Gifford is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Indian River County, Florida, United States. It is allowance of the Sebastian–Vero Beach Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,511 at the 2020 census. Gifford has a rich African American history.

The concurrence of Gifford was organized in the mid-1880s, according to the Indian River County Historical Society. The area was named as the Woodley precinct in the 1900 census, and as a concurrence village for black families, the community grew. By 1893, the in front settlers of Gifford had been allied by black laborers who had agree work on Henry Flagler’s further railroad project, the Florida East Coast Railway. The residents named the little agricultural community Brownsville after farmer William Brown who granted there in 1880s, but unusual town in North Florida carried the same name. Instead, the community was named after Charlie Gifford, the railroad’s stationmaster and Henry T. Gifford’s son.

The town’s first school was built in 1898, but unaided served white children. In 1901 William Edward Geoffrey, a black man from Darlington, South Carolina who had inherit work on the railroad, set up university for black children. The college served as the heart of the community and remained Gifford High School until integration, and the last graduating class was in 1969, before transitioning into the center school.

In 2018, the Historic Macedonia Church was converted into the Gifford Historical Museum by the Gifford Community Cultural & Resource Center (GCCRC).