[4] Indian River County comprises the Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.

[5][6] The MSA is included in the Miami-Port St. Lucie-Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Combined Statistical Area.

Prior to 1821 the area of Indian River County was part of the Spanish colony of East Florida.

Fort Vinton was built for this purpose near the intersection of present-day Florida State Road 60 and 122nd Avenue.

GoLine is Indian River County's main method of public transportation.

Florida East Coast Railway serves a team yard in Vero Beach for off-line customers that don't have direct rail service via spurs.

There are two lumber and sheetrock/structural steel customers who receive boxcars, center beam and bulkhead flatcars, and occasionally- gondolas, at the team yard.

[25][26] Healthcare, education, government, and retail sales are important employment segments in Indian River County.

In 1992, indeed, Ross Perot came second, fifteen votes ahead of President-elect Bill Clinton, this being one of only four Florida counties where he did so.

[29] According to the Secretary of State's office, Republicans are a plurality of registered voters in Indian River County.