Melbourne has 49,794 single-family homes on Florida’s 2025 tax roll. 11,660 of them (23%) have no homestead exemption, which usually means the owner lives somewhere else, and 2,704 have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. Melbourne's absentee share, 23%, is lower than Brevard County's 25%. Below: how Melbourne sits inside Brevard County, and how to pull the list.
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homes with no homestead exemption, 23% of the city’s 49,794 single-family homes
Counted October 2026. Postal city, not city limits. Request Data’s City box also matches Melbourne Beach and West Melbourne, so its free count runs higher.
The numbers
Counted in October 2026 from Tracer’s Florida property data (the Florida Department of Revenue’s statewide 2025 parcel roll), with Brevard picked as the county. Each count names the Request Data filters behind it. “Absentee” means no homestead exemption, so second homes and recent buyers who haven’t filed are in it too.
single-family homes with a Melbourne address on the 2025 roll, government owners left out.
23% of them have no homestead exemption: usually a rental, a second home or an inherited house.
5% of the city’s homes: the tax bill goes to an address outside Florida (second homes and rentals alike).
10% are owned by an LLC, corporation or trust. Tracer traces them to a person where it can (how).
83% of the 49,747 with a year built on the roll were built in 2011 or earlier.
of Brevard County’s 53,356 absentee-owned single-family homes have a Melbourne address.
Counted by the city on the property's tax-roll address (the postal city), so it includes unincorporated areas with a Melbourne address. It is not the city limits.
Of the 49,747 single-family homes in Melbourne with a year built on the roll, 41,112 (83%) were built in 2011 or earlier. Statewide it is 81% of Florida's 5,990,343 single-family homes with a year built, so Melbourne's share is higher than Florida's; Brevard County's is 84%. The other 47 of Melbourne's 49,794 single-family homes have no year built on the roll, so they are in neither figure. Florida homes by year built, by county.
Against the county
More than a tenth of Brevard County's 211,335 single-family homes have a Melbourne address (24%), and so do 22% of its 53,356 absentee-owned ones: a smaller slice of the county's absentee-owned homes than of its homes.
| Measure | Melbourne | Brevard County | Florida |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single-family homes | 49,794 | 211,335 | 5,994,124 |
| Absentee-owned | 11,660 (23%) | 53,356 (25%) | 1,758,827 (29%) |
| Tax bill outside Florida | 2,704 (5%) | 13,301 (6%) | 505,837 (8%) |
| LLC, corporation or trust | 4,775 (10%) | 20,959 (10%) | 531,404 (9%) |
| Built 2011 or earlier | 41,112 (83%) | 177,923 (84%) | 4,854,759 (81%) |
Shares are of each place’s single-family homes; the built-2011 row is of the homes with a year built on the roll (49,747 in Melbourne, 210,618 in Brevard County, 5,990,343 statewide). Brevard County's single-family roll is the 10th largest among the 44 Florida counties with at least 10,000 single-family homes. The whole county, with its ranks and neighbors: Brevard County absentee owner lists.
What stands out
The four shares on this page, the one furthest from Brevard County’s first, each against Florida and the other city pages.
5% of Melbourne's 49,794 single-family homes (2,704) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. On this measure Melbourne looks like Brevard County as a whole, which is at 6%. Across Florida the figure is far higher: 8%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only four have a lower share.
23% of Melbourne's 49,794 single-family homes (11,660) have no homestead exemption. Brevard County's share is higher, 25%. Across Florida the figure is far higher: 29%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only one has a lower share.
10% of Melbourne's 49,794 single-family homes (4,775) are owned by an LLC, corporation or trust. On this measure Melbourne looks like Brevard County as a whole, which is at 10%. Florida's figure is about the same, 9%. That puts Melbourne in the middle of the 29 Florida cities with their own page: 11 have a higher share and 17 a lower one.
83% of Melbourne's 49,747 single-family homes with a year built on the roll (41,112) were built in 2011 or earlier. Brevard County's share is higher, 84%. Florida's figure is lower, at 81%. That puts Melbourne in the middle of the 29 Florida cities with their own page: 13 have a higher share and 15 a lower one.
Brevard County
Brevard County has two cities with their own page, and Melbourne is the smaller of them by single-family homes. Among the two Brevard County cities with their own page, Melbourne has the highest company-owned share and share built in 2011 or earlier, and the lowest absentee share and out-of-state share. By single-family homes, Melbourne sits mid-list among the 29 Florida cities with their own page: 18 have more and 10 fewer.
Request Data
The same filters as the counts above. The City box also matches Melbourne Beach and West Melbourne, so the app's count is higher than this page's.
No card. Counting is free; pulling records is what costs.
Open Request Data. The county comes first; the city narrows it.
It also catches Melbourne Beach and West Melbourne; the note below says what that does to the count.
Set Property type to Single family, turn on Absentee owner and press Get count & price.
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The City box matches any city on the roll that contains what you type, so “Melbourne” also matches Melbourne Beach and West Melbourne: the box's count will be higher than this page's, which leaves Melbourne Beach and West Melbourne out.
Cost
All 11,660 absentee-owned homes in Melbourne would be $58 to pull. You see the count and the price before you pay, and you can narrow by ZIP, value or year built first. Rather not pull it yourself? Get this list quoted: name Melbourne in the message and we reply with a count and a price, usually within one business day.
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Reach the owner
4,775 of Melbourne’s single-family homes (10%, against 9% statewide) are owned by an LLC, corporation or trust, so the name on the roll isn’t a person you can call. Pulling all of them is $24. Tracer works a company owner toward a person: a person named in the company’s name, otherwise its mailing address (marked lower confidence). To find the managers yourself, look the company up on Sunbiz: the LLC owner lookup guide shows how.
11,660 of the 49,794 single-family homes with a Melbourne address on Florida's 2025 tax roll (23%) have no homestead exemption, which usually means the owner lives somewhere else. Across Brevard County it's 25%; statewide, 29%.
2,704 single-family homes with a Melbourne address (5%) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. That's what the Out-of-state filter counts: second homes as well as rentals.
No. It counts the city on each property's tax-roll address (the postal city), so unincorporated areas with a Melbourne address are in it, and a home inside the city limits whose address names another city isn't. It also leaves out Melbourne Beach and West Melbourne, which the roll lists as cities of their own.
In Request Data (a free account), pick Brevard in the County box, type “Melbourne” in the City box, set Property type to Single family and turn on Absentee owner. The box also matches Melbourne Beach and West Melbourne, so its count will be higher than this page's. The count and the price show before you pull, at 0.5¢ a record.
More than a tenth of Brevard County's 211,335 single-family homes have a Melbourne address (24%), and so do 22% of its 53,356 absentee-owned ones: a smaller slice of the county's absentee-owned homes than of its homes. 5% of Melbourne's 49,794 single-family homes (2,704) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. On this measure Melbourne looks like Brevard County as a whole, which is at 6%. Across Florida the figure is far higher: 8%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only four have a lower share.
Brevard County absentee owner listsFurthest from the statewide figure is its out-of-state share. 5% of Melbourne's 49,794 single-family homes (2,704) have an owner who gets the tax bill outside Florida. On this measure Melbourne looks like Brevard County as a whole, which is at 6%. Across Florida the figure is far higher: 8%. Of the 29 Florida cities with their own page, only four have a lower share.
Melbourne is in Brevard County, so search the address or the owner's name on the Brevard County Property Appraiser's property search (www.bcpao.us). The parcel record shows the owner of record and where the tax bill goes, one property at a time; it isn't a title search. For every owner that matches a filter, use Request Data instead.
Brevard County Property Appraiser property search
Create a free account, open Request Data, pick Brevard and type “Melbourne” in the City box: the count and the price show before you pull. Rather not dial them yourself? Our callers can.