BC Chr. Which provides archeological site Windover in Titusville, where in the swamp-like Windover bog 1982, the remains of at least 168 bog bodies unearthed were. The district was founded in 1844 under the name of Saint Lucia County . In 1855 it was changed to Brevard County. It was named after Theodore Washington Brevard , state controller in Florida from 1854 to 1860. 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 . The area code seems to have been selected to match: 321, as in 3… 2… 1… Blast Off!

Further educational institutions

Brevard Community College in Cocoa
Keizer College in Melbourne
Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne
Everest University in Melbourne
Herzing College - Melbourne, Florida in Melbourne

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1860	246	-
1870	1216	394.3%
1880	1478	21.5%
1890	3401	130.1%
1900	5158	51.7%
1910	4717	-8.5%
1920	8505	80.3%
1930	13,283	56.2%
1940	16,142	21.5%
1950	23,653	46.5%
1960	111,435	371.1%
1970	230.006	106.4%
1980	272,959	18.7%
1990	398.978	46.2%
2000	476.230	19.4%
2010	543.376	14.1%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

The William H. Gleason House in Melbourne, listed on the NRHP

The James Wadsworth Rossetter House in Eau Gallie, listed on the NRHP

According to the 2010 census , there were 543,367 people in 269,864 households in Brevard County. The population density was 206.1 inhabitants per square kilometer. Ethnically, the population was composed of 83.0% white, 10.1% African American , 0.4% Native American and 1.0% Asian Americans . 1.8% were members of other races and 2.6% of different races. 8.1% of the population was made up of Hispanics or Latinos .

In 2010 children under 18 years of age and 34.2% of all households lived in 26.4% of all households with persons at least 65 years of age. 64.6% of households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring). The average household size was 2.33 people and the average family size was 2.84 people.

22.3% of the population were younger than 20 years old, 20.7% were 20 to 39 years old, 30.0% were 40 to 59 years old, and 27.0% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 46 years. 49.0% of the population were male and 51.0% were female.

The median income for a household in the 49,099 USD , while 12.5% of the population lived below the poverty line.

In 2010, English was the mother tongue of 90.20% of the population, 5.29% spoke Spanish and 4.51% had another mother tongue.