ZIP 32976 — South Brevard, Florida

ZIP 32976 is the postal code for Micco and Barefoot Bay in Brevard County, and the Census Bureau's tabulation area for it lies entirely in Brevard, with no land in Indian River County.

The 2020 ZCTA to County Relationship File has a single row for ZCTA 32976, matched to Brevard County with 62,912,612 square meters of land and 6,603,973 square meters of water. Converted at 2,589,988 square meters to the square mile, that is about 24.3 square miles of land and 2.5 square miles of water. Most of that water, 5,827,437 square meters, lies inside Micco CDP.

The neighbors on the Indian River side behave differently. In the same file, ZCTA 32958, the ZIP on Sebastian City Hall's address, is matched only to Indian River County, while ZCTA 32948, the ZIP on Fellsmere City Hall's address, is split between the two counties, with 62,445,516 square meters of land in Brevard and 232,665,054 in Indian River. So ZCTA 32976 is wholly Brevard County land and water, whichever town name appears on the envelope, while ZCTA 32958 is wholly in Indian River County.

A ZCTA is not the ZIP Code itself. The Census Bureau describes ZIP Code Tabulation Areas as generalized areal representations of the point-based ZIP Codes built from 2020 Census tabulation blocks, and for a block with housing units the ZCTA takes the ZIP Code associated with the most addresses in that block. The Micco and Barefoot Bay figures on this page are for ZCTA 32976.

ZIP 32976 takes in almost all of the Micco census designated place, Barefoot Bay included, plus a slice of Palm Bay and a larger stretch of unincorporated land that belongs to no Census place.

The three parts add up exactly: 19,445,869 plus 7,194,984 plus 36,271,759 equals the 62,912,612 square meters of land in the ZCTA to Place Relationship File. Micco CDP has 19,693,506 square meters of land in all, so 98.7 percent of the CDP (19,445,869 divided by 19,693,506) sits inside ZIP 32976. The Palm Bay piece is small from the city's side: 7,194,984 of Palm Bay's 223,820,939 square meters, about 3.2 percent of the city's land.

Barefoot Bay does not appear as a place anywhere in the ZCTA to Place Relationship File. The Census geocoder places the Barefoot Bay Recreation District office at 625 Barefoot Blvd. inside Micco CDP, geographic identifier 1245275, so Census counts for Barefoot Bay homes are part of the Micco figures. More than half the land in the ZIP lies outside both Micco and Palm Bay, in unincorporated Brevard County.

The 2020 Census counted 9,618 people in ZIP 32976, 44 more than the 9,574 counted in Micco CDP, the Census place that includes Barefoot Bay.

The full-count numbers are the cleanest comparison. The 2020 Census P1 table for ZCTA 32976 reports 9,618 residents and the P1 table for Micco CDP reports 9,574, a difference of 44. Housing tells the same story: 6,714 units in the ZCTA 32976 H1 table against 6,700 in the Micco CDP H1 table, a difference of 14.

The survey estimates run lower than the 2020 counts. The ACS 2020-2024 DP05 profile for ZCTA 32976 puts the population at 9,156, a sample estimate averaged over five years rather than a head count. The American Community Survey puts Micco CDP at 8,896 people and 6,834 homes, against 9,156 people and 6,975 homes for the ZIP, and each of those figures carries its own margin of error.

Mobile homes make up 65.9 percent of the 6,975 housing units in ZIP 32976 in ACS 2020-2024 estimates, the dominant housing type in the ZIP, against 7.2 percent across Brevard County.

The DP04 housing profile for ZCTA 32976, the Micco and Barefoot Bay ZIP, counts single-family detached houses at only 27.5 percent of units, and it dates 43.5 percent of the stock to the 1980s, the largest share of any decade in the ZIP. The median value of an owner-occupied home in the ZIP is $175,400, roughly half the $339,600 median in the Brevard County DP04 profile.

Owners dominate. Of the occupied units in the 32976 ZIP, 92.1 percent are owner-occupied, and owners without a mortgage report median monthly costs of $526. The rental market is thin, with a median gross rent of $1,430 among the units that pay rent. About one unit in four in the Barefoot Bay and Micco ZIP, 24.1 percent, was vacant when surveyed, against 13.9 percent countywide.

ZIP 32976 is an older ZIP: the median age of residents in the Micco and Barefoot Bay ZCTA is 67.8, and 60.1 percent are 65 or older, in ACS 2020-2024 estimates.

Children are scarce in Micco and Barefoot Bay: in the ZCTA 32976 DP05 profile, 4.6 percent of residents are under 18. The DP02 social profile counts 5,297 households with an average of 1.73 people each, and 15.9 percent of civilian adults in the ZIP are veterans.

Income follows the age profile. The DP03 economic profile for ZCTA 32976, the Micco and Barefoot Bay ZIP, gives a median household income of $46,712 in 2024 dollars, and 72.4 percent of households in the ZIP receive Social Security income. Only 31.4 percent of residents 16 and over in the ZIP are in the labor force.

The Barefoot Bay Recreation District and the county's South Mainland / Micco Public Library both carry 32976 addresses, one written as Barefoot Bay, FL and the other as Micco, FL.

The Barefoot Bay Recreation District lists its office at 625 Barefoot Blvd., Barefoot Bay, FL 32976, phone 772 664 3141. The Brevard County library page lists the South Mainland / Micco Public Library at 7921 Ron Beatty Blvd., Micco, FL 32976, phone (772) 664-4066.

Both the Barefoot Bay and Micco phone numbers use the 772 area code. The library page sits on the Brevard County government website, brevardfl.gov, under Library Services.