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Unincorporated Brevard County, Brevard County: licensed businesses
Active food service, lodging and alcoholic beverage licenses placed in Unincorporated Brevard County from DBPR's license files, by type, with new licenses by month.
Active licenses as of DBPR's extracts of Sep 28, 2026 (food service), Sep 28, 2026 (lodging) and Oct 1, 2026 (alcoholic beverages). New lodging licenses exclude vacation rentals, which have their own count.
New licenses
New licenses by monthUnincorporated Brevard County12 months to Aug 2026: Food service 27; Lodging, except vacation rentals n/a; Vacation rentals n/a; Alcoholic beverages 39
New food service and lodging licenses by the month DBPR approved them, from the new establishment files, initial licenses only. Alcoholic beverage licenses by the month first issued, licenses still active only, so earlier years understate openings. A month inside a published file with no new license is zero; a month no file covers is left blank. Closures recorded since the first extract: Food service 0, Lodging, except vacation rentals 0, Vacation rentals 0, Alcoholic beverages 0.
New licenses by month, last 12 months
| Month | Food service | Lodging, except vacation rentals | Vacation rentals | Alcoholic beverages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | 3 | n/a | n/a | 1 |
| Oct 2025 | 5 | n/a | n/a | 5 |
| Nov 2025 | 1 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Dec 2025 | 2 | n/a | n/a | 4 |
| Jan 2026 | 3 | n/a | n/a | 2 |
| Feb 2026 | 1 | n/a | n/a | 1 |
| Mar 2026 | 2 | n/a | n/a | 4 |
| Apr 2026 | 4 | n/a | n/a | 7 |
| May 2026 | 0 | n/a | n/a | 2 |
| Jun 2026 | 1 | n/a | n/a | 5 |
| Jul 2026 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Aug 2026 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 months | 27 | n/a | n/a | 39 |
n/a: no published file covers the month. See the explained gaps on the sources page.
Active licenses by type
| License type | Division | Code | Active | DBPR summary | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food service, non-seating | Food service | 2010-NOST | 31 | ||
| Food service, seating | Food service | 2010-SEAT | 320 | ||
| Catering | Food service | 2013-CATR | 3 | ||
| Hot dog cart | Food service | 2014-HTDG | 4 | ||
| Mobile food dispensing vehicle | Food service | 2014-MFDV | 71 | ||
| Vending machine | Food service | 2015-VEND | 3 | ||
| Hotel | Lodging | 2001-HOTL | 16 | ||
| Motel | Lodging | 2002-MOTL | 19 | ||
| Nontransient apartment | Lodging | 2003-NAPT | 44 | ||
| Transient apartment | Lodging | 2003-TAPT | 12 | ||
| Bed and breakfast | Lodging | 2005-BNB | 1 | ||
| Vacation rental condominium, collective | Lodging | 2006-CNDO-CLCT | 7 | ||
| Vacation rental condominium, group | Lodging | 2006-CNDO-GRP | 3 | ||
| Vacation rental condominium, single | Lodging | 2006-CNDO-SNGL | 55 | ||
| Vacation rental dwelling, collective | Lodging | 2007-DWEL-CLCT | 14 | ||
| Vacation rental dwelling, group | Lodging | 2007-DWEL-GRP | 2 | ||
| Vacation rental dwelling, single | Lodging | 2007-DWEL-SNGL | 127 | ||
| Club | Alcoholic beverages | 11C | 12 | ||
| Club, golf | Alcoholic beverages | 11CG | 6 | ||
| Caterer | Alcoholic beverages | 13CT | 5 | ||
| Beer, consumption on premises | Alcoholic beverages | 1COP | 1 | ||
| Beer and wine, package sales | Alcoholic beverages | 2APS | 150 | ||
| Beer and wine, consumption on premises | Alcoholic beverages | 2COP | 85 | ||
| Liquor package store (quota) | Alcoholic beverages | 3PS | 24 | ||
| Liquor, consumption on premises (quota) | Alcoholic beverages | 4COP | 26 | ||
| Liquor, consumption on premises (quota), special hotel or motel | Alcoholic beverages | 4COP-S | 11 | ||
| Liquor, consumption on premises (quota), SAX | Alcoholic beverages | 4COP-SAX | 1 | ||
| Liquor, consumption on premises (quota), special | Alcoholic beverages | 4COP-SBX | 1 | ||
| Liquor, consumption on premises (quota), special | Alcoholic beverages | 4COP-SCX | 1 | ||
| Liquor, consumption on premises (quota), special food service (restaurant) | Alcoholic beverages | 4COP-SFS | 73 |
Temporary event food vendors are in DBPR's file but not its summary, and are not counted. An alcohol license is active at primary status 20, Current; DBPR publishes no current alcohol summary to compare with.
Hotels, motels, bed and breakfasts and transient apartments
Every active license of these types here, with the rental units DBPR records. Apartments, rooming houses and vacation rentals are counted above and listed in the county CSV.
| Name | Type | Address | Units | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CROWNE PLAZA | Motel | 2605 N HWY A1A, MELBOURNE 32903 | 299 | MOT1501685 |
| DOUBLETREE SUITES BY HILTON MELBOURNE BEACH OCEANFRONT | Hotel | 1665 N SR A1A, MELBOURNE 32903 | 207 | HOT1502605 |
| HOMEWOOD SUITES CAPE CANAVERAL | Hotel | 9000 ASTRONAUT BLVD, CAPE CANAVERAL 32920 | 153 | HOT1505682 |
| DAYS INN TITUSVILLE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER | Motel | 3755 CHENEY HWY, TITUSVILLE 32780 | 141 | MOT1501583 |
| HOMEWOOD SUITES BY HILTON VIERA MELBOURNE | Hotel | 5487 ONATE LN, MELBOURNE 32955 | 131 | HOT1505718 |
| ELEMENT MELBOURNE BEACH | Hotel | 2655 N HWY A1A, MELBOURNE 32903 | 130 | HOT1505713 |
| HOLIDAY INN MELBORNE | Hotel | 8298 N WICKHAM RD, MELBOURNE 32940 | 128 | HOT1503844 |
| ISLAND HOTEL OF SPACE COAST | Motel | 260 E MERRITT ISLAND CSWY, MERRITT ISLAND 32952 | 128 | MOT1500941 |
| RAMADA INN | Hotel | 4225 W KING, COCOA 32926 | 120 | HOT1505708 |
| HOME2 SUITES BY HILTON | Hotel | 2404 METFIELD DR, MELBOURNE 32940 | 118 | HOT1505698 |
| FAIRFIELD INN & SUITES | Hotel | 2400 TOWN CENTER AVE, MELBOURNE 32940 | 116 | HOT1505688 |
| HAMPTON INN AND SUITES CAPE CANAVERAL | Hotel | 9004 ASTRONAUT BLVD, CAPE CANAVERAL 32920 | 116 | HOT1505691 |
| HOME2 SUITES CAPE CANAVERAL | Hotel | 9004 ASTRONAUT BLVD, CAPE CANAVERAL 32920 | 108 | HOT1505692 |
| AMERICA'S BEST VALUE INN | Motel | 180 HWY A1A, SATELLITE BCH 32937 | 104 | MOT1502303 |
| DAYS INN | Motel | 4500 W NEW HAVEN AVE, MELBOURNE 32904 | 97 | MOT1500427 |
| AVID BY IHG | Hotel | 125 SHERIFF DR, MELBOURNE 32940 | 95 | HOT1505707 |
| HAMPTON INN MELBOURNE VIERA | Hotel | 130 SHERIFF DR, MELBOURNE 32940 | 88 | HOT1505672 |
| BUDGET INN | Motel | 4150 W KING ST, COCOA 32926 | 84 | MOT1500917 |
| CANDLEWOOD SUITES | Hotel | 2930 PINEDA PLAZA WAY, MELBOURNE 32940 | 84 | HOT1505676 |
| HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS COCOA | Hotel | 301 TUCKER LN, COCOA 32926 | 75 | HOT1505593 |
| COMFORT INN & SUITES | Hotel | 4510 W NEW HAVEN AVE, MELBOURNE 32904 | 68 | HOT1505220 |
| COCOA BEACH HOTEL | Hotel | 3655 N ATLANTIC AVE, COCOA BCH 32931 | 48 | HOT1505378 |
| ALADDIN MOTEL | Motel | 430 W MERITT ISLAND CSWY, MERRITT ISLAND 32952 | 23 | MOT1500402 |
| ANTHONY'S ON THE BEACH | Motel | 3499 S ATLANTIC AVE, COCOA BEACH 32931 | 19 | MOT1500418 |
| SOUTH BEACH INN | Motel | 1701 S ATLANTIC AVE, COCOA BEACH 32931 | 18 | MOT1500461 |
| BLUE VIEW BEACH LLC | Transient apartment | 5815 S HWY A1A, MELBOURNE BEACH 32951 | 16 | TAP1501637 |
| HARBOR VIEW MOTEL | Motel | 8800 US HWY 1, MICCO 32976 | 16 | MOT1501488 |
| TRAVEL INN OF TITUSVILLE | Motel | 7503 S US HWY 1, TITUSVILLE 32780 | 15 | MOT1500372 |
| APOLLO INN | Motel | 4125 N US 1, COCOA 32927 | 14 | MOT1500429 |
| LOST INN PARADISE HOTEL | Motel | 2902 S ATLANTIC, COCOA BEACH 32931 | 13 | MOT1500381 |
| SEA SCAPE ACCOMMODATIONS LLC | Motel | 1745 N HWY A1A, INDIALANTIC 32903 | 13 | MOT1504414 |
| MOTEL FLORWIN | Transient apartment | 202 ROOSEVELT AVE, COCOA BCH 32931 | 12 | TAP1500608 |
| ATLANTIC VIEW APARTMENTS | Transient apartment | 310 MCKINLEY AVE UNIT A, COCOA BEACH 32931 | 10 | TAP1505782 |
| SANDMAN MOTEL | Motel | 3810 US 1 N, MIMS 32754 | 10 | MOT1500438 |
| BANANA RIVER RESORT | Transient apartment | 3590 S. ATLANTIC AVE., COCOA BEACH 32931 | 9 | TAP1505850 |
| CORONET MOTEL | Motel | 6010 U S HWY 1, SCOTTSMOOR 32775 | 9 | MOT1500484 |
| SEASHELL SUITES AT SEBASTIAN P | Motel | 8795 HWY A1A, MELBOURNE BCH 32951 | 9 | MOT1500752 |
| OCEAN TRAIL LODGE | Transient apartment | 2905 ATLANTIC ST, MELBOURNE BCH 32951 | 8 | TAP1504469 |
| OCEANFRONT PARADISE INC | Transient apartment | 1135 N A1A, INDIALANTIC 32903 | 8 | TAP1505449 |
| MELBOURNE BEACH MOTEL | Motel | 3120 S HWY A1A, MELBOURNE BEACH 32951 | 7 | MOT1500432 |
| OCEAN PINES MOTELS | Transient apartment | 5055 S HWY A1A, MELBOURNE BCH 32951 | 6 | TAP1500704 |
| FLORIDANA BEACH MOTEL | Motel | 6580 S HWY A1A, MELBOURNE BCH 32951 | 5 | MOT1500097 |
| WAYWARD TRAVELERS INN | Bed and breakfast | 2398 N SINGLETON AVE, MIMS 32754 | 5 | BNB1505607 |
| JUNE EDWARD INC | Transient apartment | 863 S PATRICK DR, SATELLITE BEACH 32937 | 3 | TAP1505883 |
| TURTLE RUN SUITES | Transient apartment | 4945 S HWY A1A, MELBOURNE BEACH 32951 | 3 | TAP1503153 |
| TWINFEATHERS LLC | Transient apartment | 6811 S HWY A1A, MELBOURNE BEACH 32951 | 3 | TAP1505616 |
| GINA LA DREW | Transient apartment | 6465 HWY A1A - 6467, MELBOURNE BEACH 32951 | 2 | TAP1505675 |
| PARADISE FOUND FLORIDA | Transient apartment | 5185 HWY A1A, MELBOURNE 32951 | 2 | TAP1505432 |
Of 1,128 active licenses here, 1,069 are placed in a city by their geocoded location (749 matched exactly by the Census geocoder) and 59 by the city name as filed, where the address could not be placed. Unincorporated means outside every Census incorporated place in the county.
Sources on this page
- Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation: public food service license files, public lodging license files (Division of Hotels and Restaurants, one file per district, refreshed weekly) and the retail alcoholic beverage license file (Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco). Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- Validated against DBPR's own summaries on every build: the statewide license summary (HR400A, dated Oct 1, 2026) and the county license and unit summary (HR400C, dated Oct 1, 2026), by license type, within 1.5% or 15 licenses for the days between the weekly extract and the monthly summary. The retail alcohol file is compared with DBPR's all licensees file, series by series and county by county, exactly. The last alcohol count DBPR posted by county is dated July 1, 2021 and is carried in the published counts download.
- Locations. Every license address was geocoded with the US Census Bureau batch geocoder (current benchmark) and placed in a Census incorporated place (TIGERweb, retrieved 2026-10-01) by point in polygon. DBPR publishes no GIS layer of its licenses.
- Sources and methods.
Download the data
Brevard County licenses CSV Every license, statewide (CSV, gzip) New licenses CSV (gzip) DBPR published counts CSV
One row per license with its type, status, address, county, geocoded coordinates, the city it was placed in and how. The new licenses file has every approval with its month; the published counts file has every figure from DBPR's summaries since 2017.