Melbourne Village, Florida: Town Guide

Melbourne Village is a separate incorporated town in south Brevard County, the Town of Melbourne Village, with its own Town Commission and a Town Center at 555 Hammock Rd.

The Town of Melbourne Village lists its Town Center at 555 Hammock Rd., Melbourne Village, Florida 32904, phone (321) 723-8300, with office hours Monday through Friday from 9:30am to 3:30pm (Town of Melbourne Village home page). The town's own rental page places Melbourne Village in south Brevard County, among the trees (Melbourne Village event space page). Last verified: October 21, 2026, against the Town of Melbourne Village commission, departments, boards, permits and rental pages and the Census ACS tables for place 1244075.

Melbourne Village is not part of the City of Melbourne, although it relies on Melbourne for water: the City of Melbourne lists Melbourne Village among the places it supplies with drinking water, alongside Melbourne Beach, Indialantic, Indian Harbour Beach, Satellite Beach and Palm Shores, while West Melbourne buys Melbourne water wholesale (City of Melbourne water treatment and distribution page).

Elizabeth Nutting, Virginia Wood and Margaret Hutchison were the founders of the American Homesteading Foundation and the town of Melbourne Village, according to a State Archives of Florida photo record.

That record is the note on a 1955 photograph, C021580, in the Florida Memory collection, which shows agrarian theorist Ralph Borsodi standing with Elizabeth Nutting next to a sign advertising the future site for the University of Melbourne (Florida Memory photo C021580). The biographical note says Borsodi lived in Melbourne Village from 1950 to 1960, started the University of Melbourne and served as its chancellor until 1957. The general note adds that the land and buildings of the University of Melbourne were later sold to Brevard Engineering College, which later became Florida Institute of Technology.

Physical traces of the early village survive. The town describes the Hester Wagner Community House as a historic WWII building relocated from the Banana River Naval Air Station in the late 1940s (Melbourne Village event space page).

The Town of Melbourne Village rents the Hester Wagner Community House for $130 a day Monday through Thursday and $250 a day Friday through Sunday, for up to 99 people.

The rental covers an air conditioned and heated 20' x 60' hall, a 24' x 16' outside deck, bathrooms, a kitchenette with a sink, refrigerator, microwave and coffee pot, folding banquet tables and chairs, and wheelchair access ramps (Melbourne Village event space page). Setup, cleanup and swimming pool access are not included. The town bars cooking fires and open flames (chafing dishes and birthday candles are allowed), bounce houses and water slides, and smoking in and around the building.

Bookings start with a call to the Town office at (321) 723-8300 between 9:30 and 3:30 on weekdays; a date can be held for up to five business days without a deposit, the fee is due the week of the event, and the key is released only once the fee is paid in full (Melbourne Village event space page). The hour window includes setup and cleanup, and no early access is allowed, so the 9 am to 9 pm block is the whole event day.

A seven-member Town Commission, a Mayor, a Vice Mayor and five Commissioners, governs Melbourne Village, supported by three town departments and other town officials.

The Town Commission page lists the Mayor, the Vice Mayor and five Commissioners, each with an email link that staff distribute, and reminds residents that Florida's public records law covers email to town officials (Melbourne Village Town Commission page). The January 28, 2025 regular commission meeting, for example, was held on a Tuesday at 6:30 PM at AHF Hall (Melbourne Village commission minutes, January 28, 2025); current meeting dates are on the town calendar.

The departments page lists three operational departments (Melbourne Village departments page). The Town Clerk and Treasurer keeps public records, processes building permit applications, supports committee meetings and handles the budget, payroll and financial records; Office Administration, the Deputy Clerk and Office Admin, keeps records and helps residents and contractors with permits; and Public Works maintains roads, buildings and drainage, spending most of its time on the drainage system, which is financed largely by the Town Stormwater Utility Fee. The same page lists a Building Official, a Town Attorney and a Code Enforcement Official among the other town officials and notes that the town also uses contract service providers. Law enforcement comes from the Brevard County Sheriff's Office Southern Precinct, which provides 24/7 coverage from 1515 Sarno Road, Building B, with a non-emergency line at 321-952-6371.

The board structure has changed recently. The Melbourne Village boards page records that the Town Commission dissolved the Code Enforcement Board at its October 28, 2025 regular meeting, sending code matters to the Code Enforcement Official and, if needed, a Special Magistrate, and dissolved the Town Review Board on December 16, 2025, with the stated intent to seat a new board in early 2026 (Melbourne Village boards and committees page). A Town Code Ad Hoc Committee also appears on that page.

The Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) 2020-2024 5-year estimates count 778 residents in Melbourne Village, with a margin of error of 189.

Every Melbourne Village estimate carries a Census margin of error, and the table shows each one next to its figure. The median age was 60.0 and 42.2 percent of residents were 65 or older (ACS 2020-2024 DP05 for Melbourne Village). Median household income was listed as $100,000 and the mean trip to work was 24.1 minutes (ACS 2020-2024 DP03 for Melbourne Village). The survey counts 383 housing units, with owners in 89.0 percent of the occupied homes (ACS 2020-2024 DP04 for Melbourne Village).

Most construction in Melbourne Village needs a town building permit, and removing any tree, including pines, palms and dead trees, needs a tree removal permit.

The Melbourne Village permits page says construction is governed by the Florida Building Code and the town codes, permits are valid for one year and may be renewed, and completed applications take 7 days to review (Melbourne Village permits page). Applications must be notarized and can be submitted in person, by regular mail or by email, with fees paid by cash, check or card (3.25 percent card fee). A formal site plan, plan review and approval from the Town Review Board is required for a new house, for additions that raise structural or lot coverage by 25 percent or more of current coverage, or for additions that push building height past eighteen feet. The permits page still names the Town Review Board for that approval, while the town boards page records that the Town Commission dissolved the Town Review Board on December 16, 2025 (Melbourne Village boards and committees page), so the Town office at (321) 723-8300 is the place to ask which body now reviews site plans.

Following House Bill 803, owners can file a Permit Exemption Request Form for small home improvement projects under $7,500, but structural work (including exterior doors and windows, roofing, sheds and fencing), electrical, plumbing, mechanical and gas work still need permits (Melbourne Village permits page). Tree removal permits are valid for one year and take 7 days to review; solicitor permits cost $25 and take 14 days under Ordinance 2025-01; and a household may hold up to two 2-day garage sales a year, for $5 for the first and $10 for the second.

Melbourne Village takes part in the National Flood Insurance Program under a flood map dated March 17, 2014, and FEMA lists no Community Rating System class for the town.

FEMA's community status book lists the Town of Melbourne Village as NFIP community 120329, participating, with an initial flood insurance rate map dated November 15, 1979, a currently effective map dated 03/17/14 and empty class rating and discount fields (FEMA NFIP record for Melbourne Village). Drainage is the town's main public works job, paid for largely by the Town Stormwater Utility Fee, and drainage problems reported to the Town office are prioritized and scheduled for work (Melbourne Village departments page).

Brevard County Emergency Management describes AlertBrevard, the county's address-based alert service, which sends boil-water, shelter-in-place and evacuation messages to whatever phones and inboxes a Melbourne Village household signs up (Brevard County Emergency Management). For shelters, the special needs registry and sandbag sites, see the Brevard County hurricane shelters guide and the county sandbags guide; the Town of Melbourne Village website menu also carries a Storm Center page (Town of Melbourne Village site menu).