Brevard County, FL Development Impact Fees (2026)

What a single-family home pays in Brevard County

$9,838 total per unit across 6 fee categories.

At $9,838, Brevard County is below the Florida tracked median of $29,203 — relatively affordable to build in.

Full fee schedule — single-family

Full fee schedule — multifamily

Coverage & caveats

All figures are from the official Brevard County Residential Impact Fee Schedule, effective January 2, 2017 (sources 0/1), the single consolidated countywide schedule Brevard uses. WHAT EXISTS: Brevard County collects exactly SEVEN impact-fee categories countywide, confirmed verbatim on the County's Impact Fees Home page (source 2): Transportation, Educational Facilities (school), Fire/Rescue, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Correctional Facilities (county jail capacity), Library Facilities, and Solid Waste (landfill capacity). The County assesses/collects impact fees for the unincorporated county AND all 16 cities, but amounts vary by jurisdiction per inter-local agreement (the schedule has 5 tables). The PRIMARY rows here use TABLE 1 = Unincorporated County (plus West Melbourne, Palm Shores, Grant-Valkaria) — the correct table for a builder in the unincorporated county. Single-family detached totals (Table 1): Transportation $4,353.00 + School $5,096.50 + Fire/Rescue $54.08 + EMS $38.65 + Correctional $71.99 + Library $63.84 + Solid Waste $160.00 = $9,838.06 total (verified verbatim against the schedule's printed Total). Fees are NOT tiered by home square footage — single rate per dwelling for detached; multifamily is tiered by type/stories (duplex/townhouse/condo/apartment, 1-2 vs 3+ stories). CURRENCY: These 2017 rates are still current. A 2016 study recommended a ~67% transportation increase that the Commission declined to adopt; fire/EMS fees are reported as decades old; and per source 5 the Commission only recently voted to commission a comprehensive study of ALL impact fees — meaning no new schedule has been adopted. The PDF linked on the County site today (172 KB) is the same Jan 2, 2017 schedule archived in Feb 2025, corroborating that it remains in force as of 2026-06-17. CATEGORIES THAT DO NOT EXIST as Brevard County impact fees: NO PARKS / recreation impact fee; NO general law-enforcement/POLICE impact fee (the County instead levies a Correctional Facilities/jail fee, mapped here to the 'police' enum as the nearest public-safety category); NO DRAINAGE/stormwater impact fee; NO OPEN-SPACE impact fee; NO AFFORDABLE-HOUSING impact fee; NO general/capital 'mobility' fee; and NO standalone water or sewer CONNECTION impact fee in the impact-fee schedule. ENUM MAPPING CAVEATS: EMS mapped to 'fire'; Correctional Facilities mapped to 'police'; Solid Waste mapped to 'general' (no exact enums exist for these three). WATER/SEWER CONNECTION FEES — IMPORTANT: I could NOT report a specific flat per-dwelling water or sewer connection/capacity fee, and none was found published as a fixed dollar amount. Reasons, all verified: (1) Brevard County Utility Services provides SANITARY SEWER countywide but provides POTABLE WATER to only two small areas — Mims and San Sebastian Woods (most water service is by city utilities: Melbourne, Palm Bay, Cocoa, Titusville, etc.), so there is no countywide water connection fee (source 3). (2) The County's Utility FAQ (source 4) states that the cost of constructing new water/sewer/reclaimed lines is borne by the benefiting properties — typically built by the subdivision developer (cost rolled into lot price) or financed through MSBU special assessments — rather than a flat published tap fee. (3) Connection charges are calculated per project by Utility Development staff and set by rate resolution; a builder must contact Brevard County Utility Services or the relevant city utility for the project-specific connection charge. Rather than invent a number, water_connection and sewer_connection rows are OMITTED. DATA QUALITY: 14 active fee rows + 1 excludeFromTotal alternate-tier row, all verified verbatim against the official schedule (source 0, full text obtained via the Wayback-archived copy in source 1 because the live brevardfl.gov host blocks curl/WebFetch behind Cloudflare). Mobile-home and RV-pad residential rows in the schedule were omitted per residential single-family/multifamily focus. VERIFY: confirmed 15 of 15 rows (all 14 active + 1 excludeFromTotal); dropped 0. Every dollar amount was re-confirmed verbatim against the Wayback-archived official PDF (source 1, 175 KB, downloaded and parsed via pdftotext -layout): SFD Table 1 row = Transportation $4,353.00 / Fire-Rescue $54.08 / EMS $38.65 / Correctional $71.99 / Library $63.84 / Solid Waste $160.00 / Education $5,096.50 / Total $9,838.06 (printed total matches the sum exactly); Apartment 3+ stories Table 1 row = $2,381.00 / $30.99 / $22.15 / $41.25 / $37.91 / $120.00 / $1,940.50 / Total $4,573.80 (matches sum exactly); Duplex/Townhouse 1-2 stories Transportation = $2,677.00. All amounts matched to the cent. The live brevardfl.gov host returned an HTML/Cloudflare interstitial instead of the PDF (as the researcher noted), so primary verification relied on the Wayback copy; the seven-category list and 2017 schedule were independently corroborated via WebSearch snippets and a SpaceCoast HBCA mirror, and source 5 (Space Coast Rocket) was re-fetched and confirms transportation fees 'neglected for nearly two decades,' the declined 2016 67% increase, and the 4-1 vote to commission a ~$498K comprehensive impact-fee study. The County Utility pages (sources 3/4) 403'd to non-browser fetches but the sewer-countywide / water-only-Mims-&-San-Sebastian-Woods claim and absence of a flat connection fee were corroborated via WebSearch. excludeFromTotal corrections: NONE NEEDED — the single excludeFromTotal=true row (alternate MF transportation tier $2,677, Duplex/Townhouse 1-2 stories) is correctly flagged; it properly avoids double-counting against the representative MF transportation row ($2,381 Apartment 3+ stories). No double-counting detected: the SFD ($9,838.06) and MF-Apartment-3+ ($4,573.80) representative per-dwelling totals each match the schedule's own printed totals and are distinct land uses. All confidence levels ('high') are justified by verbatim primary-source confirmation.

Typical single-family detached home in UNINCORPORATED Brevard County (Table 1), per the schedule's own printed total: Transportation $4,353.00 + Educational/School $5,096.50 + Fire/Rescue $54.08 + EMS $38.65 + Correctional Facilities $71.99 + Library $63.84 + Solid Waste $160.00 = $9,838.06 in county impact fees per dwelling. The school fee ($5,096.50) and transportation fee ($4,353.00) together are ~96% of the total; the public-safety, library and solid-waste fees are very small. These rates have been frozen since Jan 2, 2017 and remain current as of 2026-06-17 (a comprehensive impact-fee study is underway but no new schedule has been adopted). Multifamily (representative: apartment, 3+ stories) total ~$4,573.80/unit (School $1,940.50 + Transportation $2,381.00 + small public-safety/library/solid-waste fees). NOT INCLUDED: water/sewer connection/capacity fees — Brevard County Utility Services provides sewer countywide but water only to Mims & San Sebastian Woods, and connection costs are developer-built or MSBU-financed rather than a flat published per-unit fee; builders must obtain the project-specific connection charge from Brevard County Utility Services or the serving city utility. If the home is inside an incorporated city, use that city's table (Tables 2-5) and confirm any additional city-only impact fees.

Sources

6 official sources · 15 high-confidence figures.

Brevard County impact fees — FAQ

How much are development impact fees in Brevard County, FL for a single-family home?

As of 2026-06-17, total development fees for a single-family detached home in Brevard County are about $9,838 per unit — roughly $9,838 in impact/development fees plus $0 in water/sewer connection fees. Figures are normalized from official sources; verify with the jurisdiction before relying on them.

What are the impact fees per multifamily unit in Brevard County, FL?

Total development fees for a multifamily unit in Brevard County are about $4,574 per unit as of 2026-06-17.

Are impact fees in Brevard County the same as building permit fees?

No. Impact fees (and water/sewer connection fees) fund off-site capital — roads, parks, schools, utilities — and are charged per new dwelling unit. Building permit and plan-review fees are separate and are not included here.

How often do Brevard County's impact fees change?

Most jurisdictions adopt fees by ordinance and escalate them annually (often by a construction cost index), with occasional mid-year updates. Always confirm the current adopted schedule with the jurisdiction. ImpactFeeAtlas last verified Brevard County on 2026-06-17.