DeLeon Springs Colored School · Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY 2.5Hardly anyone in De Leon Springs is out of work
For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 0.3 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 2.0 in Deltona. The two grades for De Leon Springs are B for jobs and income and A+ for walkability. Home is the office for 2% of workers; Florida has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
De Leon Springs and work: the main findings
De Leon Springs is a place people come home to
There are 210 jobs based in De Leon Springs, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday De Leon Springs has about 1,800 people in it, 34% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few De Leon Springs workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
De Leon Springs and DeLand trade workers both ways
DeLand is the top workplace for De Leon Springs residents (18%) and also where the most people who work in De Leon Springs come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Inside De Leon Springs’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, De Leon Springs is better than 62% of U.S. towns, #236 of 638 in Florida. Unemployment holds De Leon Springs’ grade up (hardly any, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($57,250, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, De Leon Springs could be anywhere from C+ to A.
De Leon Springs quiets down on a workday
On a workday 1,093 residents head out to work, 25 work right here, and 185 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in De Leon Springs on a workday afternoon, 34% fewer than live here.
0.19 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
About 28 minutes each way, about the FL average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of De Leon Springs workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,036 commuters (the 2% 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.
18% of working residents work in DeLand
Where De Leon Springs clocks in
18% of workers
4% 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.
The kinds of work in De Leon Springs
210 jobs are based in De Leon Springs.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in De Leon Springs, 2014 → 2024: 127 → 210. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs De Leon Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far De Leon Springs’ workers travel
About 26% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
De Leon Springs is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, De Leon Springs is more walkable than 97% of U.S. towns, #22 of 638 in Florida. Both inputs place De Leon Springs near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,052 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 100% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 47% 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). 0.0% of De Leon Springs households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of De Leon Springs’ commuters take a bus or train.
How De Leon Springs ranks: 1,611th of 4,797 U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | Geneva FL | 3,441 | $133K | 0.6% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 63 | Windermere FL | 3,344 | $178K | 1.3% | 2.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 93 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,609 | Fairfield VT | 2,031 | $87K | 5.1% | 2.4% | 5% | B |
| 1,610 | Big Coppitt Key FL | 3,109 | $105K | 4.7% | 3.8% | 5% | B |
| 1,611 | De Leon Springs FL | 2,687 | $57K | 8.0% | 0.0% | 2% | B |
| 1,612 | Colfax IA | 2,303 | $79K | 9.1% | 4.0% | 5% | B |
| 1,613 | St. Paul NE | 2,416 | $62K | 3.9% | 1.0% | 23% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,797 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 0% | 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 De Leon Springs, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 De Leon Springs: questions
What is the median household income in De Leon Springs?
$57,250 (±$19,094) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in De Leon Springs?
8.0%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from De Leon Springs?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in De Leon Springs work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are DeLand (18%, 8 mi), Daytona Beach (4%, 16 mi), Pierson (3%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is De Leon Springs walkable?
De Leon Springs is more walkable than 97% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 11.8 out of 20, and 20% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around De Leon Springs without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 100% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from De Leon Springs, from the people who make the trip.
More of De Leon Springs
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.