Ormond By The Sea market snapshot (as of June 25, 2026): the median sale price is about $290K ($284 per sq ft), with homes averaging 237 days on market and 2.0 months of supply, a balanced market (limited data). Based on 12 recent closings in live Daytona-area MLS data.
Ormond By The Sea is an unincorporated, census-designated community on the barrier island in Volusia County, just north of the City of Ormond Beach. The 2020 Census put its population at about 7,312 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2020). It is a narrow strip, mostly less than half a mile wide, running several miles along the island between the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Halifax River and Intracoastal Waterway to the west (U.S. Census Bureau and Wikipedia, 2026).
Two roads define it: State Road A1A, also called Ocean Shore Boulevard, along the ocean side, and John Anderson Drive along the river side (Wikipedia, 2026). Because the community is so narrow, nearly every home is within a few blocks of the beach. The housing is overwhelmingly low-rise: older beach cottages, mid-century ranches, and a scattering of low-rise condos, with no high-rise towers, reflecting a stretch that developed largely from the 1950s onward as a quiet, retirement-leaning area.
Because it is unincorporated and was platted before master-planned HOAs were common, most single-family homes here carry no homeowners association, a genuine differentiator that listings frequently advertise (Redfin and Homes.com no-HOA filters, 2026). Individual low-rise condo buildings within the area do carry their own associations, so confirm HOA status per property.
At the north end sits North Peninsula State Park, a fee-free state park with roughly three miles of undeveloped Atlantic beach plus dune and marsh habitat and a kayak launch on the Intracoastal (Florida State Parks, 2026). Combined with the off-beach parks and beach approaches along A1A, it gives the community an unusual amount of protected, low-density coastline for the price.
