Volusia County area

Population and density of Volusia County

The Census Bureau estimates that 606,573 people lived in Volusia County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #115 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #12 of 67 in Florida. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 553,543, the population has grown by 53,030 (+9.6%), compared with +8.9% for Florida as a whole.

With 1,101.3 square miles of land, that is 551 people per square mile (213 per km²), placing Volusia County #317 nationally for density and #16 in Florida. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Florida median is 209. Put another way, there are about 1.2 acres of land per resident.

U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. Estimates are revised each year and are not decennial census counts. Density divides the whole population by the whole county’s land area, so it describes an average, not how settlement is distributed within the county. Population sources and methods.

Cities and towns in Volusia County

17 incorporated places lie at least partly in Volusia County. Together they are home to 485,638 people (80.1%); the other 120,935 (19.9%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Deltona city, with 100,267 residents in the county. The county seat, DeLand city, has 46,346 residents. By land, Daytona Beach city is the largest at 67.9 mi². Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Daytona Beach city grew fastest since then (+23.6%).

Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 subcounty estimates, counting only the part of each place inside Volusia County. Land: 2026 Census Gazetteer, for the whole place even where it extends into other counties. How communities are listed.

Metropolitan area

Volusia County is a central county of the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 746,933 residents on 1,587.4 square miles of land; Volusia County accounts for 69.4% of the land and 81.2% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #210 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #84 by population. It belongs to the Orlando-Lakeland-Deltona, FL Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

30 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Volusia County; 27 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

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ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Lighter codes have less than half of their land in this county. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Volusia County

Volusia County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents. It has more land than 5 of them. The largest neighbor is Marion County (1,588.4 mi²) and the smallest is Seminole County (309.4 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Volusia County forms a block of 6,182.7 mi² of land, of which it holds 17.8%.

How big is Volusia County compared with U.S. states?

Volusia County has more land than 1 of the 50 states. It is about 1.1 times the land area of Rhode Island (1,033.9 mi²), while Delaware, the next larger state, has 1.8 times as much land (1,948.6 mi²). Florida’s county land could hold about 49 areas the size of Volusia County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 33.2 miles (53.4 km) on each side. Real county shapes are rarely square, so this is a scale reference rather than a width or driving distance.

State figures are the sums of each state’s county-equivalent land measurements in the same Census release, so states and counties are compared on the same basis. Published state totals can differ slightly because of rounding. Compare all states · Counties bigger than entire states.

What stands out about Volusia County?

Volusia County has more land than 2,645 of the other 3,221 county equivalents in the dataset.

A median is the middle county-equivalent measurement, not the average of the largest and smallest. All three bars use the same linear scale. Very small areas may appear as a thin sliver; the labels retain their values.

Does including water change its rank?

Using land plus water places Volusia County at #480 nationally by total area, 97 places closer to the top than its land rank. The water assigned to this geography moves it ahead of some county equivalents with more land.

Its water share is 23.1%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 22 percentage points higher. This describes the statistical geography’s land/water mix, not flood exposure or developable land.

Closest positions in the national land ranking

These entries sit immediately beside Volusia County in the national ranking. They can be in different states and are not necessarily geographic neighbors.

Calculated from the same Census release as the area table. Total-area order uses original ALAND + AWATER; water shares and chart labels use published square miles. Calculation details.