Mary McLeod Bethune Home · Photo: Lvklock · CC BY-SA 4.0Daytona Beach has 1.8 jobs for every working resident: 40,853 people commute in to work
Household incomes here are lower than in 85% of U.S. towns. 48,944 jobs are based in Daytona Beach for 27,903 working residents. Daytona Beach grades C for jobs and income and A for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Daytona Beach and work: the main findings
Daytona Beach is where the jobs are
Daytona Beach has 48,944 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Daytona Beach are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 28 across Florida. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Florida worker. Time on the road ↓
Fewer than half of Daytona Beach workers earn over $40,000 a year
44% of Daytona Beach’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 18% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Why Daytona Beach gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Daytona Beach is better than 29% of U.S. towns, #510 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Daytona Beach’s grade up (ahead of 71% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (20.4%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Daytona Beach could be anywhere from C− to C+.
Who works in Daytona Beach, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 19,812 residents head out to work and 8,091 work right here.
About 110,000 people are in Daytona Beach on a workday afternoon, 24% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
About 21 minutes each way, quicker than most of Florida
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Daytona Beach workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 28,954 commuters (the 11% who work from home are left out). Across Florida: 83% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
The kinds of work in Daytona Beach
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Daytona Beach, 2013 → 2023: 42,799 → 48,944. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Daytona Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Daytona Beach’s workers come from
Where Daytona Beach clocks in
7% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where in the region Daytona Beach works
About 31% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Daytona Beach, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Daytona Beach is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns, #110 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 4.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, above the 3.6% across Florida.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 32,511 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 85% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 44% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 8.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 92% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 11.3% of Daytona Beach households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Daytona Beach’s commuters take a bus or train.
Daytona Beach is 440th of 507 U.S. towns of 62,000 to 119,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lakeville MN | 79,270 | $139K | 2.9% | 2.0% | 11% | A+ |
| 2 | Fulshear TX | 64,630 | $187K | 1.6% | 2.8% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Plymouth MN | 78,942 | $137K | 4.3% | 2.3% | 12% | A+ |
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| 51 | Weston FL | 69,588 | $140K | 6.1% | 3.9% | 13% | A |
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| 73 | Horizon West FL | 67,416 | $127K | 7.3% | 2.9% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 134 | Palm Beach Gardens FL | 63,883 | $107K | 7.2% | 3.9% | 17% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 438 | Dothan AL | 72,060 | $56K | 19.3% | 4.3% | 58% | C |
| 439 | Kalamazoo MI | 72,683 | $52K | 24.9% | 6.9% | 33% | C |
| 440 | Daytona Beach FL | 88,471 | $52K | 20.4% | 4.7% | 29% | C |
| 441 | Fall River MA | 95,298 | $57K | 19.6% | 6.5% | 30% | C |
| 442 | Baytown TX | 86,561 | $60K | 18.2% | 10.2% | 18% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 507 | Albany GA | 66,907 | $47K | 27.5% | 11.2% | 51% | D |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Daytona Beach, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Daytona Beach and its neighbors: 17% work next door
The biggest share goes to Ormond Beach (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Daytona Beach workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daytona Beach | – | C | A | 21 min | $52,058 |
| Daytona Beach Shores | under 2% | B | A | 34 min | $74,392 |
| Ormond Beach | 7% | B | B+ | 22 min | $69,177 |
| Holly Hill | 2% | C− | A | 24 min | $55,412 |
| South Daytona | 3% | C | A | 21 min | $56,579 |
| Port Orange | 5% | B− | B+ | 26 min | $74,426 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Daytona Beach’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Daytona Beach: questions
What is the median household income in Daytona Beach?
$52,058 (±$2,226) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Daytona Beach?
20.4%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Daytona Beach?
21 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Daytona Beach work?
29% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ormond Beach (7%, 8 mi), DeLand (5%, 16 mi), Port Orange (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Daytona Beach walkable?
Daytona Beach is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 13.0 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Daytona Beach without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. 44% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Daytona Beach, from the people who make the trip.
More of Daytona Beach
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.