Editing Deltona, Florida (section)

== Economy ==
{{As of|2013}}, 60.0% of the population aged 16 years and over was in the labor force, with 52.7% employed and 7.2% unemployed. 32.4% of the population worked in sales and office occupations; 24.8% worked in management, business, science and arts occupations; 20.7% in service occupations; 11.5% in production, transportation, and material moving occupations; and 10.6% in natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations.<ref name="GR2" /> The industries for which the city's inhabitants worked were 20.0% educational, health, and social services; 15.4% retail trade; 10.7% professional, scientific, management, administrative and waste management services; 9.5% arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation and food services; 7.7% manufacturing; 7.6% finance, insurance, real estate, and rental and leasing; 7.2% construction; 6.3% public administration; 5.1% transportation, warehousing and utilities; 4.5% other services (except public administration); 3.5% information; 2.2% wholesale trade; and 0.4% agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, and mining.<ref name="GR2" /> 82.7% of workers worked in the private sector, 12.7% in government, and 4.6% self-employed in unincorporated businesses. 85.9% of the population commute to work by driving alone in own car, with 8.1% consisting of carpoolers, 3.3% worked from home, 0.5% walked to work, 0.4% used public transportation (excluding taxicab), and 1.7% used other means to travel to work. The average commute time for workers is 32 minutes.<ref name="GR2" />

[[Fitch Ratings|Fitch]], [[Moody's Investors Service|Moody's]], and [[Standard & Poor's]] rated Deltona bonds as "[[Bond credit rating|AA-]]" from 2013 to 2014.<ref name="fitch2014">[http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140904006198/en/Fitch-Upgrades-Deltona-FLs-Transportation-Capital-Improvement#.VPjr_47s18E Fitch Upgrades Deltona, FL's Transportation Capital Improvement Rev Bonds to 'AA-'; Outlook Stable]. [[Business Wire]]. 2014-09-04. Retrieved 2015-03-05.</ref><ref>[http://www.bondsonline.com/print/Todays_Market/Credit_Rating_News_.php?DA=view&RID=35818 Deltona, FL Issuer Credit Rating Raised To 'AA' Based On Local GO Criteria] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402163636/http://www.bondsonline.com/print/Todays_Market/Credit_Rating_News_.php?DA=view&RID=35818 |date=2015-04-02 }}. bondsonline.com. 2014-03-27. Retrieved 2015-03-05.</ref><ref>[https://www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-has-corrected-the-rating-of-City-of-Deltonas-FL--PR_263780 Moody's has corrected the rating of City of Deltona's (FL) Transportation Capital Improvement Bonds, Series 2006 to Aa3 from A1]. [[Moody's Investors Service]]. 2013-01-14. Retrieved 2015-03-05.</ref> Fitch attributed Deltona's small commercial sector to the city being a "largely residential and mostly built-out community", but did acknowledge the city's improving unemployment rate, dropping from a peak of 12% in 2010 to 6.4% in June 2014.<ref name="fitch2014" /> {{As of|2014}}, the largest employers in the city include [[Daytona State College]], followed by [[Publix|Publix Supermarkets]], and [[Walmart]].<ref name="fitch2014" /><ref name="cafr">[http://www.ci.deltona.fl.us/Pages/DeltonaFL_Depts/DeltonaFL_Finance/CAFR/CAFR2014.pdf City of Deltona, Florida - Comprehensive Annual Financial Report]. p. 131. City of Deltona Finance Department. 2014-09-30. Retrieved 2015-03-18.</ref>