Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0Unemployment in Ormond Beach (3.5%) is lower than in 61% of U.S. towns
About one in five stay in Ormond Beach for work; outside it, Daytona Beach is the main destination (24%, 8 miles). For jobs and income Ormond Beach is better than 56% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (B+). A typical one-way commute lasts 22 minutes; Florida averages 28, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Ormond Beach in brief
Ormond Beach trades workers with the towns around it
Ormond Beach has about as many jobs (16,942) as working residents (17,039), but they are mostly different people: 13,931 residents leave for work each day while 13,834 people come in. Only 18% of the jobs in Ormond Beach are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Ormond Beach and Daytona Beach trade workers both ways
Daytona Beach is the top workplace for Ormond Beach residents (24%) and also where the most people who work in Ormond Beach come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Ormond Beach are quick
The average trip to work takes 22 minutes, against 28 across Florida. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Florida worker. Time on the road ↓
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.
Inside Ormond Beach’s Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Ormond Beach’s grade up (ahead of 63% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($69,177, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Ormond Beach could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
The daily flow of workers through Ormond Beach
On a workday 13,931 residents head out to work, 3,108 work right here, and 13,834 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.99 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Ormond Beach goes to work
Where Ormond Beach clocks in
24% 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.
Time on the road from Ormond Beach: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ormond Beach workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 16,354 commuters (the 15% 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 16,942 jobs based in Ormond Beach
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ormond Beach, 2013 → 2023: 12,937 → 16,942. 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 Ormond Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Ormond Beach commutes less than 11 miles
About 30% 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 Ormond Beach, the car does most of the work
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.4% 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 19,237 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 60% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 16% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 4.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 81% 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). 4.1% of Ormond Beach households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Ormond Beach’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ormond Beach places 638th of 1,000 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 31,000 to 60,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 2 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
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| 50 | Parkland FL | 39,186 | $199K | 4.3% | 3.1% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 104 | Fruit Cove FL | 35,877 | $142K | 2.7% | 2.8% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 124 | Cooper City FL | 35,030 | $132K | 5.0% | 4.0% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 636 | Burien WA | 51,859 | $91K | 12.9% | 7.0% | 6% | B |
| 637 | Groton CT | 39,138 | $88K | 10.6% | 5.2% | 33% | B |
| 638 | Ormond Beach FL | 44,692 | $69K | 10.1% | 3.5% | 18% | B |
| 639 | Hackensack NJ | 46,380 | $84K | 12.1% | 7.7% | 12% | B |
| 640 | Rockledge FL | 31,343 | $84K | 9.0% | 5.0% | 13% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,000 | 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 Ormond Beach, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Ormond Beach and its neighbors: 27% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ormond Beach workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ormond Beach | – | B | B+ | 22 min | $69,177 |
| Ormond-by-the-Sea | under 2% | B− | B+ | 29 min | $79,120 |
| Daytona Beach | 24% | C | A | 21 min | $52,058 |
| Holly Hill | 3% | C− | A | 24 min | $55,412 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Daytona Beach. Darker towns draw more of Ormond 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 Ormond Beach: questions
What is the median household income in Ormond Beach?
$69,177 (±$4,129) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ormond Beach?
10.1%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ormond Beach?
22 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ormond Beach work?
18% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Daytona Beach (24%, 8 mi), DeLand (5%, 22 mi), Port Orange (3%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ormond Beach walkable?
Ormond Beach is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 10.6 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ormond Beach without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 16% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ormond Beach, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ormond 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.