Brevard County, Florida: Towns, County Offices and How to Reach Them

Brevard County runs 72 miles along Florida's central east coast and holds 16 cities and towns, Kennedy Space Center and Patrick Space Force Base (Brevard County Government).

The Florida Association of Counties lists Brevard at 1,016 square miles with Titusville as its county seat (Florida Association of Counties). The seat and the working center are not the same place: the Board of County Commissioners and the County Manager sit at 2725 Judge Fran Jamieson Way in Viera (Brevard County County Manager), the address the elections office lists as the Viera Government Center (Supervisor of Elections). Titusville keeps a share of county business at 400 South Street, where both the Clerk (Brevard County Clerk) and the Supervisor of Elections (Supervisor of Elections) run offices.

Brevard County Government says its own departments mainly serve the unincorporated areas, the land outside any city limit, with building permits and plan reviews, code enforcement, local road and bridge upkeep and utilities (Brevard County About page). Some services reach every resident, city or not: 9-1-1 and emergency medical services, emergency management, mosquito control, library services and parks and recreation. A resident of Palm Bay or Titusville therefore deals with a city hall for permits and a county office for libraries, elections and property taxes.

The Brevard County Supervisor of Elections lists 16 incorporated places, from Titusville in the north to Palm Bay and Grant-Valkaria in the south (Brevard County Supervisor of Elections).

The full list, as the elections office maps them: Cape Canaveral, Cocoa, Cocoa Beach, Grant-Valkaria, Indialantic, Indian Harbour Beach, Malabar, Melbourne, Melbourne Beach, Melbourne Village, Palm Bay, Palm Shores, Rockledge, Satellite Beach, Titusville and West Melbourne. Melbourne spreads across 21 precincts on the elections map and Palm Bay across 16, while small towns such as Palm Shores (precinct 410), Melbourne Village (precinct 501) and Melbourne Beach (precinct 305) fit inside one precinct each (Supervisor of Elections city and town maps).

Large parts of Brevard are not in any city. Viera, Merritt Island, Mims, Micco and Barefoot Bay are not on the elections office list of 16, so they fall in the unincorporated areas that Brevard County Government says it primarily serves (Brevard County About page). The county home page lists online water and sewer billing for Mims, Barefoot Bay and San Sebastian Woods, three communities whose water and sewer bills go to Brevard County Utility Services (Brevard County home page).

Digital Towns has town guides for the south end of the county: Palm Bay, Melbourne, Malabar, Grant-Valkaria, Micco and Barefoot Bay, plus a South Brevard regional guide that covers the area shared by those places. Each town guide answers the local side (city hall, city parks, neighborhoods) and points back to this county page for the county offices.

Brevard County had 632,780 residents in the U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate (U.S. Census Bureau, table B01003).

The same ACS 2020-2024 5-year release puts Brevard median household income at $78,476 (U.S. Census Bureau, table B19013) and the median value of an owner-occupied home at $339,600 (U.S. Census Bureau, table B25077). These are five-year estimates, not a single-year count.

The older round numbers still circulate. The Brevard County About page says approximately 600,000 residents (Brevard County Government), and the Florida Association of Counties table shows 606,671 (Florida Association of Counties). Both sit more than 25,000 people below the ACS 2020-2024 figure, so a Brevard grant application, school project or business plan that needs a current number should cite the Census table and its vintage, not the county web page.

The Board of County Commissioners, elected from five districts, sets Brevard County policy and appoints a County Manager to run daily operations (Brevard County Board of County Commissioners).

The County Manager is Jim Liesenfelt, reachable at (321) 633-2001 in Building C of the Viera Government Center, 2725 Judge Fran Jamieson Way, Viera, FL 32940; Tad Calkins and Jill Hayes serve as Assistant County Managers (Brevard County County Manager). The county's general line is (321)-633-2000, with 711 Florida Relay for callers who need it (Brevard County Government).

Brevard County Government has 2,350 employees, and its 24 county offices are grouped into four parts: Community Services (housing, libraries, parks, tourism, transit services and the UF/IFAS Extension), Development and Environmental (mosquito control, natural resources, planning, public works, solid waste, utilities and the Valkaria Airport), Public Safety (emergency management, fire rescue and the medical examiner) and Support Services (Brevard County About page). The district lookup map on the commissioners page tells a resident which of the five commissioners represents an address (Brevard County Commission).

Several elected offices sit outside the commission and answer to voters directly: the Clerk of Courts, the Property Appraiser, the School Board, the Sheriff's Office, the Supervisor of Elections and the State Attorney of the 18th Judicial Circuit (Brevard County Government). Last verified: October 15, 2026, on the Brevard County website.

Property tax bills come from the Brevard County Tax Collector, homestead exemptions from the Property Appraiser, court records from the Clerk and voting from the Supervisor of Elections; the Clerk and the elections office both keep offices from Titusville to Palm Bay.

Paying early saves money in Brevard. The Tax Collector mails statements on or about November 1 and allows a 4% discount for the first 30 days after the original mailing date, then 3% in December, 2% in January, 1% in February and 0% in March; taxes become delinquent April 1, when a 3% minimum mandatory charge is added (Brevard County Tax Collector).

The Supervisor of Elections keeps four in-person offices open 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Monday through Friday: the Titusville Government Complex-North at 400 South Street, Suite 1-F; the Viera Government Center, Building C, Suite 105; the South Brevard Service Complex at 1515 Sarno Road, Building A, in Melbourne; and the Palm Bay Service Complex at 450 Cogan Drive SE (Brevard County Supervisor of Elections). The Clerk keeps the same 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM hours in Viera, Titusville and Melbourne, but the Palm Bay Clerk office closes between 11:30 AM and 1:30 PM (Brevard County Clerk of Court), a detail worth checking before a lunch-hour trip down Cogan Drive.

The Brevard County Emergency Management Office in Rockledge plans for storms and disasters countywide and sends address-based warnings through the AlertBrevard system (Brevard County Emergency Management).

The office is led by Director John Scott and is reached at (321) 637-6670 or at 1751 Huntington Lane, Rockledge, FL 32955 (Brevard County Emergency Management Office). Its hazard list reflects the Space Coast: next to storm surge, tropical cyclones, tornados, wildfire and tsunami, it carries a launch anomaly entry and a nuclear accident entry.

AlertBrevard is the sign-up that matters most. Residents who register phone numbers or email addresses receive automated notices about boil-water orders, shelter-in-place or evacuation orders and law enforcement activity for the address they register (Brevard County Emergency Management). The county home page describes AlertBrevard as covering boil water notices, wildfires and weather watches and warnings (Brevard County home page), so one registration covers a Palm Bay brush fire and a Merritt Island storm alike.

Brevard voters decide on the November 2026 ballot whether to renew the Indian River Lagoon half-cent sales tax for ten more years (Brevard County lagoon program).

The lagoon question asks whether Brevard County should renew its existing lagoon half-cent sales tax for ten years, keep all revenue in a trust fund for lagoon projects, and continue citizen committee oversight and annual independent audits (Brevard County lagoon program). The program pays for sewer and septic upgrades, muck removal and other projects that cut nitrogen and phosphorus reaching the lagoon. The Property Appraiser's exemptions page carries a notice on Amendment 3, major homestead exemption changes on the November 3 ballot (Brevard County Property Appraiser). For mail voters, the Supervisor of Elections sets Thursday, October 22 at 5:00 p.m. as the last day to request a mail ballot for the 2026 General Election (Brevard County Supervisor of Elections).

Closer to the Viera Government Center, Brevard County Public Works starts adding left-turn lanes and a traffic signal at Stadium Parkway and Cuddington Drive near Viera Elementary on Monday, Oct. 19, with milling and resurfacing done at night (Brevard County Commission news).

The Brevard County section guides on Digital Towns hold the county detail. The government section is the largest, with guides on the Tax Collector offices, paying property taxes, the homestead exemption, the homestead assessment cap and portability, TRIM notices, value adjustment board appeals, the Clerk of Court, the 18th Judicial Circuit courts, commission districts, the county budget, permits and zoning in unincorporated Brevard, vehicle tags and boat registration, marriage licenses and passports. The safety section covers AlertBrevard, emergency management, fire rescue, hurricane shelters and the special needs registry, mobile home evacuation, sandbags and the Sheriff's Office. Other sections cover the 2026 general election and voting, the Indian River Lagoon sales tax, mosquito control and the Environmentally Endangered Lands program, county water and sewer, unincorporated curbside trash, landfills and household hazardous waste, Space Coast Area Transit, Brevard Public Schools, South Brevard boat ramps and EEL sanctuaries, where to watch rocket launches, fertilizer and watering rules, and county jobs.