City of Cape Canaveral, Florida: General Information

Cape Canaveral is a city in located in Brevard County, in the State of Florida, United States.  From 2000 census figures the population stood at 8,829, and estimations calculated by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2008 approximated that the population was 10,147.  The city is part of the Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville Metropolitan Statistical Area along the Atlantic Ocean Coast in the central portion of the state.

Other census results in 2000 show that there are 5,066 households, and 2,097 families residing in the city of Cape Canaveral.  Population density figures are 3,788.0 inhabitants per square mile, and there are 6,641 housing units at an average density of 2,849.3 per square mile.  Of the 5,066 households, 11.9% included children under the age of 18 residing in them, and 30.7% were married couples living together.  Other statistics show that 7.4% of households had a female householder with no husband present, and 58.6% were sharing housing but not related.  Individuals living alone comprised 47.1% of all households, and 13.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.  The average household size was 1.74 persons, with an average family size 2.41.

In the City of Cape Canaveral the entire population was dispersed with 11.3% being under the age of 18, and 6.4% were aged from 18 to 24.  Other age ranges include 30.4% from 25 to 44, 28.8% from 45 to 64, and 23.1% who were 65 years of age or older.  The median age in Cape Canaveral at the 2000 Census was 46 years.  For every 100 females, there were 109.1 males, though for every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 107.7 males.

Economically speaking, the median income for a Cape Canaveral household was $30,858, and the median income for a family was $43,109.   Males in the city had a median income of $33,571 versus $22,423 for females. The per capita income for the Cape Canaveral was $23,537. About 9.2% of families and 11.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 28.7% of those under age 18 and 7.1% of those age 65 or over.