Photo: FLboats · CC BY-SA 4.0DeLand has 1.8 jobs for every working resident: 24,778 people commute in to work
Employers in DeLand report 28,330 jobs for 16,073 working residents. Jobs and income earn DeLand B; getting around on foot earns it B+. About one in five work in DeLand itself; outside it, Orlando draws the most (7%, 38 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
DeLand and work: the main findings
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for DeLand
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, DeLand is better than 59% of U.S. towns, #267 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds DeLand’s grade up (ahead of 72% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (11.0%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, DeLand could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
A workday in DeLand: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 12,521 residents head out to work and 3,552 work right here.
About 59,000 people are in DeLand on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
The towns that send workers to DeLand
Where DeLand clocks in
7% of workers
6% 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.
What DeLand’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in DeLand, 2013 → 2023: 24,705 → 28,330. 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 DeLand’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long DeLand spends getting to work: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of DeLand workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 13,553 commuters (the 18% 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.
How far DeLand’s workers travel
About 22% 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.
Few in DeLand walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, DeLand is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns, #305 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below 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 16,585 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 45% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 12% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 3.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 76% 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). 9.4% of DeLand households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of DeLand’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, DeLand is 597th among 988 U.S. towns of 32,000 to 63,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 2 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
| 3 | Upper Arlington OH | 35,893 | $155K | 3.3% | 2.0% | 7% | A+ |
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| 48 | Parkland FL | 39,186 | $199K | 4.3% | 3.1% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 100 | Fruit Cove FL | 35,877 | $142K | 2.7% | 2.8% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 118 | Cooper City FL | 35,030 | $132K | 5.0% | 4.0% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 595 | East Providence RI | 48,249 | $76K | 10.1% | 5.5% | 16% | B |
| 596 | Harker Heights TX | 35,195 | $81K | 10.2% | 3.9% | 8% | B |
| 597 | DeLand FL | 46,346 | $72K | 11.0% | 3.5% | 22% | B |
| 598 | Lynnwood WA | 42,132 | $78K | 14.2% | 4.3% | 9% | B |
| 599 | Revere MA | 60,141 | $87K | 11.5% | 7.0% | 7% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 988 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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 DeLand, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Around DeLand: the bordering towns
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | DeLand workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeLand | – | B | B+ | 28 min | $71,863 |
| West DeLand | under 2% | B+ | C− | 29 min | $76,386 |
| DeLand Southwest | under 2% | C− | B− | 31 min | $42,886 |
| Lake Helen | under 2% | A− | C+ | 30 min | $116,250 |
| Deltona | under 2% | B | B− | 34 min | $76,924 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of DeLand’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 DeLand: questions
What is the median household income in DeLand?
$71,863 (±$5,140) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in DeLand?
11.0%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from DeLand?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in DeLand work?
22% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Orlando (7%, 38 mi), Daytona Beach (6%, 16 mi), Sanford (3%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is DeLand walkable?
DeLand is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 9.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around DeLand without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. 12% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from DeLand, from the people who make the trip.
More of DeLand
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.