With 706,150 residents, Deltona, FL ranks 83rd among the 387 metropolitan areas. People, homes, work, and the shape of the local business landscape, drawn from public data.
Its principal cities are Deltona, Daytona Beach and Ormond Beach.
Housing: a median home value of $324,300, 3 percent below the national figure. The median household in Deltona, FL earns $71,277 a year, 12 percent below the national figure (the US median is $80,734).
Three quick reads on the people of Deltona, FL. Residents skew older than the national median: 47.8 years, 8.9 years above the national median. Education: 28.9% with a bachelor's or higher, 7 points below the US share. The unemployment rate stands at 4.2%, 1 points below the US share. Ownership: 75.4% of households own their home, 10 points above the US share.
Against the state as a whole, the median income is 4 percent lower than the Florida figure, the median home value is 10 percent lower than the Florida figure, and the number of businesses per resident is 16 percent thinner than the Florida figure; see the Florida page for the full figures.
There are 17,065 employer businesses in Deltona, FL. That is 24.2 establishments per 1,000 people, 3 percent below the national figure. Of those, 1,252 are home-services contractors (plumbing and HVAC, electrical, roofing, concrete, specialty trades and landscaping), a 7.3% share of the business base, 2 points above the US share.
| Business type | Establishments | Per 100k residents | Share ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Landscaping services | 437 | 61.9 | 1.82× |
| Other specialty trade contractors (paving, asphalt, fencing) | 148 | 21 | 1.70× |
| Roofing contractors | 78 | 11 | 1.50× |
| Self-storage facilities | 54 | 7.6 | 1.43× |
| Concrete foundation and structure contractors | 66 | 9.3 | 1.38× |
| Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors | 299 | 42.3 | 1.32× |
| Electrical contractors | 224 | 31.7 | 1.32× |
| Beauty salons | 198 | 28 | 1.15× |
| Physicians' offices | 507 | 71.8 | 1.14× |
| Automobile dealers | 108 | 15.3 | 1.12× |
| Lessors of real estate (all) | 286 | 40.5 | 1.03× |
| Restaurants and other eating places | 1,223 | 173.2 | 0.97× |
| Personal care services (all) | 319 | 45.2 | 0.97× |
| Grocery and convenience retailers | 197 | 27.9 | 0.97× |
| General automotive repair | 165 | 23.4 | 0.95× |
| Legal services | 317 | 44.9 | 0.86× |
| Highway, street and bridge construction | 16 | 2.3 | 0.85× |
| Child day care services | 138 | 19.5 | 0.82× |
| Dentists | 222 | 31.4 | 0.80× |
| General freight trucking | 173 | 24.5 | 0.72× |
The last column divides the local share of establishments by the national share (1.00 = the same mix as the US).
More common here than nationally: landscaping services, specialty trade contractors, roofing contractors and self-storage operators. Landscaping services stand out with 437 locations, 1.8 times what the national mix would predict. The thin end of the table is general freight trucking, dentists, child day care services and road and paving contractors. General freight trucking show the largest gap, 173 locations, about 72% of what the national mix would give. Neither crowded nor thin: general automotive repair, automobile dealers and physicians' offices.
Per 100,000 residents: restaurants 173.2, followed by physicians' offices and landscaping services. The most numerous of the listed trades: restaurants with 1,223 establishments, then physicians' offices (507) and landscaping services (437). Taken as groups, the strongest relative to the US mix are the home-services trades (1.5 times the national share) and the weakest are legal services (about the same as).
Because landscaping services, specialty trade contractors and roofing contractors are over-represented, a new entrant in those categories competes for a fixed pool of searches against many established profiles. Reviews, photos, response time and a page that answers the exact query are what move the needle; simply outbidding is expensive. For general freight trucking, dentists and child day care services, the opportunity is coverage. Few competitors means the business that shows up for every nearby town and every variant of the search collects most of it. With 75.4% of homes owner-occupied, the people searching for a plumber or a roofer here are usually the ones paying the bill, which shortens the sales cycle. With a median age 8.9 years above the national median, the classic path of search, reviews and a phone call still carries most of the business. With household income 12 percent below the national figure, price transparency and financing matter more in the ad copy, and a phone call is usually the conversion to optimize for.
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Deltona, FL has 706,150 residents (US Census Bureau ACS 2024 5-year estimate), ranking 83rd of 387 metropolitan areas.
The median household income in Deltona, FL is $71,277 (ACS 2024 5-year), below the US median of $80,734.
The Census Bureau counts 17,065 employer establishments in Deltona, FL (County Business Patterns 2023), or 24.2 businesses per 1,000 residents.
The median home value in Deltona, FL is $324,300, and 75.4% of homes are owner-occupied (ACS 2024 5-year).
Measured against the US business mix (County Business Patterns 2023), landscaping services, specialty trade contractors and roofing contractors have more establishments per resident than the US average; general freight trucking, dentists and child day care services have fewer in Deltona, FL.
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Data: US Census Bureau ACS 2024 5-year estimates and County Business Patterns 2023. Updated 2026-09-29.