Deltona Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Deltona, Florida: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Deltona: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Deltona spend about 63 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 263 hours, about 11.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 32% more time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 7.6 minutes.

Deltona holds about 0.4% of Florida's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Deltona would save about 105 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,262 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Area	One-Way Commute	Daily Round-Trip	Yearly Time Spent	Estimated Yearly Cost	Local Road Traffic (VPD)
Deltona	31.6 min	63.1 min	263 hrs/yr	$8,155	3,463
Florida	24.0 min	47.9 min	200 hrs/yr	$6,189	3,068
United States	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,790	1,355

The estimated yearly cost applies a single national rule of thumb (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average hourly earnings), not a measurement of wages in this area - treat it as a rough estimate, not a paycheck figure. Local road traffic counts, vehicles per day on non-highway roads, come from proprietary Ticon and TrafficZoom data.

Deltona Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.6 minutes to get to work in Deltona. That's 41% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 14.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Deltona

Walking is unusually rare in Deltona: 5.8 times less than the Florida average (0.2% vs 1.4%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Deltona: 9.6 times less than the Florida average (0.1% vs 1.2%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Deltona: just 0.5%, 3.7 times below the Florida average of 1.9%.

Commute Mode Trends in Deltona, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Deltona get to work, as a share of all workers aged 16 and over, across 16 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) releases from 2009 to 2024. Each release is a 5-year estimate: the 2024 figures cover surveys taken from 2020 to 2024. Because neighboring releases share most of their survey years, the lines move gradually, and a sudden change such as the rise of remote work in 2020 spreads across several releases. Hover over or tap a line to highlight it, and use the legend to show or hide a mode. Driving starts hidden so the smaller modes stay readable.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Taxi	Bicycle	Walked	Public Transportation	Motorcycle
2009	93.2%	3.9%	1.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.6%	0.4%	0.5%
2010	93.1%	3.8%	1.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.6%	0.5%	0.5%
2011	92.9%	3.9%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.7%	0.6%	0.5%
2012	92.7%	4.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.8%	0.6%	0.5%
2013	93.9%	3.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.5%
2014	94.3%	3.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%	0.3%	0.6%
2015	94.6%	3.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.5%
2016	94.8%	3.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.5%
2017	94.7%	3.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.4%	0.4%
2018	94.3%	3.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%
2019	93.3%	4.4%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%
2020	91.2%	6.9%	1.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%
2021	88.9%	9.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	86.6%	11.9%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	85.6%	12.6%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	84.0%	14.3%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2016 at 94.8%. Overall it fell from 93.2% in 2009 to 84.0% in 2024, down 9.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Deltona: its share of workers rose from 3.9% in 2009 to 14.3% in 2024, up 10.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Deltona

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Deltona?

The bars show when commuters in Deltona leave home for work, as a share of everyone who commutes (people who work from home are not counted), from the 2024 ACS 5-year estimates. The thin violet marks show Florida for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		6.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		12.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		18.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.2%

Deltona Florida Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Deltona is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Florida. Early starts are more common than in Florida: 17.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush looks much like Florida's: 47.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.4%) leave at 9 AM or later, which usually points to shift work, flexible hours or part-time jobs.

When people leave matters as much as how far they go. Rush-hour traffic shrinks how much ground a 20-minute trip covers, so a trade area drawn as a simple circle often takes in neighborhoods that customers or staff would never drive from and misses others that are an easy trip. A drive-time zone, also called an isochrone, outlines every place within a set number of minutes of an address, which makes it the more honest way to size a store's catchment, a hiring area or the commute from a new home.

See it for yourself on the interactive map: click any spot in Deltona, pick a 5, 10, 15 or 30-minute drive and see the local demographics of the people who live within that exact drive time.

Is Deltona Waking Up Earlier? Typical Departure Time, 2009-2024

Each line follows the typical (median) departure time: the moment by which half of commuters have already left home. Higher on the chart means a later start. Setting Deltona next to Florida and the U.S. shows whether local mornings are drifting earlier or later than everyone else's. The figures span 16 ACS 5-year releases, so changes build up gradually rather than jumping from one year to the next.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Deltona	Florida	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:30 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:31 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:28 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:22 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:22 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:20 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:21 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:17 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:20 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:17 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Deltona were on the road by 7:17 AM, 12 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:29 AM). That goes against the trend across Florida, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Deltona now leave 21 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Deltona has moved 6 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Deltona in the whole series.

How does Deltona's commute time compare?

Metric	Deltona	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.6 min	24.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	14.3%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	0.2%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Deltona is 31.6 minutes, longer than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Florida. 0.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Deltona, FL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Deltona, FL is the largest of the 4 cities compared here, 79,571 residents against a local median of 23,279. Where Deltona, FL breaks from the cities next to it is one-way commute, sitting 34% above the local median of 23.5 min at 31.6 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 14.3% against a local median of 19.2%, 26% below it. The cities themselves sit within 2.5 min of each other on one-way commute, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Deltona, FL, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Deltona, FL has the 4th lowest one-way commute of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Deltona, FL	79,571	31.6 min #4/4	14.3% #4/4	7:17 AM #1/4
DeBary, FL	23,279	23.5 min	19.7%	7:45 AM
Midway, FL	671	23.8 min	19.2%	7:38 AM
Sanford, FL	52,563	21.3 min	18.7%	7:38 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Deltona, Florida.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Deltona, Florida?

Commuters here spend an estimated 263 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,155 at a typical national wage. That's 32% more than the typical Florida commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Deltona, Florida?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Deltona, Florida. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Deltona, Florida?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 1.2% in Florida, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.