Brevard County area

Population and density of Brevard County

The Census Bureau estimates that 663,982 people lived in Brevard County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #109 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #11 of 67 in Florida. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 606,616, the population has grown by 57,366 (+9.5%), compared with +8.9% for Florida as a whole.

With 1,015 square miles of land, that is 654 people per square mile (253 per km²), placing Brevard County #269 nationally for density and #13 in Florida. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Florida median is 209. Put another way, there are about 0.978 acres of land per resident.

U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. Estimates are revised each year and are not decennial census counts. Density divides the whole population by the whole county’s land area, so it describes an average, not how settlement is distributed within the county. Population sources and methods.

Cities and towns in Brevard County

16 incorporated places lie at least partly in Brevard County. Together they are home to 426,350 people (64.2%); the other 237,632 (35.8%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Palm Bay city, with 148,092 residents in the county. The county seat, Titusville city, has 49,800 residents. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Grant-Valkaria town grew fastest since then (+32.7%).

Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 subcounty estimates, counting only the part of each place inside Brevard County. Land: 2026 Census Gazetteer, for the whole place even where it extends into other counties. How communities are listed.

Metropolitan area

Brevard County is a central county of the Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area. Brevard County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the metro area has the same 1,015 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #279 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #90 by population.

ZIP codes

31 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Brevard County; 30 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

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ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Lighter codes have less than half of their land in this county. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Brevard County

Brevard County shares a land border with 4 county equivalents. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Osceola County (1,327.3 mi²) and the smallest is Indian River County (502.6 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Brevard County forms a block of 4,849.2 mi² of land, of which it holds 20.9%.

How big is Brevard County compared with U.S. states?

Brevard County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1 times as much. Florida’s county land could hold about 53 areas the size of Brevard County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 31.9 miles (51.3 km) on each side. Real county shapes are rarely square, so this is a scale reference rather than a width or driving distance.

State figures are the sums of each state’s county-equivalent land measurements in the same Census release, so states and counties are compared on the same basis. Published state totals can differ slightly because of rounding. Compare all states · Counties bigger than entire states.

What stands out about Brevard County?

Brevard County has more land than 2,563 of the other 3,221 county equivalents in the dataset.

A median is the middle county-equivalent measurement, not the average of the largest and smallest. All three bars use the same linear scale. Very small areas may appear as a thin sliver; the labels retain their values.

Does including water change its rank?

Using land plus water places Brevard County at #431 nationally by total area, 228 places closer to the top than its land rank. The water assigned to this geography moves it ahead of some county equivalents with more land.

Its water share is 34.8%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 33.6 percentage points higher. This describes the statistical geography’s land/water mix, not flood exposure or developable land.

Closest positions in the national land ranking

These entries sit immediately beside Brevard County in the national ranking. They can be in different states and are not necessarily geographic neighbors.

Calculated from the same Census release as the area table. Total-area order uses original ALAND + AWATER; water shares and chart labels use published square miles. Calculation details.