Vero Beach is a city in Indian River County, Florida, USA. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2006 estimates, the city had a population of 16,939. It is the county seat of Indian River County. Vero Beach is a Principal City of the Sebastian–Vero BeachMetropolitan Statistical Area, which is home to 130,100 people.

Vero Beach is the location of Holman Stadium, where the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgersbaseball team held their spring training camp from 1948 until 2008 when it moved to a new facility in Glendale, Arizona. The stadium was also the home to the minor leagueVero Beach Devil Rays; however, in August 2008 the franchise was sold to the Ripken Baseball Group and did not return to Vero Beach for the 2009 season. In 2009, Holman Stadium was leased to Minor League Baseball, and there is no word yet if a new team will make it its home.

Piper Aircraft Inc. builds aircraft here. Major industries include citrus fruit packing andtourism.

Vero Beach is located at 27°38?31?N 80°23?28?W (27.641817, ?80.391105). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 12.93 square miles (33.5 km2). 11.07 square miles (28.7 km2) of it is land and 1.85 square miles (4.8 km2) of it (14.31%) is water.

The city is divided by the Indian River Lagoon into the mainland on one side and Orchid Island, the oceanfront barrier island on the other. The island’s population consists of a wide variety of incomes, including many second home owners and those living in upscale gated communities. Restrictive zoning has allowed the island to repel attempts to develop high-rise hotels and large commercial centers, so it maintains a quiet, residential atmosphere.

According to the World Almanac and Book of Facts, Vero Beach is at the eastern end of a demarcation line that separates Florida’s climate into two zones: To the north, a humid subtropical climate and, to the south, a tropical climate. From Vero Beach, this line stretches straight across the state, with Bradenton on the western end of the demarcation line.