Roseland, Florida: Community Profile

Roseland is an unincorporated Census designated place north and west of the City of Sebastian, between the Indian River and the Sebastian River, so Indian River County, not a city, regulates its development (Historic Roseland Neighborhood Plan).

The Census Bureau's 2024 Gazetteer gives Roseland CDP 1.891 square miles of land and 1.325 square miles of water, with an internal point at 27.835325, -80.488207 (2024 Census Gazetteer, Florida places). The county's neighborhood plan uses a slightly larger study area than the CDP: it adds land along Roseland Road south of the Sebastian subdivision Point-O-Woods that the Census Bureau leaves out (Historic Roseland Neighborhood Plan, page 11). Every ACS figure on this page describes the CDP, not the plan area.

Roseland addresses use a Sebastian mailing city even though the land is outside the city: Indian River County lists Moore's Point at 14510 U.S. Highway 1, Sebastian, FL 32958, and describes it as sitting at U.S. Highway 1 and North Indian River Drive at the Indian River County and Brevard County line (Moore's Point, Indian River County). The 2003 plan describes the future land use map and the zoning map as two of the primary tools by which Indian River County regulates development in the unincorporated area that includes Roseland (Historic Roseland Neighborhood Plan, page 5).

Roseland CDP has an estimated 2,142 residents with a median age of 59.2 in the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates, against 166,936 residents and a median age of 55.3 for Indian River County (ACS DP05, Roseland CDP; ACS DP05, Indian River County).

Each Roseland figure is printed in the Census Bureau's profile tables for the CDP (ACS DP03, Roseland CDP) and each county figure in the matching county tables (ACS DP03, Indian River County). Residents aged 65 and over are 34.8 percent of the population in both the Roseland and the county tables, and children under 18 are 7.0 percent of Roseland's population (ACS DP05, Roseland CDP).

Roseland CDP has 956 housing units in the ACS 2020-2024 estimates, 810 of them occupied, and 91.2 percent of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners (ACS DP04, Roseland CDP).

The Census table counts 146 vacant units in Roseland, a 15.3 percent vacancy rate, and a median value of $330,500 for owner-occupied homes (ACS DP04, Roseland CDP). Indian River County as a whole shows 18.1 percent of units vacant, 80.1 percent owner occupancy and a median value of $351,500 (ACS DP04, Indian River County). The Roseland median gross rent cell in the same table carries the annotation code -666666666 in place of a dollar figure (ACS DP04, Roseland CDP).

The county's 2003 plan described Roseland as a residential area of primarily low to medium density, with some vacant residential land that would eventually be developed and slow population growth (Historic Roseland Neighborhood Plan, page 32).

Indian River County runs three parks in Roseland: Roseland Community Park with its community building, the Roseland Ball Field (Helen Hanson Park), and the riverfront picnic site at Moore's Point (Indian River County parks list).

At Helen Hanson Park the county says the ball field is open for use unless it is prepared for games, the two unisex restrooms stay locked except for events, and field reservations go through the Recreation Department at 772 226-1727 (Roseland Ball Field (Helen Hanson Park)). Moore's Point puts two picnic pavilions, with four tables under the large one and one under the small one, near the Indian River Lagoon and the Sebastian River (Moore's Point).

Both Roseland park pages repeat the county ordinance rules: no pets under 205.03.22, no alcohol under 205.03.26, and no open fires, camping or overnight parking (Helen Hanson Park rules; Moore's Point rules). The community park's hours, boardwalk and building history are covered in the Roseland guide in the Sebastian section of Digital Towns.

In the county's 2003 inventory, Roseland had county water mains along Roseland Road, U.S. 1 and 130th Street but only about 16 percent of lots connected, and most homes on septic tanks rather than county sewer (Historic Roseland Neighborhood Plan, page 26).

The 2003 plan counted 139 Roseland lots on county water, generally supplied from the North County Water Treatment Plant, and only 57 residences, 7 percent, on the county sanitary sewer system; force mains ran along parts of Roseland Road, North Indian River Drive and 130th Street, with gravity sewers on North Indian River Drive (Historic Roseland Neighborhood Plan, page 26). The plan names the Indian River County Utilities Department as the operator of the county water system and of the wastewater treatment plants.

For roads, the 2003 plan classified U.S. Highway 1 through Roseland as a Rural Principal Arterial and both 130th Street and Roseland Road as Rural Major Collectors, with every other street a local road; the county's public works department maintains the local and collector roads (Historic Roseland Neighborhood Plan, page 25). The same 2003 plan found two commercial and industrial nodes of about 159 acres, concentrated along U.S. 1, with about 50 acres of that land vacant commercial (Historic Roseland Neighborhood Plan, page 27).

Indian River County's 2003 plan projected a build-out population of 3,165 for the Roseland study area, reached in 2057 (Historic Roseland Neighborhood Plan, Table 10).

The plan's summary rounds that to around 3,000 residents and says Roseland would most likely reach build-out after 2050, remaining a residential area of low to medium density (Historic Roseland Neighborhood Plan, page 32). It cautioned that not all vacant unplatted land would be developed to the highest allowed density and that new residential growth would be uneven over time. The projection covers the whole study area, including the land south of Point-O-Woods outside the CDP, while the ACS estimate of 2,142 residents covers Roseland CDP only (ACS DP05, Roseland CDP).

Roseland's name, the community building, the state historical marker and the fire station are covered in the Roseland guide in the Sebastian section, and countywide services such as the Supervisor of Elections and Tax Collector are covered in the Indian River County guides. Last verified: October 22, 2026, for the Roseland place profile, by reading again the three ACS 2020-2024 profile tables for Roseland CDP and Indian River County, the 2024 Gazetteer, the Historic Roseland Neighborhood Plan and the county's Moore's Point, Helen Hanson Park and parks list pages.