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SheetFL-DELAND-FL · DeLand, FL 39,832 pop · income 54th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around DeLand
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest DeLand on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Hutchinson · lowest
58,801
Hutchinson · lowest
58,801 median HH income
47.6% of the leader · rank #1
Henniker · near
73,339
Henniker · near
73,339 median HH income
59.4% of the leader · rank #2
Fayetteville · near
73,342
Fayetteville · near
73,342 median HH income
59.4% of the leader · rank #3
North Conway · near
73,344
North Conway · near
73,344 median HH income
59.4% of the leader · rank #4
Clayton · near
73,348
Clayton · near
73,348 median HH income
59.4% of the leader · rank #5
DeLand · this city
73,352
DeLand · this city
73,352 median HH income
59.4% of the leader · rank #6
Lakewood Ranch · highest
123,471
Lakewood Ranch · highest
123,471 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for DeLand on ACS population and median household income
. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 39,832.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, DeLand places in the 54th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
54th
percentile, household income
66th
percentile, home value
73rd
percentile, median rent
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: DeLand, FL
39,832 people live in DeLand, Florida - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. DeLand households earn a median of $73,352 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.0%. Home values in DeLand run a median of $303,500, and the median resident age is 38.8 years. Educational attainment runs 33.4% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 49.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 447 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Slowing), down 6% from five years earlier. NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 70.3°F with 55.5 inches of precipitation per year.
Florida carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Florida scores 103.4 (Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,526 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Florida's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). Commute times here average 21.2 minutes, with 69.2% driving alone and 17.2% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 75.7 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of DeLand's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from schools and households to work and mobility to population change to climate and hazard context to housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For DeLand, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for DeLand?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 11 public schools within the city match. 33.4% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
What does the journey to work look like in DeLand?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 69.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 21.2 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +8,135 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +21.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 447 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Which cities make useful reference points for DeLand?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching.
Within Florida, the closest population matches are Oviedo (39,990 residents, $114,092 income); Plant City (40,009 residents, $64,536 income); The Acreage (40,188 residents, $105,405 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Hutchinson, KS (39,837 residents); Fort Lee, NJ (39,818 residents); Waipahu, HI (39,871 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in DeLand?
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 70.3°F, with 55.5 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Florida is 75.7 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
75.7
Annual precipitation
55.5 in
Mean temperature
70.3°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
How far does income reach against housing in DeLand?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
4.1×
Home value
$303,500
Household income
$73,352
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above median income · poverty 5.0% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
C-
City profile score · DeLand, FL
51/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Poverty rate B-
5.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C+
33.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C-
$73,352
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Cost of living F
103.4 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
DeLand profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 65/100 (B-) · 5.0%
Bachelor's+ share: 64/100 (C+) · 33.4%
Household income: 53/100 (C-) · $73,352
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
How does DeLand compare to other US cities?
DeLand measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income54% higher than other cities
Home value66% pricier than other cities
Median rent73% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares DeLand against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Florida only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Florida-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places DeLand near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, DeLand ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares DeLand only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#387 of 903
57th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#426 of 894
52nd percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#621 of 930
32nd percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#347 of 930
62nd percentile in Florida
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Florida only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
54th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How DeLand's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$303,50034th percentilemore affordable than 34% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
DeLand's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,076 of 15,516
More affordable than 29% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,093 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.1×, DeLand sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,076 of 15,516 and #2,093 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$73,352DeLand, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context DeLand, FL median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for DeLand, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)33.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)49.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
39,832
Median Income
$73,352
Median Home Value
$303,500
Median Age
38.8
Poverty Rate
5.0%
Labor force participation
49.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
33.4%
Climate
Avg Temperature
70.3°F
Annual Precipitation
55.5"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
11
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
DeLand's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
38,211 residents
2021
39,541 residents
2022
41,386 residents
2023
43,155 residents
2024
45,461 residents
2025
46,346 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
447
housing units authorized
Single-Family
447
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
11.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
474
472
2
$138.1M
2020
521
521
0
$154.5M
2021
763
763
0
$216.4M
2022
798
798
0
$287.5M
2023
1,090
977
113
$396.1M
2024
447
447
0
$173.8M
Permit volume decreased 6% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
21.2 minutes
Drive Alone
69.2%
Carpool
9.4%
Public Transit
0.5%
Walk
1.3%
Work from Home
17.2%
Other
2.4%
Based on 16,071 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Florida statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $225
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Florida at $225 (electricity about $145 , water and sewer about $55 ).
These are Florida statewide averages, not a meter reading for DeLand. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Florida's BEA cost-of-living index is 103.4 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around DeLand is $1,526/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Florida statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 75.7 / 100 (High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Florida statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county DeLand sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How DeLand compares to similar-size Florida cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.