Sherwood Park, the honest version.
Eight hundred eighty-five homes, one of the largest single-named communities I track in Brevard, likely named for the real city park at its center, and a completely different, unrelated Sherwood Park in Titusville to watch for.
A real park, and a real namesake mix-up.
Sherwood Park is one of the largest single-named communities I track in Brevard, 885 homes across thirteen recorded plats, built out mostly in the 1960s. I could not confirm the developer's original naming decision, but there is a real, physical anchor worth knowing: the City of Melbourne owns and operates an actual park named Sherwood Park, at 2479 Post Road, with a pool, ballfields and a playground, sitting right inside this neighborhood. That is very likely where the name comes from, though I do not have the primary plat document to confirm which came first. What I can confirm with more certainty is the mix-up to avoid: Titusville has its own, completely separate Sherwood Park, a different neighborhood roughly 25 miles north, built around a different Sherwood Golf Course. Same county, same name, two different places. Confirm which one a search result is actually describing.
What 885 homes look like on paper.
I keep the full Brevard property roll on hand, every parcel, not a listing-site sample. This is all of Sherwood Park as the county appraiser sees it, across 13 recorded plats.
Source: Brevard County Property Appraiser public roll, mid-2026. Sale medians are recorded sale prices, not appraiser market value.
Three Sherwood Park realities to price in.
A population figure circulating online is wrong, and it is a useful warning sign
One aggregator page lists Sherwood Park's population as 41,342, which cannot be correct for an 885-home neighborhood and almost certainly reflects a ZIP-code-wide statistic mismatched to this specific page. I am flagging this not just to correct it, but because it is a good general lesson: aggregator "neighborhood" pages frequently pull a wider area's numbers and present them as hyperlocal fact. Treat any specific-sounding stat you find for this community with the same skepticism until you can trace where it actually came from.
A 1960 median means the roof, the panel and the plumbing are all real questions
This is among the oldest medians of any community I have published. In Florida in 2026, a four-point inspection can decide whether a policy gets written at all on a house this age, and insurers price roof age above almost everything else. Also ask specifically about the electrical panel brand, Federal Pacific and Zinsco panels from this era are widely flagged as fire-risk by inspectors, and about original plumbing material. None of these are guaranteed present on any given house, but all are worth asking about by name.
The shared amenity here is a city park, not a private clubhouse
Sherwood Park's namesake, if the park really is the namesake, is a City of Melbourne-owned public facility with a pool, ballfields and a playground, open to the public, not gated to residents. That is a real amenity and a real reason to like the neighborhood, but it also means it is not exclusive to homeowners here the way a private HOA clubhouse would be, and it is not something an HOA fee is paying for.
Three things I could not source.
Three things I would rather show you the gap on than fill with a mismatched aggregator stat.
Confirmation that no HOA exists
I found no association, no registry entry and no special district for this community, but an absence of a hit is not the same as a confirmed negative. Verify directly with the seller or the closing documents rather than assuming.
The original developer and the exact naming story
I could not confirm who developed Sherwood Park or pin down whether the neighborhood or the city park came first. If you find the primary plat document, I would like to see it.
Your school zoning and flood zone
Both assigned by address, not by subdivision, and both get redrawn. A community spread across 13 plats can split across attendance zones at the edges. Verify the exact address with Brevard Public Schools, and pull the flood zone at FEMA's Map Service Center. My flood zone guide walks through what it means for your insurance bill.
If it is the era you are shopping.
Windover Farms of Melbourne sits nearby and runs a larger-lot version of a similar established Melbourne story, worth comparing if space matters more than price per square foot. The Melbourne guide covers the wider market.
Questions people actually ask.
Is this Sherwood Park the same as the Sherwood Park in Titusville?
No. Titusville has its own separate Sherwood Park, a different neighborhood built around a different Sherwood Golf Course, roughly 25 miles north of this Melbourne community. Same county, same name, two different places. If a search result, a review or an HOA rule does not clearly say Melbourne, confirm which Sherwood Park it is actually describing before you rely on it.
Where does the Sherwood Park name come from?
I could not confirm the original developer's naming decision, but there is a real, verifiable anchor worth knowing: the City of Melbourne owns and operates an actual park named Sherwood Park at 2479 Post Road, with a pool, ballfields and a playground, sitting inside this neighborhood. That is very likely the namesake, though I do not have a primary document confirming which came first, the park or the subdivision name.
Does Sherwood Park have an HOA?
I found no HOA website, no state registry entry and no special district covering this Melbourne community. The searches I ran for a Sherwood Park HOA turned up only unrelated associations in Delray Beach and Deerfield Beach, nothing tied to this neighborhood. Given the 1960 median build year and that the community's shared recreation amenity is a city-owned park rather than a private clubhouse, no HOA is plausible, but I have not confirmed that as a certainty. Verify directly rather than assuming.
How many people live in Sherwood Park?
I am not going to repeat the population figure that shows up on some aggregator pages. One shows 41,342, which cannot be right for an 885-home neighborhood and almost certainly reflects a ZIP-code-wide statistic mismatched to this specific community page. Treat any population number attached to this neighborhood online with the same skepticism.
Looking at a Sherwood Park listing? No pressure.
Tell me the address and I will confirm you have the Melbourne Sherwood Park, not the Titusville one, before you get attached to a listing. No drip campaign, no calls.