Indialantic, Florida: Town Guide

Indialantic is a Brevard County beach town with 0.972 square miles of land, with the Indian River Lagoon to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.

The Census Bureau's 2024 gazetteer lists Indialantic town, place code 1233375, with 0.972 square miles of land and 0.339 square miles of water (2024 Census gazetteer, Florida places). The town describes itself as nestled between the lagoon and the ocean (Town of Indialantic parks page), and Town Hall sits at 216 Fifth Ave., Indialantic, FL 32903 (Indialantic parking and tickets page).

On the beach, Flug Avenue in Indialantic is a landmark for the federal shore protection project: the Mid Reach ends there and the South Reach begins, running 3.8 miles south to Spessard Holland Park North (Brevard County Beach Management Program).

The Census Bureau's ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates count 3,065 people in Indialantic, with a median age of 51.8 years.

Older residents outnumber children in Indialantic: 25.1 percent of the town is 65 or older, while 16.9 percent is under 18 (ACS DP05, Indialantic town). Median household income is $104,184, and Indialantic workers average 20.3 minutes to get to work (ACS DP03, Indialantic town).

Most occupied homes in Indialantic are owner occupied. The survey counts 1,717 housing units, 1,466 of them occupied, with 14.6 percent of units vacant; 74.4 percent of occupied homes are owner occupied, the median owner-occupied value is $604,200 and the median gross rent $1,554 (ACS DP04, Indialantic town).

Indialantic is run by a five-member Town Council, a Mayor and four Council members, each serving a two-year term, with town departments working out of Town Hall on Fifth Avenue.

The Indialantic council page shows staggered terms: the Mayor's seat and Council Seats 2 and 4 list terms of 2024 to 2026, while Seats 1 and 3 list 2025 to 2027, so the terms overlap rather than all ending together (Indialantic Town Council page). The town lists its departments as Administration, Building Department, Fire Rescue, Police, Public Works and Local Business Tax Receipts (Town of Indialantic departments).

Construction questions go to the Indialantic Building Department, which takes every building permit application, inspects work against town ordinances and the Florida Building Code, and also handles code enforcement; the building official's listed line is 321-722-6110 (Indialantic Building Department). Online applications are limited to HVAC, windows, doors, shutters and re-roof permits, and the department's listed contact number is the Town Hall line, 321-723-2242.

The Indialantic forms page carries the complete building permit package, site plan review and variance applications, local business tax receipt applications for commercial and home-based businesses, a Low Speed Vehicle Registration form, a portable storage (POD) permit and a Rain Barrel Rebate Program form (Town of Indialantic forms and permits).

Indialantic answers police, fire and rescue calls with its own town departments, the Indialantic Police Department and the Indialantic Fire Department.

The Indialantic Police Department handles general law enforcement and emergency dispatch for the town with twelve sworn officers, backed by 6 full-time and 7 part-time civilian employees (Indialantic Police page). The department's listed phone is 321-723-7788, and its extra services include vacation house checks, child ID and fingerprinting, and home and business security surveys.

The Indialantic Fire Department is a mix of paid and volunteer staff: six paid firefighters and the Fire Chief, plus fifteen active volunteers (Indialantic Fire - Rescue page). Staffed with paramedics and certified Emergency Medical Technicians, it gives first response advanced life support on medical calls in Indialantic; the department's listed phone is 321-723-0366.

Waste Management collects Indialantic garbage on Monday and Thursday, recycling on Thursday and containerized yard waste on Tuesday, and two Brevard public schools have Indialantic addresses.

Bulk furniture, appliances and tires are picked up only by appointment with Waste Management, at 321-723-4455 or centralfloridaservice@wm.com (Indialantic trash pickup and recycling page). The town page says Waste Management began regular weekly clam truck pickups of large yard trash piles in Indialantic starting June 1, 2026, on a separate posted schedule.

The federal school directory lists two public schools with Indialantic addresses: Indialantic Elementary School, 1050 N Palm Ave, pre-kindergarten to grade 6, with 662 students, and Herbert C. Hoover Middle School, 2000 Hawk Haven Dr, grades 7 and 8, with 473 students, both counts from 2024-2025 (NCES public school search, Indialantic). Indialantic Elementary answers at (321) 723-2811 (Indialantic Elementary website). Both belong to Brevard Public Schools, which the Brevard Public Schools guide on this site covers in full.

Indialantic's draws are its beach and six town parks, led by Nance Park and the boardwalk on Wavecrest Avenue, and the main change ahead is a rebuild concept for that oceanfront that has no construction funding yet.

The town lists Nance Park, Lily Park, Douglas Park, Orlando Park, Ernest Kouwen-Hoven Riverside Park and Sunrise Park as its parks (Indialantic parks). A state historical marker at 201 North Miramar Avenue recalls the Indialantic Casino, which opened in 1923 with an Olympic-size saltwater pool, was bought by the town in 1967 and was torn down in 1970 (Indialantic Casino marker). The Indialantic Boardwalk guide on this site covers beach parking, permits and lifeguards in detail.

Beach parking is how Indialantic pays for its oceanfront. Outside the permit system, drivers pay through the town's designated parking apps; an annual sticker costs $50, or $40 once June 1 has passed, and it covers designated spaces on Wave Crest Avenue, Watson Drive, Tampa Avenue and Sixth Avenue and at James H. Nance Park (Indialantic parking permits). The town says the parks at Nance Park, Wavecrest and Sunrise Park and the Tampa Ave. beach access are maintained entirely with that parking revenue, without property tax money (Indialantic boardwalk project page).

For the oceanfront, Land Design has drawn a vision for Nance Park and Wavecrest with consolidated parking, sport courts, a full-length raised boardwalk and a community center, but Indialantic says a funding source has not been identified and the design has so far been paid for with parking revenue (Boardwalk Reimagination Project). Separately, the county beach program says South Reach nourishment, which starts at Flug Avenue in Indialantic, was contracted for December 2025 to April 2026 and missed that deadline because of equipment problems; the county page posts the revised schedule and a progress map (county beach program).

Indialantic sends residents to Brevard County Emergency Management for hurricane planning, and FEMA lists the town as a participating National Flood Insurance Program community with flood maps last made effective on January 29, 2021.

The town's hurricane page gives the county Emergency Management Office at 1746 Cedar Street, Rockledge, FL 32955, phone 321-637-6670, and describes the county office as responsible for disaster preparedness and for coordinating emergency services before, during and after a disaster (Indialantic hurricane resources). Shelters, evacuation, sandbags and AlertBrevard notices are covered in the Brevard County emergency management, hurricane shelters, sandbags and AlertBrevard guides on this site.

FEMA's community status book lists Indialantic, Town of, as NFIP community 125115 in Brevard County, participating in the program, with its first flood hazard map and rate map both dated August 18, 1972 and a currently effective map date of 01/29/21 (FEMA NFIP community status, Indialantic). The same Indialantic record shows no Community Rating System class rating. Last verified: October 21, 2026, against the Census tables, the FEMA record and the Indialantic council, police, fire, building, trash and hurricane pages.