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Unincorporated Indian River County, Indian River County: licensed businesses
Active food service, lodging and alcoholic beverage licenses placed in Unincorporated Indian River 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 Indian River County12 months to Aug 2026: Food service 19; Lodging, except vacation rentals n/a; Vacation rentals n/a; Alcoholic beverages 7
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 | 1 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Oct 2025 | 0 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Nov 2025 | 1 | n/a | n/a | 1 |
| Dec 2025 | 4 | n/a | n/a | 1 |
| Jan 2026 | 2 | n/a | n/a | 1 |
| Feb 2026 | 1 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Mar 2026 | 2 | n/a | n/a | 1 |
| Apr 2026 | 4 | n/a | n/a | 1 |
| May 2026 | 3 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Jun 2026 | 0 | n/a | n/a | 1 |
| Jul 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 months | 19 | n/a | n/a | 7 |
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 | 21 | ||
| Food service, seating | Food service | 2010-SEAT | 145 | ||
| Catering | Food service | 2013-CATR | 1 | ||
| Hot dog cart | Food service | 2014-HTDG | 1 | ||
| Mobile food dispensing vehicle | Food service | 2014-MFDV | 21 | ||
| Vending machine | Food service | 2015-VEND | 2 | ||
| Hotel | Lodging | 2001-HOTL | 8 | ||
| Motel | Lodging | 2002-MOTL | 6 | ||
| Nontransient apartment | Lodging | 2003-NAPT | 27 | ||
| Transient apartment | Lodging | 2003-TAPT | 2 | ||
| Vacation rental condominium, collective | Lodging | 2006-CNDO-CLCT | 2 | ||
| Vacation rental condominium, single | Lodging | 2006-CNDO-SNGL | 9 | ||
| Vacation rental dwelling, collective | Lodging | 2007-DWEL-CLCT | 11 | ||
| Vacation rental dwelling, group | Lodging | 2007-DWEL-GRP | 1 | ||
| Vacation rental dwelling, single | Lodging | 2007-DWEL-SNGL | 176 | ||
| Club | Alcoholic beverages | 11C | 5 | ||
| Club, golf | Alcoholic beverages | 11CG | 5 | ||
| Beer, package sales | Alcoholic beverages | 1APS | 1 | ||
| Beer, consumption on premises | Alcoholic beverages | 1COP | 1 | ||
| Beer and wine, package sales | Alcoholic beverages | 2APS | 71 | ||
| Beer and wine, consumption on premises | Alcoholic beverages | 2COP | 33 | ||
| Liquor package store (quota) | Alcoholic beverages | 3PS | 9 | ||
| Liquor, consumption on premises (quota) | Alcoholic beverages | 4COP | 3 | ||
| Liquor, consumption on premises (quota), special hotel or motel | Alcoholic beverages | 4COP-S | 2 | ||
| Liquor, consumption on premises (quota), special | Alcoholic beverages | 4COP-SBX | 1 | ||
| Liquor, consumption on premises (quota), special food service (restaurant) | Alcoholic beverages | 4COP-SFS | 25 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DISNEY'S VERO BEACH RESORT | Hotel | 9250 ISLAND GROVE TER, VERO BEACH 32963 | 208 | HOT4101043 |
| VERO BEACH INN AND SUITES | Motel | 8797 20TH ST, VERO BEACH 32966 | 114 | MOT4100095 |
| STAYBRIDGE SUITES | Hotel | 5155 20 ST, VERO BEACH 32966 | 109 | HOT4101336 |
| SPRINGHILL SUITES BY MARRIOTT VERO BEACH | Hotel | 5115 INDIAN RIVER BLVD, VERO BEACH 32967 | 83 | HOT4101330 |
| FAIRFIELD INN & SUITES VERO BEACH | Hotel | 9065 AMERICANA WAY, VERO BEACH 32966 | 80 | HOT4101337 |
| HOME2 SUITES BY HILTON VERO BEACH I-95 | Hotel | 9060 AMERICANA WAY, VERO BEACH 32966 | 80 | HOT4101338 |
| COMFORT SUITES VERO BEACH | Hotel | 9050 AMERICANA WAY, VERO BEACH 32966 | 75 | HOT4101331 |
| ECONOLODGE | Motel | 950 US HWY 1, VERO BEACH 32960 | 66 | MOT4100985 |
| HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS | Hotel | 9400 19 LN, VERO BEACH 32966 | 65 | HOT4101339 |
| SURE STAY PLUS BY BEST WESTERN | Hotel | 9330 19 LN, VERO BEACH 32966 | 65 | HOT4101328 |
| HAMPTON INN VERO BEACH | Motel | 9350 19 LN, VERO BEACH 32966 | 63 | MOT4101122 |
| HOWARD JOHNSON , VERO BEACH | Motel | 1985 90TH AVE, VERO BEACH 32966 | 63 | MOT4100582 |
| SEBASTIAN GARDENS INN & SUITE LLC | Transient apartment | 14415 US HWY 1, SEBASTIAN 32958 | 48 | TAP4101354 |
| SOURCE | Motel | 11330 US HWY 1, SEBASTIAN 32958 | 14 | MOT4101326 |
| ISLAND VIEW COTTAGES AT SEBASTIAN | Transient apartment | 11450 S INDIAN RIVER DR, SEBASTIAN 32958 | 12 | TAP4100123 |
| BLUE CYPRESS LAKESIDE CABINS | Motel | 21704 73 MANOR, VERO BEACH 32966 | 5 | MOT4101324 |
Of 589 active licenses here, 580 are placed in a city by their geocoded location (471 matched exactly by the Census geocoder) and 9 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
Indian River 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.