Grant-Valkaria, Florida: Town Guide

Grant-Valkaria is a rural town in southern Brevard County strung along U.S. 1 and the Indian River Lagoon, minutes from Sebastian Inlet.

The Census Bureau 2024 place gazetteer lists Grant-Valkaria town with 27.227 square miles of land and 3.033 square miles of water (Census gazetteer). The Town of Grant-Valkaria rounds that to approximately 30 square miles and counts 5 miles of Scenic Highway frontage on the Indian River Lagoon, located minutes from Sebastian Inlet (Grant-Valkaria recreation page). Thousands of acres of that land are pine woodland and oak hammock held as preserve.

U.S. 1, which FDOT lists as State Road 5, runs through Grant-Valkaria, and FDOT is planning a signal where it meets Valkaria Road (FDOT U.S. 1 at Valkaria Road). Brevard County lists Grant-Valkaria in County Commission District 3 alongside Palm Bay, Malabar, Melbourne, Micco and Barefoot Bay (Brevard County District 3).

Small planes use Valkaria Airport, which Brevard County owns and operates. It has two intersecting 4,000-foot runways, 10/28 and 14/32, and 95 full-size hangars, and the airport office is at #1 Pilots' Place, phone 321-952-4590 (Valkaria Airport, Brevard County). Valkaria Airport weather comes from an on-site Super AWOS on 119.525 MHz (Valkaria Airport weather).

Grant-Valkaria had an estimated 4,921 residents with a median age of 59.7 in the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) 2020-2024 5-year estimates (ACS 2024 DP05 table).

Grant-Valkaria is an older, owner-occupied town. In the same release, 41.4 percent of Grant-Valkaria residents were 65 or older (ACS 2024 DP05 table for Grant-Valkaria). Median household income in Grant-Valkaria was $119,583 (ACS 2024 DP03 table), and workers averaged a 32.8 minute trip to work.

The survey counted 2,207 housing units in Grant-Valkaria, 1,978 of them occupied (ACS 2024 DP04 table). Of the occupied homes, 97.4 percent were owner occupied, and the median value of an owner-occupied Grant-Valkaria home was $550,400. The Census Bureau published no median rent figure for Grant-Valkaria in this release.

The Grant-Valkaria demographics section covers housing, commuting and veterans in more depth.

Grant-Valkaria is governed by a seven-member Town Council, led by Mayor Lisette Kolar, that meets at Town Hall, 1449 Valkaria Road, a building open Monday through Thursday and closed on Fridays.

The Grant-Valkaria Town Council has six council members and one mayor, all elected at large to four-year terms (Grant-Valkaria Town Council). Mike Bradvarevic is vice mayor in Seat 5; the other seats are held by Tom Sammon (Seat 1), Rick Hood (Seat 2), Dan Faden (Seat 3), Brent Jackson (Seat 4) and Dan Robino (Seat 6). The council meets the second Wednesday of every month at 6 p.m. in the Council Chambers at 1449 Valkaria Road.

Grant-Valkaria Town Hall keeps office hours of 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and is closed Fridays, so a Friday errand to Valkaria Road finds the doors shut. The phone is 321-951-1380 and the fax 321-956-5660.

The town history page calls Grant-Valkaria the newest town in Brevard County (Grant-Valkaria history). Voters approved incorporation in a special election on July 25, 2006, by 1,149 votes (66.03 percent) to 591 (33.97 percent), with 1,741 of 2,436 registered voters casting ballots (Brevard County Supervisor of Elections). County services come from Brevard County; Grant-Valkaria sits in District 3, represented by Commissioner Kim Adkinson, phone 321-633-2075 (District 3 office). Last verified: October 15, 2026, on the Town of Grant-Valkaria website.

Grant-Valkaria life centers on the lagoon and the woods: four Brevard County boat landings on the Indian River, the 39.45-acre Grant-Valkaria Community Park at Town Hall, and the Grant Seafood Festival each March.

Grant-Valkaria Community Park is a shaded 39.45-acre park around Town Hall, open dawn to dusk (Grant-Valkaria recreation page). It holds Payton's Playspace for younger children, the 9-hole Red Berry Hill disc golf course, the one-mile Bird Island Trail around the middle lake, and two catch and release fishing lakes; no fishing is allowed in the middle lake.

Every boat ramp in Grant-Valkaria is maintained by Brevard County. Christenson's Landing, at 5355 U.S. 1, is a 3.92-acre park with a six-lane saltwater boat ramp, two fishing piers, restrooms and free parking (Christenson’s Landing, Brevard County Parks). The First Street Boat Ramp is a 0.54-acre site with a one-lane ramp, a wooden dock and parking for 30 cars and six trailers but no restrooms. John Jorgensen Landing has a two-lane ramp and three docks. Fisherman's Landing, a 7.48-acre park on the river, has a 200-foot fishing pier and allows hand-carried canoes and kayaks but no motorized launching.

Fisherman's Landing also holds the Grant Historical House, originally erected in 1916; information comes from the Grant Historical Society at 321-723-8543 (Grant-Valkaria recreation page). The town's history page traces Grant-Valkaria to a fishing settlement: the Valkaria post office opened in 1890 and the Grant post office on August 4, 1891, and the Grant store that opened in 1894 is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (Grant-Valkaria history).

The next Grant Seafood Festival is set for March 6, 2027, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and March 7, 2027, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Grant Seafood Festival). Admission and parking are free, the festival in Grant is run entirely by volunteers, and proceeds go to the Grant Community Library, the Grant Historical House, the Grant Community Center and a scholarship fund. Dogs other than service animals, coolers, tents and umbrellas are not allowed.

The main changes in Grant-Valkaria are two new FDOT traffic signals on U.S. 1, at Valkaria Road and at 1st Street, both scheduled to go to bid on August 3, 2027, and the town election on November 3, 2026.

At U.S. 1 and Valkaria Road, FDOT is designing a new traffic signal with intersection lighting; design is budgeted at $475,000 and construction at an estimated $1.3 million (FDOT project 454250-1). The Town of Grant-Valkaria notes that a 2023 study recommended the signal to reduce serious collisions and delays for drivers turning north onto U.S. 1 from Valkaria Road at peak times, and that the project adds a new crosswalk on U.S. 1 (Town of Grant-Valkaria notice, July 20, 2026).

A second signal is planned at U.S. 1 and 1st Street in Grant-Valkaria, with design budgeted at $530,000 and construction estimated at $1.2 million (FDOT project 454251-1). Both FDOT projects describe the signals as new, so neither intersection has a traffic signal before construction.

At Town Hall, the Grant-Valkaria Town Council page lists the next town election as November 3, 2026 (Grant-Valkaria Town Council). Terms are staggered: the town's qualifying notice for the November 5, 2024 election listed Town Council seats 2, 4 and 6 (Grant-Valkaria qualifying notice). The Grant-Valkaria elections guide covers candidates and voting.

Evacuation orders and storm alerts for Grant-Valkaria come from Brevard County Emergency Management at 1751 Huntington Lane, Rockledge (321-637-6670), through the AlertBrevard notification system.

AlertBrevard is a location-based system that sends automated notices about evacuation orders, shelter-in-place orders, boil-water notices and weather watches and warnings to the phone numbers and email addresses registered with it, based on the address given, such as a Grant-Valkaria home address (Brevard County Emergency Management). The county general line is 321-633-2000.

Grant-Valkaria takes part in the National Flood Insurance Program as community 120224, under a current effective flood map dated January 29, 2021, and entered the regular program on November 20, 2007 (FEMA NFIP community status). FEMA lists no Community Rating System class and no community flood insurance discount for Grant-Valkaria.

Brevard County Emergency Management lists flooding, storm surge, tropical cyclones, tornados and wildfire among the hazard types it plans for, and its pages on assessing risk, building a disaster supply kit and making a plan are the starting point for a Grant-Valkaria household (Brevard County hazard guidance). The official flood zone for a Grant-Valkaria parcel is on the FEMA map dated January 29, 2021.

Each Grant-Valkaria section on Digital Towns goes deeper than this profile, and the table below maps common Grant-Valkaria questions to the key fact and the section that answers it.

The Grant-Valkaria government section holds the town council and Town Hall guide and the elections guide; transportation holds the Valkaria Airport guide; demographics holds the census profile, housing and home values, commuting and remote work, and veterans guides; history holds the Grant-Valkaria history, Jorgensen's General Store and Grant Historical House guides; and events holds the Grant Seafood Festival guide.