Daytona Beach vs Port Orange

A side-by-side comparison of Daytona Beach and Port Orange: population, income, housing, and more.

Daytona Beach and Port Orange are places in Florida. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Daytona Beach has the higher population (75,924 vs 63,818 in Port Orange). Port Orange has the higher median household income ($68,955 vs $50,130 in Daytona Beach). Port Orange has the higher median home value ($287,900 vs $244,300 in Daytona Beach).

Population, income & housing

	Daytona Beach	Port Orange
Population	75,924	63,818
Median age	39.8 yrs	46.2 yrs
Median household income	$50,130	$68,955
Median home value	$244,300	$287,900
Median gross rent	$1,239	$1,448
Housing units	40,362	31,376
Homeownership rate	46.4%	73.2%
Bachelor's degree or higher	25.7%	29.7%
Unemployment rate	4.6%	4.6%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Daytona Beach	Port Orange
Population	67,604 → 75,924 (+12.3%)	62,726 → 63,818 (+1.7%)
Median household income	$35,893 → $50,130 (+39.7%)	$51,883 → $68,955 (+32.9%)
Median home value	$153,000 → $244,300 (+59.7%)	$179,400 → $287,900 (+60.5%)
Median gross rent	$934 → $1,239 (+32.7%)	$1,161 → $1,448 (+24.7%)

Daytona Beach

Population

67,60475,924

Median household income

$35,893$50,130

Median home value

$153,000$244,300

Median gross rent

$934$1,239

Port Orange

Population

62,72663,818

Median household income

$51,883$68,955

Median home value

$179,400$287,900

Median gross rent

$1,161$1,448

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Daytona Beach	Port Orange
Under 5	4.7%	3.6%
5 to 17	11.0%	14.1%
18 to 24	14.6%	7.5%
25 to 34	14.3%	13.1%
35 to 44	10.3%	9.8%
45 to 54	10.2%	12.5%
55 to 64	13.5%	14.9%
65 to 74	12.5%	14.1%
75 and over	8.9%	10.5%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Daytona Beach	Port Orange
White (non-Hispanic)	51.0%	84.1%
Black or African American	31.1%	3.8%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.2%	0.3%
Asian	2.8%	2.6%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.7%	0.3%
Two or more races	4.2%	3.1%
Hispanic or Latino	10.0%	5.9%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Daytona Beach	Port Orange
No high school diploma	9.3%	6.3%
High school graduate	32.9%	28.3%
Some college or associate's	32.1%	35.8%
Bachelor's degree	17.0%	19.4%
Graduate or professional degree	8.7%	10.3%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Daytona Beach	Port Orange
Drove alone	74.0%	77.8%
Carpooled	9.8%	7.6%
Public transit	1.2%	0.3%
Walked	2.7%	0.9%
Bicycle	1.0%	0.4%
Worked from home	8.8%	11.0%
Other means	2.4%	1.9%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Daytona Beach	Port Orange
1-unit, detached	42.9%	62.5%
1-unit, attached	6.0%	4.0%
2 to 4 units	10.3%	4.0%
5 to 19 units	19.8%	8.7%
20 or more units	17.5%	5.2%
Mobile home & other	3.5%	15.6%

Poverty & households

	Daytona Beach	Port Orange
Poverty rate	21.2%	11.6%
Average household size	2.10	2.28
Mean commute (minutes)	21	25
Median year structure built	1980	1989