Micco CDP census profile — Micco, Florida

About 8,900 people live in the Micco CDP, according to the Census Bureau's ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate of 8,896, while the 2020 Census counted 9,574 residents there.

The Micco census designated place is a statistical area, not a municipality: the Census Bureau geography glossary defines census designated places as settled concentrations of population that are identifiable by name but are not legally incorporated under state law. The 2020 Census table P1 for Micco CDP recorded 9,574 people on April 1, 2020, and the 2010 Census table P1 had recorded 9,052, so the count rose by 522 over the decade (9,574 minus 9,052), a gain of 5.8 percent. The five-year survey figure of 8,896 in the Micco DP05 profile carries a margin of error of 801, because it rests on a sample rather than a head count, and it overlaps the 2020 census figure once that margin is applied.

The Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer place file lists Micco CDP with 7.604 square miles of land and 2.25 square miles of water. Spread over that land, the 2020 count works out to about 1,259 residents per square mile (9,574 divided by 7.604). The CDP includes Barefoot Bay: the Census Bureau geocoder places the Barefoot Bay Recreation District office at 625 Barefoot Blvd. inside Micco CDP, geographic identifier 1245275. That office address, Barefoot Bay, FL 32976, is the one the Barefoot Bay Recreation District publishes. To the south, section 7.05 of the Florida Statutes runs the Brevard County line due west to the mouth of the St. Sebastian River and then south along the thread of the river.

Micco is far older than Brevard County as a whole: half of its residents are 68.2 or older in the ACS 2020-2024 estimates, compared with 46.7 across Brevard County.

Residents 65 and over make up 61.4 percent of the Micco population, according to the Micco DP05 table, against 24.5 percent in the Brevard County DP05 table and 21.3 percent in the Florida DP05 table. Children under 18 are 4.8 percent of Micco residents, about a quarter of the county share of 18.1 percent. There are 84.1 males per 100 females in the Micco CDP, and among residents 65 and over the DP05 table counts 2,872 women and 2,588 men. A separate Digital Towns page on Micco ages and retirement income breaks the age brackets down further.

Most Micco residents moved to Florida from another state: 83.3 percent were born in a different U.S. state, and 93.4 percent are non-Hispanic white, in the ACS 2020-2024 profile tables.

Only 10.3 percent of Micco residents were born in Florida, according to the Micco DP02 profile, while the Brevard County DP02 profile puts Florida-born residents at 32.7 percent of the county and the Florida DP02 profile at 35.5 percent statewide. Micco, in other words, is largely a community of people who arrived from elsewhere in the country.

The Micco population is far less varied by origin than the county or the state. Non-Hispanic white residents are 93.4 percent of Micco CDP in the DP05 table, compared with 70.2 percent of Brevard County and 50.4 percent of Florida. Hispanic or Latino residents of any race are 3.7 percent of Micco, with a margin of 3.2 points, against 12.2 percent countywide and 27.4 percent statewide. Among Micco adults 25 and over, 90.9 percent finished high school and 16.9 percent hold a bachelor's degree or higher; the county's bachelor's share is 34.2 percent.

The median Micco household had an income of $45,794 in the ACS 2020-2024 estimates (in 2024 dollars), well under the Brevard County median of $78,476.

The Micco DP03 economic profile shows why: only 29.7 percent of Micco residents 16 and over are in the labor force, compared with 56.7 percent in the Brevard County DP03 profile and 59.8 percent in the Florida DP03 profile. Only 36.4 percent of Micco households report any earnings from work at all, against 69.9 percent of Brevard County households. Per capita income in Micco is $35,662, against $44,108 countywide, and the gap is narrower than the household figure suggests because Micco households are so small. Median family income is $63,047. In the same estimates, 11.7 percent of Micco residents live below the poverty level, compared with 10.2 percent of Brevard County residents and 12.6 percent of Floridians.

Micco households are small. The DP02 profile counts 5,156 households in the CDP with an average size of 1.73 people, against 2.42 in Brevard County. Married couples head 39.8 percent of Micco households, and a householder living alone accounts for 46.9 percent of them (20.7 percent men living alone plus 26.2 percent women living alone). At least one person aged 65 or over lives in 73.2 percent of Micco households.

Two in three Micco homes are mobile or manufactured homes: the ACS 2020-2024 estimates count 4,600 mobile homes among 6,834 housing units in the CDP, 67.3 percent.

That share is roughly nine times the countywide rate. The Brevard County DP04 housing profile puts mobile homes at 7.2 percent of county housing, and the Florida DP04 profile puts them at 8.0 percent of the state's. In the Micco DP04 profile, single-family detached houses are 26.0 percent of units, against 65.9 percent across Brevard County. Barefoot Bay, inside the CDP, is a mobile home subdivision: the Brevard County Board of County Commissioners created the Barefoot Bay Recreation District for the Barefoot Bay Mobile Home Subdivision by Ordinance 84-05, according to a 2017 Florida House local bill staff analysis.

The Micco housing stock is compact and mostly from one decade. Two-bedroom units make up 73.2 percent of Micco homes, and 44.4 percent of units were built from 1980 to 1989; only 0.6 percent date from the 1960s. Owners occupy 91.9 percent of occupied Micco homes, and 73.6 percent of those owners carry no mortgage. The median value of an owner-occupied Micco home is $172,600, about half the Brevard County median of $339,600, and median monthly owner costs without a mortgage are $524. About one Micco unit in four, 24.6 percent, was vacant at the time of the survey; the reasons are broken down on the separate Micco seasonal homes page.

Compared side by side, Micco CDP is older, smaller per household, lower in income and far more reliant on mobile homes than Brevard County or Florida in the same ACS 2020-2024 release.

Every figure in the Micco comparison table is a five-year estimate covering 2020 through 2024, and the Micco numbers carry wider margins than the county or state numbers because the survey sample in a CDP of about 9,000 people is small. The next Census Bureau 5-year release will update these Micco figures; the 2020 Census count of 9,574 remains the most recent full count for the Micco CDP.