Brevard County
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US state : | Florida |
Administrative headquarters : | Titusville |
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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 |
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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 | |||
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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 |
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.
Places in Brevard County
Brevard County locations with 2010 census population :
Cities :
- Cape Canaveral - 9,912 inhabitants
- Cocoa - 17,140 inhabitants
- Cocoa Beach - 11,231 residents
- Indian Harbor Beach - 8,225 residents
- Melbourne - 76,068 residents
- Palm Bay - 103,190 residents
- Rockledge - 24,926 residents
- Satellite Beach - 10,109 residents
- Titusville ( County Seat ) - 43,761 residents
- West Melbourne - 18,355 residents
Towns :
- Grant-Valkaria - 3.850 inhabitants
- Indialantic - 2,720 inhabitants
- Malabar - 2,757 inhabitants
- Melbourne Beach - 3,101 residents
- Melbourne Village - 662 residents
- Palm Shores - 900 inhabitants
- Cocoa West - 5,925 residents
- June Park - 4,094 residents
- Merritt Island - 34,743 residents
- Micco - 9,052 inhabitants
- Mims - 7,058 inhabitants
- Patrick Air Force Base - 1,222 residents
- Port St. John - population 12,267
- Sharpes - 3,411 residents
- South Patrick Shores - 5,875 residents
- Viera East - 10,757 residents
- Viera West - 6,641 inhabitants
Islands
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ GNIS-ID: 295749. Retrieved on February 22, 2011 (English).
- ↑ CPH-T-5. Population Change for Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas in the United States and Puerto Rico: 2000 to 2010. Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
- ↑ US Census Bureau - Census of Population and Housing . Retrieved March 15, 2011
- ↑ Extract from Census.gov . Retrieved February 14, 2011
- ↑ census.gov (2000) ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( MS Excel ; 26 kB) Accessed March 31, 2012
- ^ Extract from census.gov (2010) , accessed on March 31, 2012
- ^ Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 . United States Census Bureau . Retrieved February 17, 2014.
- ↑ Language distribution 2010 . Modern Language Association . Archived from the original on August 15, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 17, 2014.
Coordinates: 28 ° 18 ′ N , 80 ° 42 ′ W