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Total population: 77,351 (Urban population: 77,328, Rural population: 23 (all nonfarm))

Melbourne, Florida Age and Sex of Residents

Houses: 33,678 (30,796 occupied: 19,108 owner occupied, 11,688 renter occupied)

% of renters here:	38%
State:	30%

Housing density: 1115 houses/condos per square mile

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Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses and condos in 2007 in this state: $289,425.

Median contract rent in 2007: $744 (lower quartile is $583, upper quartile is $929)

Housing units in Melbourne with a mortgage: 11,307 (1,356 second mortgage, 864 home equity loan, 25 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 4,862

Melbourne,FL index of house prices

Estimated median house or condo value in 2007: $178,600 (it was $80,300 in 2000)

Melbourne:	$178,600
Florida:	$230,400

Lower value quartile - upper value quartile: $137,000 - $237,900

Mean price in 2007:

Detached houses: $226,482
Here: $226,482
State: $334,342

Townhouses or other attached units: $184,353
Here: $184,353
State: $258,333

In 2-unit structures: $225,000
Here: $225,000
State: $289,450

In 3-to-4-unit structures: $160,402
Here: $160,402
State: $240,504

In 5-or-more-unit structures: $170,676
Here: $170,676
State: $281,565

Mobile homes: $20,007
Here: $20,007
State: $43,568

Median year house/condo built: 1980

Median year apartment built: 1982

Household type by relationship

Households: 68,294

In family households: 53,298 (13,676 male householders, 4,774 female householders)
13,848 spouses, 16,540 children (15,193 natural, 465 adopted, 882 stepchildren), 1,273 grandchildren, 421 brothers or sisters, 479 parents, 954 other relatives, 1,333 non-relatives
In nonfamily households: 14,996 (5,607 male householders (4,195 living alone)), 6,641 female householders (5,882 living alone)), 2,748 nonrelatives
In group quarters: 3,077 (1,577 institutionalized population)

Size of family households: 9,207 2-persons, 4,258 3-persons, 3,095 4-persons, 1,307 5-persons, 388 6-persons, 195 7-or-more-persons.

Size of nonfamily households: 10,077 1-person, 1,856 2-persons, 240 3-persons, 60 4-persons, 15 5-persons.

8,624 married couples with children.
4,227 single-parent households (885 men, 3,342 women).

89.5% of residents of Melbourne speak English at home.
4.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
3.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 6% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
1.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (55% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (62% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 3% speak English not well, 12% don't speak English at all).

Foreign born population: 5,593 (7.8%)
(45.9% of them are naturalized citizens)

Median number of rooms in houses and condos:

Here:	5.9
State:	5.6

Median number of rooms in apartments:

Here:	3.8
State:	3.8

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Rooms in owner-occupied houses in Melbourne, Florida:
	1 room: 28 2 rooms: 221 3 rooms: 816 4 rooms: 2,120 5 rooms: 4,203 6 rooms: 5,197 7 rooms: 3,790 8 rooms: 1,930 9 or more rooms: 803

Rooms in renter-occupied apartments in Melbourne, Florida:
	1 room: 658 2 rooms: 1,647 3 rooms: 2,704 4 rooms: 3,311 5 rooms: 2,018 6 rooms: 908 7 rooms: 231 8 rooms: 156 9 or more rooms: 55

Year house built:

1999 to March 2000: 633
1995 to 1998: 2,313
1990 to 1994: 3,916
1980 to 1989: 9,601
1970 to 1979: 5,678
1960 to 1969: 6,241
1950 to 1959: 4,215
1940 to 1949: 463
1939 or earlier: 618

Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses and condos in Melbourne:
	no bedroom: 54 1 bedroom: 801 2 bedrooms: 3,985 3 bedrooms: 10,704 4 bedrooms: 3,260 5 or more bedrooms: 304

Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments in Melbourne:
	no bedroom: 767 1 bedroom: 4,129 2 bedrooms: 4,557 3 bedrooms: 1,949 4 bedrooms: 262 5 or more bedrooms: 24

Owners and renters by unit type in %

Breakdown of mean house values by ages of householders

Cars and other vehicles available in Melbourne in owner-occupied houses/condos:
	no vehicle: 708 1 vehicle: 7,558 2 vehicles: 8,533 3 vehicles: 1,753 4 vehicles: 405 5 or more vehicles: 151

Cars and other vehicles available in Melbourne in n renter-occupied apartments
	no vehicle: 1,594 1 vehicle: 6,714 2 vehicles: 2,931 3 vehicles: 398 4 vehicles: 25 5 or more vehicles: 26

Estimate of home value of owner-occupied houses in 2007 in Melbourne, FL:

Less than $10,000: 189
$10,000 to $14,999: 95
$15,000 to $19,999: 95
$20,000 to $24,999: 97
$25,000 to $29,999: 99
$30,000 to $34,999: 98
$35,000 to $39,999: 95
$40,000 to $49,999: 230
$50,000 to $59,999: 228
$60,000 to $69,999: 220
$70,000 to $79,999: 314
$80,000 to $89,999: 424
$90,000 to $99,999: 657
$100,000 to $124,999: 1971
$125,000 to $149,999: 2522
$150,000 to $174,999: 2426
$175,000 to $199,999: 2575
$200,000 to $249,999: 3216
$250,000 to $299,999: 1893
$300,000 to $399,999: 1531
$400,000 to $499,999: 523
$500,000 to $749,999: 533
$750,000 to $999,999: 103
$1,000,000 or more: 57

Melbourne rent paid by renters for apartments graph

Rent paid by renters in 2007 in Melbourne:

Less than $100: 194 people
$100 to $149: 103
$150 to $199: 168
$200 to $249: 164
$250 to $299: 173
$300 to $349: 226
$350 to $399: 196
$400 to $449: 240
$450 to $499: 413
$500 to $549: 671
$550 to $599: 726
$600 to $649: 694
$650 to $699: 918
$700 to $749: 1,063
$750 to $799: 1,222
$800 to $899: 1,713
$900 to $999: 1,268
$1,000 to $1,249: 908
$1,250 to $1,499: 201
$1,500 to $1,999: 63
$2,000 or more: 310
No cash rent: 322

Year of entry for the foreign-born population
	1995 to March 2000: 1,616 1990 to 1994: 757 1985 to 1989: 499 1980 to 1984: 368 1975 to 1979: 476 1970 to 1974: 371 1970 to 1974: 376 1965 to 1969: 1,130

Melbourne, FL Time Leaving Home for Work

Percentage of workers working in this county: 95.2%
Number of people working at home: 605 (1.9% of all workers)

Travel time to work

Less than 5 minutes: 961
5 to 9 minutes: 3886
10 to 14 minutes: 6568
15 to 19 minutes: 6895
20 to 24 minutes: 5374
25 to 29 minutes: 1371
30 to 34 minutes: 2892
35 to 39 minutes: 339
40 to 44 minutes: 404
45 to 59 minutes: 1261
60 to 89 minutes: 868
90 or more minutes: 702

Melbourne mode of transportation to work chart

Means of transportation to work

Drove a car alone: 26,571 (83%)
Carpooled: 3,711 (12%)
Bus or trolley bus: 67 (0%)
Taxi: 32 (0%)
Motorcycle: 106 (0%)
Bicycle: 282 (1%)
Walked: 610 (2%)
Other means: 142 (0%)
Worked at home: 605 (2%)

Household income:

Less than $10,000: 3138
$10,000 to $14,999: 2509
$15,000 to $19,999: 2408
$20,000 to $24,999: 2710
$25,000 to $29,999: 2259
$30,000 to $34,999: 2506
$35,000 to $39,999: 2073
$40,000 to $44,999: 2122
$45,000 to $49,999: 1659
$50,000 to $59,999: 2665
$60,000 to $74,999: 2493
$75,000 to $99,999: 2231
$100,000 to $124,999: 893
$125,000 to $149,999: 458
$150,000 to $199,999: 277
$200,000 or more: 297

First ancestries reported:

Other groups: 12292

German: 7922

English: 6430

Irish: 6390

United States or American: 5124

Italian: 4988

French (except Basque): 2011

Polish: 1532

Scottish: 1388

Scotch-Irish: 1043

Dutch: 1033

French Canadian: 727

European: 561

Norwegian: 556

Swedish: 548

British: 506

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups):: 450

Arab:: 446

Subsaharan African:: 413

Russian: 372

African: 282

Welsh: 280

Canadian: 272

Jamaican: 253

Hungarian: 237

Lithuanian: 223

Greek: 203

Austrian: 189

Danish: 182

Arab/Arabic: 166

Czech: 165

Portuguese: 161

Czechoslovakian: 149

Ukrainian: 145

Nigerian: 124

Scandinavian: 121

Slovak: 120

Lebanese: 107

Finnish: 97

Iranian: 94

Swiss: 91

Other Arab: 77

Slovene: 69

British West Indian: 59

Croatian: 53

Northern European: 46

Palestinian: 40

Celtic: 37

Maltese: 36

Brazilian: 36

Pennsylvania German: 33

Trinidadian and Tobagonian: 32

Armenian: 32

Syrian: 30

West Indian: 29

Guyanese: 28

Turkish: 24

Belgian: 24

Bahamian: 23

Eastern European: 19

Moroccan: 19

Slavic: 18

Romanian: 17

U.S. Virgin Islander: 15

Barbadian: 14

Yugoslavian: 14

Luxemburger: 12

Haitian: 10

Bulgarian: 9

Basque: 9

Dutch West Indian: 9

Israeli: 8

Egyptian: 7

Other Subsaharan African: 7

Serbian: 6

Bermudan: 6

Australian: 5

Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents (%):

Canada (9%)
United Kingdom (8%)
Germany (8%)
India (6%)
Mexico (6%)
Philippines (5%)
Jamaica (4%)

Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:

This state: 19376
Northeast: 18650
Midwest: 10703
South: 12576
West: 2482

48% of Melbourne residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 30% lived in Florida.

Education attainment for males 25 years and older:

No schooling: 79
Nursery to 4th grade: 99
5th and 6th grade: 157
7th and 8th grade: 520
9th grade: 453
10th grade: 546
11th grade: 598
12th grade, no diploma: 684
High school graduate (or equivalency): 6,275
Less than 1 year of college: 2,071
Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 3,852
Associate degree: 2,123
Bachelor's degree: 3,735
Master's degree: 1,651
Professional school degree: 436
Doctorate degree: 212

Educational Attainment for Males

Education attainment for females 25 years and older:

No schooling: 204
Nursery to 4th grade: 88
5th and 6th grade: 183
7th and 8th grade: 678
9th grade: 430
10th grade: 724
11th grade: 809
12th grade, no diploma: 1,093
High school graduate (or equivalency): 8,420
Less than 1 year of college: 2,660
Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 4,081
Associate degree: 2,473
Bachelor's degree: 3,197
Master's degree: 1,115
Professional school degree: 204
Doctorate degree: 85

Educational Attainment for Females

Class of Workers

Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic males: 5.3%
Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic females: 4.8%

Unemployment rate for Black males: 10.0%
Unemployment rate for Black females: 7.9%

Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native males: 7.8%
Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native females: 10.3%

Unemployment rate for Asian males: 6.9%
Unemployment rate for Asian females: 5.8%

Unemployment rate for other race males: 15.8%
Unemployment rate for other race females: 4.7%

Unemployment rate for two or more race males: 5.0%
Unemployment rate for two or more race females: 6.4%

Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino males: 8.6%
Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino females: 5.4%

Median household income in 2007 for:

White non-Hispanic householders: $41,751
Black householders: $37,708
American Indian and Alaska Native householders: $32,722
Asian householders: $65,797
Some other race householders: $35,806
Two or more races householders: $65,347
Hispanic or Latino race householders: $27,009

Melbourne household income for White non-Hispanic householders

Melbourne household income for Black householders

Melbourne household income for Asian householders

Melbourne household income for Two or more races householders

Melbourne household income for Hispanic or Latino race householders

Melbourne marital status for males

Melbourne marital status for females

Median 2007 house value for:

White Non-Hispanic householders: $192,834
Black or African American householders: $125,442
American Indian or Alaska Native householders: $135,451
Asian householders: $238,207
Some other race householders: $195,058
Two or more races householders: $216,855
Hispanic or Latino householders: $186,829

Housing units in structures:

One, detached: 19,209
One, attached: 1,101
Two: 641
3 or 4: 1,886
5 to 9: 3,046
10 to 19: 2,516
20 to 49: 914
50 or more: 2,053
Mobile homes: 2,197
Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 115

Median worth of mobile homes: $25,700

Housing units lacking complete plumbing facilities: 1%

Housing units lacking complete kitchen facilities: 1%

Year Householders Moved Into Unit in Melbourne:

Most commonly used house heating fuel in houses and condos:
	Electricity (71%) Utility gas (24%) Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%) Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%) No fuel used (1%)

Most commonly used house heating fuel in apartments:
	Electricity (88%) Utility gas (9%) No fuel used (1%) Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)

Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 978

Here:	14.5%
Florida:	11.7%

Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 438

Here:	12.9%
Florida:	9.7%

Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,997

Here:	45.1%
Florida:	21.0%

School Enrollment by Level of School for Male Students

School Enrollment by Level of School for Female Students

Age and Sex of Sensory-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Physically-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Mentally-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Self-Care Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Go-Outside-Home Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Residents with Employment Disability (Noninst.)

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