Veterans — Micco, Florida

Micco has about 1,314 civilian veterans, 15.5 percent of its 8,473 civilian adults, in the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates for the Micco CDP (Census table S2101, Micco CDP).

The Micco share is about twice the statewide rate. Florida's 1,327,071 veterans make up 7.4 percent of its civilian adults (Census table S2101, Florida), and Brevard County's 65,035 veterans make up 12.6 percent (Census table S2101, Brevard County), so Micco sits above a county that already runs well above the state.

Because Micco is a small census place, its figures are survey estimates with wide margins. The Census Bureau gives the Micco veteran count a margin of error of 277 and the 15.5 percent share a margin of 2.9 points (S2101, Micco CDP). Read plainly, the Micco total lies somewhere between about 1,037 (1,314 minus 277) and 1,591 (1,314 plus 277).

The count covers Barefoot Bay as well as the older Micco settlement. The Census Bureau geocoder places 625 Barefoot Blvd in the Micco CDP in Brevard County (Census geocoder), so Barefoot Bay residents are inside these Micco numbers. Micco has no city government; the CDP is a statistical area, and Brevard County offices serve it.

Vietnam is the largest service era among Micco veterans, with 595 people, 45.3 percent of the Micco CDP total, against 34.6 percent in Brevard County and 34.0 percent statewide.

The five wartime periods in the Micco table add to 1,110 (209 + 225 + 595 + 73 + 8), fewer than the 1,314 total, because table S2101 lists only these five periods and has no row for other service (S2101, Micco CDP). The Vietnam figure for Brevard County comes from the same release (S2101, Brevard County), as does the Florida figure (S2101, Florida).

Younger veterans are a thinner slice in Micco than elsewhere in Brevard. The 209 Micco veterans who served from September 2001 onward are 15.9 percent of the local total, while that post-2001 group is 26.1 percent of veterans countywide and 24.3 percent across Florida. The Korean War count of 73 carries a margin of error of 51 and the World War II count of 8 a margin of 12, so both are rough estimates.

Most Micco veterans are past retirement age: 1,011 of the 1,314, or 77.0 percent, are 65 or older, adding the ACS counts of 507 aged 65 to 74 and 504 aged 75 and over.

Only 102 Micco veterans (44 aged 18 to 34 plus 58 aged 35 to 54) are under 55, and 201 are 55 to 64 (S2101, Micco CDP). Across Brevard County, by contrast, veterans aged 65 to 74 are 25.5 percent and those 75 and over are 25.9 percent, about 51.4 percent in all (S2101, Brevard County). The Florida figures are 22.5 and 29.9 percent, or 52.4 percent (S2101, Florida).

The veteran age profile follows the age of Micco as a whole. In the same table, 35.1 percent of all Micco civilian adults are 65 to 74 and 29.3 percent are 75 or older, so Micco and Barefoot Bay are older than Brevard County overall, and the veterans living there reflect it (S2101, Micco CDP).

Women are a larger share of Micco veterans than the county or state norm. The survey counts 182 women veterans in Micco, 13.9 percent of the total, beside 1,132 men; women are 12.1 percent of veterans in Brevard County and 10.9 percent in Florida (S2101, Brevard County; S2101, Florida). With a total this small, that difference falls within the range a survey of this size can produce.

Micco veterans had a median income of $32,301 in the ACS 2020-2024 estimates, above the $25,205 median for Micco nonveterans but well below the $57,948 for veterans across Brevard County.

Statewide the veteran median is $52,753 (S2101, Florida). Table S2101 does not split veteran income by age, so the gap between Micco and the county cannot be pinned on any one cause from this source, though the Micco veteran population is far older than the county's (S2101, Micco CDP).

Schooling differs sharply from the county. Among Micco veterans 25 and over, 45.6 percent finished high school as their highest level and 12.7 percent hold a bachelor's degree or higher, compared with 37.5 percent holding a bachelor's degree among Brevard County veterans (S2101, Brevard County).

Poverty is lower among Micco veterans than among their neighbors. The survey counts 73 Micco veterans below the poverty level, 5.6 percent, while 13.0 percent of Micco nonveterans fall below it; the veteran rate is 6.2 percent in Brevard County and 7.6 percent in Florida (S2101, Florida).

Reported disability is higher. In Micco, 495 veterans, 37.7 percent, report a disability on the survey, compared with 27.1 percent of Micco nonveterans, 30.7 percent of Brevard County veterans and 31.0 percent of Florida veterans. This is the Census Bureau's own survey measure, not a VA disability rating (S2101, Micco CDP).

Micco has no veteran service office of its own, so its veterans use Brevard County Veteran Services, whose nearest office is in Palm Bay City Hall at 120 Malabar Road.

The county lists the Palm Bay Veteran Services Office in the Palm Bay City Hall Building, Community and Economic Development Room 229, with hours of 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, and the same hours at its Viera office at 2725 Judge Fran Jamieson Way and its Merritt Island office (Brevard County Veteran Services). The county lists one phone number for Veteran Services, 321-633-2012. The county page says Brevard County Veteran Services can help with filing a claim for VA benefits, and that each type of claim requires supporting documentation, so a Micco veteran booking a visit brings the papers for that claim.

VA health care for Micco veterans sits in two systems on either side of the county line. The Viera VA Clinic, part of VA Orlando Health Care, is at 2900 Veterans Way in Viera (VA Orlando Health Care). South across the St. Sebastian River, the West Palm Beach VA Healthcare System opened the Indian River VA Clinic at 777 37th Street in Vero Beach on March 27, 2026, describing it as the first multi-specialty VA clinic in Vero Beach (VA press release).

For burial, Micco veterans can turn to Cape Canaveral National Cemetery, a VA national cemetery. It is at 5525 U.S. Highway 1 in Mims and covers 318 acres, according to the VA National Cemetery Administration (VA National Cemetery Administration). The cemetery's page lists the phone number 321-383-2638 and directs drivers from I-95 to take Exit 231 and turn south on Highway 1 for two miles.

Last verified: October 12, 2026, on the Brevard County Veteran Services website and VA websites.

The Micco veteran count includes only people who served on active duty, because the Census Bureau's veteran question excludes anyone who served only in the National Guard or Reserves.

The Census Bureau explains that the veteran status question was changed in 1980 to count only veterans who had served on active duty, and that Guard or Reserve service alone is excluded (U.S. Census Bureau). A Micco or Barefoot Bay resident whose whole service was in a Guard or Reserve unit is therefore not in the 1,314.

The same Census page notes that, starting with Census 2010, veteran status is no longer collected on the decennial census questionnaire. The Census Bureau names the American Community Survey as one of three national surveys it uses for veteran data, and the ACS is the survey behind every Micco figure on this page, each carrying the ACS 2020-2024 5-year vintage and a margin of error (U.S. Census Bureau).

The figures also stop at the Micco CDP line. Veterans living across the St. Sebastian River in Sebastian or Roseland are outside the Micco CDP, and veterans in Palm Bay or Grant-Valkaria are counted in their own places within the Brevard County total of 65,035 (S2101, Brevard County).