City · Volusia County, Florida

DeLand, Florida

DeLand is a city in Volusia County, Florida, part of the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL metro area. It has 41,611 residents. DeLand, Florida has a quality-of-life score of 36 out of 100 (low), ranking #10,013 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Florida it ranks #487 of 780 cities and towns. It ranks best on comfortable days (high), drinking water violations (low) and new business applications (high). It ranks worst on rent-burdened households (high), injury deaths (high) and rent as share of income (high).

36Low

Quality-of-life score: #10,013 of 15,651 cities and towns
Florida: #487 of 780 in FL
Population: 41,611 (2020-2024)
Land area: 20 mi²
Density: 2,132.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 1216875

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety18#12,734/15,637
Economy53#7,334/15,631
Housing13#12,985/14,977
Health33#10,394/15,609
Healthcare33#10,538/15,650
Environment74#3,997/15,453
Education64#5,615/15,649
Infrastructure45#8,541/15,650
Community24#11,921/15,651
Leisure & amenities72#4,448/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where DeLand, Florida ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Volusia County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Comfortable days · high35.7%
95/100Florida 32.4%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationVolusia County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Florida 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteVolusia County value
New business applications · high18.5 /1k
85/100Florida 27.6 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauVolusia County value
Days with unhealthy air · low0.0%
84/100Florida 0.2%2025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyVolusia County value
Depression · low20.6%
81/100Florida 18.0%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Arts, entertainment and recreation · high5.9 /10k
80/100Florida 5.9 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsVolusia County value

Weaknesses

Rent-burdened households · high58.3%
5/100Florida 60.1%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Injury deaths · high138 /100k
6/100Florida 97 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteVolusia County value
Rent as share of income · high35.7%
7/100Florida 35.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Public libraries · low0.2 /10k
12/100Florida 0.2 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesVolusia County value
Violent crime rate · high444 /100k
13/100Florida 261 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2022Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureVolusia County value
Hot days · high89 days
13/100Florida 102 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationVolusia County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
32,413 (2015-2019) → 41,611 (2020-2024)
+28%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
New homes permittedWorsening
20.9 /1k (2021) → 4.5 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−78%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
79.3% (2015-2019) → 92.4% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Median household incomeImproving
$47,925 (2015-2019) → $71,863 (2020-2024)
+50%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Child poverty rateImproving
22.0% (2015-2019) → 14.5% (2020-2024)
−7.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
42.3% (2015-2019) → 35.7% (2020-2024)
−6.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, DeLand, Florida improved on 7 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 6 moved within the margin of error and 1 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved7

Rent / income−6.6 points42.3% → 35.7%
Unemployment−2.5 points6.0% → 3.5%
Household income+50%$47,925 → $71,863
Poverty−5.5 points16.5% → 11.0%
Child poverty−7.4 points22.0% → 14.5%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of DeLand, Florida between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	24.2 min2015-2019	28.4 min2020-2024	+4.2 min	Within the margin of error	13%
Bachelor's degree or higher	28.8%2015-2019	33.7%2020-2024	+4.9 points	Improved	67%
Broadband subscriptions	79.3%2015-2019	92.4%2020-2024	+13 points	Improved	73%
Child poverty rate	22.0%2015-2019	14.5%2020-2024	−7.4 points	Improved	76%
Effective property tax rate	0.99%2015-2019	0.83%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Little change	51%
High school diploma or higher	90.9%2015-2019	92.3%2020-2024	+1.5 points	Within the margin of error	52%
Home price to income ratio	4.4×2015-2019	4.6×2020-2024	+0.2×	Within the margin of error	65%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4562015-2019	0.4472020-2024	−0.009	Within the margin of error	59%
Median household income	$47,9252015-2019	$71,8632020-2024	+50%	Improved	84%
Poverty rate	16.5%2015-2019	11.0%2020-2024	−5.5 points	Improved	83%
Rent as share of income	42.3%2015-2019	35.7%2020-2024	−6.6 points	Improved	87%
Rent-burdened households	62.4%2015-2019	58.3%2020-2024	−4.1 points	Within the margin of error	69%
Unemployment rate	6.0%2015-2019	3.5%2020-2024	−2.5 points	Improved	86%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	11.4%2015-2019	12.8%2020-2024	+1.5 points	Within the margin of error	30%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like DeLand, Florida five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of DeLand, Florida in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, DeLand, Florida itself moved +4.9 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

41,611 residents (±78)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79
60–69

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

15,703 households (±664)

DeLand, Florida
Florida share

Under $25k14%2,261
$25k–50k21%3,295
$50k–75k16%2,580

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

15,703 households (±664)

DeLand, Florida
Florida share

Own64%10,109
Rent36%5,594

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+7.6 points).

Table view

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

16,585 workers (±985)

DeLand, Florida
Florida share

Drive alone66%10,966
Carpool12%2,058
Public transit0.0%†7

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Volusia County, the county holding most of DeLand's residents.

Volusia County has 14,367 employer establishments, 243 for every 10,000 residents (0.98× the US rate of 248; 0.86× Florida's), with 164,490 paid employees at an average annual pay of $45,852. The Census Bureau also counts 58,977 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 14,367; 58,977 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 243; US 248 · Florida 282
Paid employees: 164,490
Average annual pay: $45,852; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Volusia County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	1,292	21.8	1.41×More than typical	8,021	$52,033	3,841
Ambulatory health care services	1,235	20.9	1.00×About typical	13,163	$65,447	3,086
Restaurants and other eating places	1,046	17.7	0.96×About typical	21,732	$22,561	263
Lessors of real estate	849	14.3	1.16×About typical	2,531	$44,162	5,890
Services to buildings and dwellings	687	11.6	1.72×More than typical	3,135	$37,101	4,868
Full-service restaurants	525	8.9	1.15×About typical	12,694	$25,230	108
Building equipment contractors	465	7.9	1.31×More than typical	3,634	$53,848	586
Offices of physicians	443	7.5	1.16×About typical	4,495	$97,542	414
Construction of buildings	442	7.5	0.99×About typical	2,120	$67,149	1,874
Limited-service restaurants	407	6.9	0.86×About typical	7,844	$18,760	91
Real estate agents and brokers	381	6.4	1.32×More than typical	673	$48,822	2,206
Offices of other health practitioners	375	6.3	1.04×About typical	1,825	$44,382	1,193

Rank places for an industry Open Volusia County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 591,936 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $3M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in DeLand, Florida: $72.42 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $3M; −15% vs FY2025
Per resident: $72.42; US $1,994
Sole-source: 68%; US 30%
Single offer: 1.3%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Department of the Army$2.2M74%
Department of the Navy$426.4K14%
Agricultural Marketing Service$251.9K8.4%
Defense Logistics Agency$73.2K2.4%
Department of the Air Force$55.8K1.9%
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$1,0970.0%

Top recipients

COMPLETE PARACHUTE SOLUTIONS, INC.$2M67%
VIGIL AMERICA INC$638.8K21%
PETERSON BRANDS, LLC$251.9K8.4%
PACIFIC DEFENSE CONTRACTING LLC$51.8K1.7%
AAC-AMERICAN AEROSPACE CORPORATION$37K1.2%

Spending by fiscal year

1.2MFY2017
2.1MFY2018
2MFY2019
2MFY2020
1.5MFY2021
1.9MFY2022
2.3MFY2023
3.3M

Top industries (NAICS)

Other textile product mills · 3149$2.2M74%
Technical and trade schools · 6115$423.3K14%
Fruit and vegetable preserving and specialty food manufacturing · 3114$251.9K8.4%
Petroleum and coal products manufacturing · 3241$51.8K1.7%
Aerospace product and parts manufacturing · 3364$45.4K1.5%
Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing · 3344$11.9K

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in DeLand, Florida, so they do not add up across cities.

DeLand, Florida's figures are part of those of Volusia County, FL ($105.5M in FY2026), never added to them: 2.9% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: DeLand is mostly in Volusia County.

See federal money in Volusia County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

DeLand, Florida is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Volusia County53100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL51

Other cities and towns in Volusia County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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