Sell Your Commercial Property In Volusia County, FL

Who rents in Volusia County

Renters head 63,602 of the 241,881 occupied households in Volusia County, a 26.3% share in the 2020-2024 ACS. Owners hold the rest, at 178,279 households, so Volusia County leans more toward ownership than Florida overall, where renters make up 32.4% of households.

Daytona Beach is the renter center of Volusia County, with 18,193 renter households and a 52.5% renter share. Port Orange and Deltona follow with 6,892 and 6,681 renter households, though both lean owner-occupied at roughly one in five households. DeLand holds 5,594 renter households at a 35.6% share, the second-highest in the county.

Rents, growth and affordability

Volusia County's median gross rent climbed 40.2%, from $1,046 to $1,467, between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys. Population grew more slowly over the same span, up 8.0% to 579,622 residents, an increase of 43,135 people. Units in 5+ unit buildings in Volusia County grew 15.3%, adding 6,920 units.

Rental vacancy in Volusia County stands at 7.4%, slightly below Florida's 7.6% rate in the same survey. HUD's FY2027 two-bedroom Fair Market Rent for the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach area is $1,673, effective October 1, 2026, running $206 above Volusia County's median gross rent.

On price, Volusia County's $1,467 median gross rent sits below the $1,669 Florida median. Renter households in Volusia County slipped 1.0% over the five-year comparison even as population and apartment stock both grew, a sign that new renter demand in Volusia County is concentrating in specific cities rather than spreading evenly.

City-by-city comparison

Daytona Beach dominates the Volusia County apartment stock, with 38.6% of its housing units in 5+ unit buildings and 31.3% of the county's total 5+ unit stock. New Smyrna Beach and DeLand follow at 31.8% and 19.1% respectively, well above Deltona's 1.5%.

Vacancy varies sharply across Volusia County. Ormond Beach posts 3.6% while New Smyrna Beach reaches 20.0%, a gap tied to New Smyrna Beach's smaller renter base of about 3,612 households. Rent ranges from $1,328 in Daytona Beach to $1,712 in New Smyrna Beach.

Daytona Beach pairs its lower rent with the highest renter share and apartment density in Volusia County, a combination that favors buyers underwriting workforce housing. New Smyrna Beach and Port Orange carry higher rents but smaller, lower-density renter pools.

Property taxes and assessment in Volusia County

Volusia County assesses real property, including apartment buildings, at just value as of January 1 each year under Florida's constitutional assessment framework. Investment and commercial property in Volusia County do not qualify for the homestead exemption that caps increases on owner-occupied homes.

The Volusia County Property Appraiser sets each parcel's assessed value independently, and the county, cities and school districts in Volusia County then apply their own millage rates on top of that value. Pull the full tax bill for any Volusia County parcel before you price a sale, since the combined rate varies by city.

What this means if you sell in Volusia County

When you sell commercial property in Volusia County, FL, you sell into a market where renters hold 26.3% of households and 18.4% of units sit in 5+ unit buildings. The 7.4% rental vacancy rate is the counterweight, and it runs below the Florida average. Expect buyers to weigh a Daytona Beach building's occupancy differently than one in lower-vacancy Ormond Beach.

Rent control is not a factor in Volusia County. Florida law preempts counties and cities from adopting rent control ordinances except through a narrow, voter-approved housing-emergency process under Fla. Stat. 125.0103. Security deposits in Volusia County carry no statutory cap, but landlords must return them or send a claim notice within 30 days under Fla. Stat. 83.49.

As a multifamily buyer active in Volusia County, we review 5+ unit buildings from Daytona Beach to Port Orange as they stand today. Send a current rent roll, a T-12 and the latest Volusia County tax statement, and we will price the building on those numbers.