Metro area · Florida

Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL metro area

Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL is a metropolitan area of 2 counties in Florida, home to 746,933 residents. Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL metro area has a quality-of-life score of 51 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #457 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Florida it ranks #16 of 28. It ranks best on comfortable days (high), new business applications (high) and depression (low). It ranks worst on rent-burdened households (high), rent as share of income (high) and public libraries (low).

51Moderate
Quality-of-life score
#457 of 925 metro and micro areas
Florida
#16 of 28 in FL
Population
746,933 (2025)
Land area
1,587 mi²
Density
470.5 /mi²
CBSA code
19660

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 68 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL metro area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety32#631/924
  • Economy58#386/925
  • Housing11#825/925
  • Health58#390/925
  • Healthcare37#580/923
  • Environment75#229/917
  • Education65#322/925
  • Infrastructure59#384/925
  • Community44#515/925
  • Leisure & amenities72#259/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL metro area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

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.

Metro and micro areas like Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL metro area 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.

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).

Income

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

Homes

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

Getting to work

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

Jobs and pay

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

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.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Volusia CountyCentral county53606,573
  2. Flagler CountyCentral county66140,360

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. Daytona BeachPrincipal city78,992
  2. DeLandPrincipal city41,611
  3. DeltonaPrincipal city97,334
  4. Ormond BeachPrincipal city43,976

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. Palm Coast98,258
  2. Deltona97,334
  3. Daytona Beach78,992
  4. Port Orange64,767
  5. Ormond Beach43,976
  6. DeLand41,611
  7. New Smyrna Beach31,974
  8. Edgewater23,627
  9. DeBary22,869
  10. Orange City14,372
  11. South Daytona13,543
  12. Holly Hill13,084
  13. Ormond-by-the-Sea7,146
  14. Flagler Beach5,373
  15. Daytona Beach Shores5,188
  16. Samsula-Spruce Creek4,852
  17. Bunnell3,682
  18. West DeLand3,632
  19. Ponce Inlet3,435
  20. Lake Helen2,918
  21. De Leon Springs2,687
  22. Oak Hill1,694
  23. Glencoe1,445
  24. Pierson1,327

Other metro and micro areas in Florida

Areas based in Florida, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

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.

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