Brevard County Real Estate - Palm Bay

Palm Bay is in East Central Florida. It's population as recorded in the 2010 Census was 103,190.

The median age for residents of Palm Bay is 39.8. Around 33.8% of Palm Bay households include school aged children and 28.7% of households include individuals aged 65 years or over. Census records indicate 72.9% of the Palm Bay population are White, 17.9% are Black or African American, .4% American Indian, 1.7% Asian and 3.5% are Two or more Races.

There are 45,220 housing units in Palm Bay. 5,738 (12.6%) of these were reported as vacant in the 2010 Census. There are 11,507 residential rental units in Palm Bay. 10,117 of them were occupied in 2010 providing a residential rental vacancy rate of 11.7%.

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Brevard County

Brevard County is located in the East Central Florida region, along with Orange, Volusia, Sumter, Seminole, Lake, and Osceola counties. There are many incorporated municipalities in Brevard. Cities include Cape Canaveral, Cocoa, Cocoa Beach, Indian Harbour Beach, Melbourne, Palm Bay, Rockledge, Satellite Beach, Titusville, and West Melbourne. The towns in Brevard are Grant-Valkaria, Indiatlantic, Malabar, Melbourne Beach, Melbourne Village, and Palm Shores. Brevard?s population is well over half a million.

Top industries for Brevard County include technology, tourism, agriculture, and other service businesses. Top public sector employers for Brevard County are the Brevard County School Board, Brevard County Board of County Commissioners, NASA, and US Department of Defense. Private sector employers include Harris Corporation, Health First, Inc., United Space Alliance, Wuesthoff Health System, and Northrop Grumman Corporation.

Kennedy Space Center is located on Merritt Island in Brevard County and provides many jobs for the area, as well as acting as a popular tourist destination. It is from this activity that Brevard takes its nickname, the Space Coast. Nicknamed "Space City USA", the city of Titusville is across the water from KSC. The city?s population is highly-educated. The city is a popular destination for visitors wishing to see spacecraft launches.

Other tourist attractions in Brevard County include Port Canaveral, one of the busiest cruise ports in the world, the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, and Cocoa Beach. Port Canaveral is serviced by Disney Cruise Lines, Carnival, and Royal Caribbean. Not just a tourist destination, the port is within a foreign trade zone.

In 2010 and 2011, the Brookings Institution reported that Brevard ranked in the bottom fifth of the nation's top metro areas, based on unemployment, gross metropolitan product, housing prices and foreclosed properties. In 2011, the county was rated the 6th worst in the nation for foreclosures. RealtyTrac rated Brevard as the best county in the United States for buyers in 2013 because of the low prices.

Neighboring Properties

AddressTypeSq FtClass 
1526 Leesburg St Sw Vacant Residential 0 L
1532 Leesburg St Sw Vacant Residential Land - Single Family Platted 983 B
1520 Leesburg St Sw Vacant Residential 0 L
1538 Leesburg St Sw Vacant Residential 0 L
1514 Leesburg St Sw Vacant Residential 0 L
1519 Petunia St Sw Vacant Residential 0 L
1544 Leesburg St Sw Vacant Residential 0 L
1537 Petunia St Sw Vacant Residential 0 L
1513 Petunia St Sw Vacant Residential 0 L
2326 Legion Ave Sw Vacant Residential 0 L
1543 Petunia St Sw Vacant Residential 0 L
1526 Petunia St Sw Vacant Residential Land - Single Family Platted 0 L
1550 Leesburg St Sw Vacant Residential 0 L
1525 Petunia St Sw Vacant Residential Land - Single Family Platted 0 L
1531 Petunia St Sw Vacant Residential Land - Single Family Platted 576 B
2318 Legion Ave Sw Vacant Residential 0 L
2341 Legion Ave Sw Vacant Residential Land - Single Family Platted 0 L
2349 Legion Ave Sw Vacant Residential Land - Single Family Platted 0 L
2357 Legion Ave Sw Vacant Residential Land - Single Family Platted 0 L
1549 Petunia St Sw Vacant Residential 0 L
1532 Petunia St Sw Vacant Residential 0 L
2365 Legion Ave Sw Vacant Residential Land - Single Family Platted 0 L
1520 Petunia St Sw Vacant Residential 0 L
1556 Leesburg St Sw Vacant Residential 0 L
2310 Legion Ave Sw Vacant Residential 0 L
1514 Petunia St Sw Vacant Residential 0 L
1544 Petunia St Sw Vacant Residential Land - Single Family Platted 0 L
1538 Petunia St Sw Vacant Residential 0 L
2333 Legion Ave Sw Vacant Residential 0 L
1555 Petunia St Sw Vacant Residential 0 L
2325 Legion Ave Sw Vacant Residential 0 L
2302 Legion Ave Sw Vacant Residential 0 L
1562 Leesburg St Sw Vacant Residential 0 L

Nearest MLS Listings

Nearest properties for sale within 3 miles of this location

AddressMilesSq FtPrice 
2226 Kentucky Dr Sw .29 0 $19,500
2556 Legion Ave Sw .4 0 $18,500
2661 Marsh Ave Sw .48 0 $35,000
2796 Acmar Ave Sw .86 0 $19,500
1952 Kaufman Ave Sw .9 0 $19,500
1946 Kaufman Ave Sw .92 0 $19,500
1573 Fogarty St Sw 1.11 0 $30,000
1341 Laredo St Sw 1.22 0 $35,000
2424 Abaco Ave Sw 1.32 0 $29,900
1080 Echinata St Sw 1.38 0 $15,000
2178 Hibiscus Ave Sw 1.38 0 $21,900
843 Sailboat St Sw 1.41 0 $50,000
827 Sailboat St Sw 1.44 0 $29,750
2189 Soria Ave Sw 1.46 0 $27,000
2392 Madden Ave Sw 1.46 0 $34,000
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