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Restaurants and cafes in the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL metro area

How the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for restaurants and cafes: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.

Groundwork market score · out of 100

Score 57 out of 100: Upper middle

Ranked #145 of 387 scored metro areas
#16 of 22 scored metro areas based in Florida

Listings
2,926
1,004 chain locations (34%)
Official establishments
1,223
+12.8% since 2019
Household spending a year
$1.1B
On food away from home · $3,648 a household
Spending per listing
$367K
In line with the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
99.4
9% below the U.S.
Population, 2025
746,933
+11.2% since 2020

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Survey estimates 2020–2024 · population estimates 2025 · official business counts 2023 · map listings September 2026 · Data credits · How we measure

What this means

Map listings as of September 2026 show 2,926 restaurants and cafes in the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach metro area. 1,004 of them (34%) are chain locations, against 34% across the U.S. That comes to 99.4 for every 10,000 households, 9% below the U.S. rate of 109.8.

At $3,648 per household (10% below the U.S. average), households in the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach metro area spend about $1.1B a year on food away from home. Spread across 2,926 restaurants and cafes, that is $367K per restaurant, in line with the U.S. figure of $371K.

Official counts show 1,223 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach metro area in 2023, up 12.8% from 2019. That is one for every 241 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Another 295 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 56 SBA-backed loans worth $41.8M have gone to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach metro area.

Population estimates show the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach metro area grew 11.2% from 2020 to 2025, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach metro area scores 57 (upper middle) on the Groundwork market score for restaurants and cafes, ranking #145 of 387 scored metro areas and #16 of 22 scored metro areas based in Florida.

How the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach metro area compares

The same measures for Florida and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all food away from home by the restaurants and cafes counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.

Restaurants and cafes in Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL metro area compared with Florida and the U.S.
MeasureDeltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach metro areaFloridaU.S.
Listings per 10k households99.4112.4109.8
Spending per listing$367K$342K$371K
Households per official establishment241223209
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023+12.8%+11.6%+6.0%
Population growth, 2020–2025+11.2%+8.7%+3.1%
Spending per household on food away from home$3,648$3,841$4,070
Median household income$71,277$74,568$80,734
Groundwork market score5746

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
1,223+12.8% over the period
Employees, 2023
25,359
Annual payroll, 2023
$572.8M
One-person businesses, 2023
295Businesses with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
2,9261,004 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
2,897The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here

SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022

Loans
56
Amount
$41.8M

SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach metro area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.

Population and households in the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach metro area

Population, 2025 estimate
746,933+11.2% since 2020
Households
294,463
Median age
47.1
Homes lived in by their owners
75%
Vehicles per household
1.7
Land area
1,587 sq. mi.
People per square mile
445
Median household income
$71,277+41.5% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$94,746
Median home value
$324,300
Jobs located here
214,274
Daytime population
625,423Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Restaurants and cafes across Florida

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The highest-scoring metro areas in Florida for restaurants and cafes, numbered among those based in Florida, with the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach metro area marked.

Top metro areas in Florida

Metro areas in Florida ranked for restaurants and cafes by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Wildwood-The Villages, FL8933747.9$782K+21.1%#2 of 387
2Punta Gorda, FL8470377.6$463K+15.5%#9 of 387
3Homosassa Springs, FL7848067.3$486K+11.1%#21 of 387
4Ocala, FL781,22674.4$446K+17.3%#25 of 387
5Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL782,39482.7$423K+19.8%#26 of 387
6Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL7764390.8$422K+7.7%#32 of 387
7Port St. Lucie, FL761,84790.0$422K+16.0%#36 of 387
8North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL743,949101.5$396K+13.2%#40 of 387
9Sebring, FL6935575.7$415K+9.7%#69 of 387
10Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL662,635102.3$383K+9.1%#88 of 387
16Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL572,92699.4$367K+11.2%#145 of 387

Other business types in the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach metro area

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Questions

How many restaurants and cafes are in the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL metro area?

There are 2,926 restaurants and cafes on map listings in the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach metro area as of September 2026. 1,004 of them (34%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 1,223 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023, up 12.8% from 2019. Official counts list 295 one-person businesses without payroll.

How much do households in the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL metro area spend on food away from home?

About $1.1B a year, or $3,648 per household. That is 10% below the U.S. average (an index of 90, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 2,926 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $367K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 294,463 households in the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach metro area and national spending patterns by income.

How does the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL metro area compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?

The Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach metro area has 99.4 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 9% below the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $367K, in line with the U.S. figure of $371K. At the national ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach metro area would have about 2,897, against 2,926 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 241 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. The official count rose 12.8% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.

How fast is the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL metro area growing?

Population estimates put the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach metro area at 746,933 people in 2025, up 11.2% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 294,463 households. The median household income in the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach metro area is $71,277 a year, 12% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 41.5% from the 2015–2019 survey, before inflation.

What is the Groundwork market score?

The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach metro area scores 57 for restaurants and cafes (upper middle), #145 of 387 scored metro areas.

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