Mims, Florida

Mims is an unincorporated community in Brevard County on the Indian River, counted by the Census Bureau as the Mims census designated place rather than a city.

The Census tables name it Mims CDP, Florida (ACS 2020-2024 DP05 for Mims CDP). Its parks and its library are Brevard County services, so the county pages carry the local addresses. Those addresses share one ZIP code, 32754, from the Mims / Scottsmoor library at 3615 Lionel Rd. (county library branch list) to the Mims Launch Area at 2010 Jones Ave (Mims Launch Area listing).

The county places that launch north of Wiley Road on the Indian River, a little north of the railroad bridge to the Kennedy Space Center, with water access toward Haulover Canal, the Marsh Bay area and the Dummits Cove area (Mims Launch Area listing). One naming quirk is worth knowing: the state historical marker at 2180 Freedom Ave lists its city as Titusville (Moore Memorial Homestead marker), while the county gives the same address as Mims, FL 32754 (Moore Memorial Park listing). Both refer to the same Mims site.

Because Mims is not incorporated, its local government is the Brevard County Board of County Commissioners, with one commissioner for each of five districts under Florida law.

Florida Statutes section 124.01 divides every county into five commissioner districts, numbered one to five and drawn as nearly equal in population as possible, with one commissioner for each district elected by the county's qualified voters (Florida Statutes 124.01). The county lists the board's offices at 2725 Judge Fran Jamieson Way in Viera and its main line as (321) 633-2000 on its department pages (Brevard County Emergency Management page).

In practice, that means a question about a Mims park or the Mims library goes to a county department, not a city office. County money also reaches Mims directly: the Moore Cultural Center is funded through the State of Florida and the Board of County Commissioners (Moore Memorial Park listing). The Brevard County commission districts guide has more on the districts.

The Census Bureau's ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates count 7,610 people in Mims, with a median age of 55.4 and 32.7 percent of residents 65 or older.

The population estimate carries a margin of error of plus or minus 804 people (DP05 for Mims CDP). In the housing table, 89.2 percent of occupied homes are owner occupied (DP04 for Mims CDP). The same table counts 1,014 vacant housing units, 23.8 percent of all units (DP04 for Mims CDP).

The two public draws in Mims are the 11.93 acre Moore Memorial Park with its cultural center and the Mims Launch Area, a paddling and fishing spot on the Indian River with free parking.

Brevard County describes the park as sitting on the original homesite of the Moores, with educational outreach exhibits, a research library, a replica of the Moore family home and the Walk of Freedom with reflecting pools and a fountain (Moore Memorial Park listing). The center is open Monday through Friday 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM and Saturday 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, closed Sundays, and personal tours are booked at (321) 264-6595. The county page gives the cultural center two sizes, 5,000 square feet in its description and 4,874 square feet in its amenity list. The state marker at the site records that Harry T. Moore organized the first Brevard County Branch of the NAACP in 1934 and that he and his wife were killed when a bomb was planted beneath their house on Christmas night in 1951 (Moore Memorial Homestead marker).

The Mims Launch Area is a 0.8 acre site with a 1 lane natural launch for non motorized boats and canoes, shoreline fishing, free parking and a county Launch View tag (Mims Launch Area listing). It is a public put in for paddling toward Haulover Canal, and questions go to the county park line, (321) 264-5037.

The Mims / Scottsmoor Public Library is at 3615 Lionel Rd., Mims, FL 32754, phone (321) 264-5080, and it is closed on Saturday and Sunday.

Thursday is the one evening the Mims branch stays open to 8 p.m. (Brevard County library branch list). A weekend visit needs another branch on the county list, and the Brevard County public library system guide has more on the county system.

The federal school locator lists two public schools in Mims, Mims Elementary and Pinewood Elementary, and the state's 2026 grades rate Mims Elementary an A, up from a C in 2025.

The federal school locator lists Mims Elementary School at 2582 US Highway 1, phone (321) 264-3020, with 393 students in grades PK to 6, and Pinewood Elementary School at 3757 Old Dixie Hwy, phone (321) 269-4530, with 500 students in PK to 6, with enrollment from 2024-2025 data (NCES public school search for Mims).

The Florida Department of Education's 2026 school grades file shows Mims Elementary at grade A in 2026 after grade C in both 2025 and 2024, earning 62 percent of possible points, while Pinewood Elementary held a B in 2026, 2025 and 2024 with 58 percent of possible points (FLDOE School Grades 2026 file). Of the two Mims schools, only Mims Elementary changed grade in the 2026 file. The Brevard Public Schools guide has more on the district.

Storm warnings and evacuation orders reach Mims addresses through AlertBrevard, the address based call, text and email system used by Brevard County Emergency Management.

The county says AlertBrevard notifications cover boil water notices, shelter in place or evacuation orders and other alerts for the address registered, such as a home, a business or an elderly parent's home (Brevard County Emergency Management page). The Emergency Management Office is at 1751 Huntington Lane in Rockledge, phone (321) 637-6670.

For flood insurance, FEMA lists Brevard County as community 125092 with a Community Rating System class 8 since October 1, 2024, worth a 10 percent premium discount inside the special flood hazard area and 5 percent outside it; the county's currently effective flood map is dated January 29, 2021, and its first rate map dates to September 22, 1972 (FEMA NFIP record for Brevard County). The Brevard County hurricane shelter, sandbag and AlertBrevard guides have more on each.

Last verified: October 21, 2026, against the Mims Census tables, the county Moore park, Mims launch, library and emergency pages, the state Moore marker, the federal and state school files, Florida Statutes 124.01 and FEMA's Brevard County flood record.