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Place dossier plate
SheetFL-DELTONA-FL · Deltona, FL 95,682 pop · income 54th pct · 130 tracts
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 Deltona
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Deltona on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Reading · lowest
45,599
Reading · lowest
45,599 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #1
Deltona · this city
72,967
Deltona · this city
72,967 median HH income
61.7% of the leader · rank #2
West Union · near
72,969
West Union · near
72,969 median HH income
61.7% of the leader · rank #3
Butler · near
72,969
Butler · near
72,969 median HH income
61.7% of the leader · rank #4
Marion · near
72,969
Marion · near
72,969 median HH income
61.7% of the leader · rank #5
Ellenboro · near
72,969
Ellenboro · near
72,969 median HH income
61.7% of the leader · rank #6
Tracy · highest
118,253
Tracy · highest
118,253 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 Deltona 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: 95,682.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Deltona places in the 54th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
54th
percentile, household income
56th
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: Deltona, FL
Florida's Deltona is a small city, with 95,682 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Deltona households earn a median of $72,967 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 9.1%. Deltona's housing stock carries a median value of $254,100, and the median resident age is 38.3 years. Educational attainment runs 19.6% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 59.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 158 residential building permits were authorized in Deltona (Construction Slowdown), down 64% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data.
Florida carries a cost-of-living premium: the state registers 103.4 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Above Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,526 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Florida's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). Workers in Deltona report an average commute of 30.1 minutes, with 74.9% driving alone and 12.5% working from home. Natural-hazard exposure scores 75.7 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Deltona'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 housing and income to work and mobility to population change to comparison shortlist to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Deltona, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, matched public-school count, local building permits, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Deltona?
The NCES join finds 13 public schools within the city match. 19.6% 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.
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.
How far does income reach against housing in Deltona?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
Which cities make useful reference points for Deltona?
Within Florida, the closest population matches are Sunrise (96,633 residents, $72,107 income); Palm Coast (94,362 residents, $71,840 income); Plantation (94,002 residents, $87,077 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Edmond, OK (95,618 residents); Lawrence, KS (95,459 residents); Tracy, CA (95,358 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.
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.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
PlainCities matches 130 Census tracts to this city.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Deltona?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 30.1 minutes.
Public transit
0.2%
Work from home
12.5%
Drive alone
74.9%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 45,383 workers age 16+.
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +6,228 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +6.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 158 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+6.6%
2025 estimate
100,267
2020 estimate
94,039
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 9.1% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
F
City profile score · Deltona, FL
39/100
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.
Household income C-
$72,967
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate D
9.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
19.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; 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).
Deltona profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 52/100 (C-) · $72,967
Poverty rate: 43/100 (D) · 9.1%
Bachelor's+ share: 33/100 (F) · 19.6%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
How does Deltona compare to other US cities?
Deltona 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 value56% 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 Deltona 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 Deltona near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Deltona ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Deltona only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#391 of 903
57th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#555 of 894
38th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#394 of 930
57th percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#618 of 930
33rd 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 Deltona's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$254,10044th percentilemore affordable than 44% 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
Deltona's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,905 of 15,516
More affordable than 43% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#212 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.5×, Deltona sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,905 of 15,516 and #212 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
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
$72,967Deltona, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Deltona, 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 Deltona, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)19.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)59.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
95,682
Median Income
$72,967
Median Home Value
$254,100
Median Age
38.3
Poverty Rate
9.1%
Labor force participation
59.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
19.6%
Schools
Total Schools
13
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Deltona's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
94,039 residents
2021
95,468 residents
2022
97,392 residents
2023
98,906 residents
2024
100,013 residents
2025
100,267 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
158
housing units authorized
Single-Family
152
detached homes
Multifamily
6
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
441
427
14
$114.2M
2020
446
442
4
$125.2M
2021
479
427
52
$135.6M
2022
497
493
4
$156.7M
2023
441
410
31
$168.1M
2024
158
152
6
$74.4M
Permit volume decreased 64% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
30.1 minutes
Drive Alone
74.9%
Carpool
10.8%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
0.2%
Work from Home
12.5%
Other
1.4%
Based on 45,383 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 Deltona. 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 Deltona 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 Deltona sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Deltona 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, 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.