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Grant-Valkaria had a population of 4,449, and was the 510th most populated city in Florida, as of 2022. [7]In 2021, the median household income in Grant-Valkaria was $82,273 per year, although 6.3% of Grant-Valkaria's population lived in poverty.
Barefoot Bay is an unincorporated, deed-restricted manufactured home community, recreation district, and water and sewer district in southern Brevard County, Florida. The population at the 2010 United States Census was 9,808. Barefoot Bay is the largest manufactured home community in the state of Florida.
County Road 516 (former SR 516 [3]), locally known as Palm Bay Road, is a former state highway in Brevard County, located entirely in Palm Bay. Between CR 509 and State Road 507, it forms the southern borders of the cities of West Melbourne and Melbourne. CR 516 is mostly 6 lanes wide. Palm Bay entrance sign on the overpass of Palm Bay Road
State Attorney, 18th Judicial Circuit - Phil Archer [46] Public Defender, 18th Judicial Circuit - Blaise Trettis [47] In April 2007, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement seized documents from the office of the County Appraiser in connection with an investigation into illegally re-appraising properties at lower values. [48]
The Brevard Correctional Institution is located west of the county jail. Despite its name, it is operated by the state. [13] It was built in 1977. It houses up to 1,000 inmates. It employs 238 people. In 2010, it cost $30.8 million to operate. In 2011, it needed $6.2 million to repair. The state decided to close it in March 2011. [14]
Deer Run is an equestrian community in Brevard, Florida, United States known for rural living and its wildlife.The community began when Cavalier Properties Inc. along with Atico Financial Corp purchased the former citrus grove property July 10, 1980 for the sum of $2,715,000.
The Merritt Island Public Library, though a part of the Brevard County Library System, is a state-designated special library district. Since Merritt Island is an unincorporated area of Brevard County, [33] in 1965 the area applied for, and was designated, a special library district under Chapter 65-1289 by the Florida Legislature. [34]
Though the area has a relatively small number of high technology companies, 736, a business journal ranked it eighth in the country as a high tech center in 2009. The area had 23,096 high-tech jobs with a ratio of 124 per 1,000 total jobs. [193] The county had 1,050 restaurants in 2007 and nearly that many (1,040) in 2010.