Wilbur By The Sea market snapshot (as of June 25, 2026): the median sale price is about $520K ($310 per sq ft), with homes averaging 191 days on market and 1.6 months of supply, a buyer-leaning market (limited data). Values are down 13% over the past year and up 223% since 2012, based on 22 recent closings in live Daytona-area MLS data.
Wilbur By The Sea is an unincorporated community in Volusia County on the barrier island between Daytona Beach Shores to the north and Ponce Inlet to the south, about seven miles south of Daytona Beach. It carries a Port Orange mailing address and ZIP, but it is not inside the City of Port Orange; governance is at the county level (Wikipedia; USGS GNIS, 2026).
The neighborhood was platted in the 1910s by the Wilbur Land Company, named for Jacob W. Wilbur, who assembled acreage between the Atlantic and the Halifax River and built shell roads, cottages, a water plant, and a steamboat wharf; a 1913 pavilion and the Toronita Hotel anchored the early community. The area runs roughly a mile along the island, one of the narrowest points on Florida's east coast, with only a few hundred feet separating ocean and river in places (wilburboathouse.com; Homes.com, 2026).
It is one of only two unincorporated coastal areas in Volusia County with no condos or hotels, so the housing stock is single-family: a mix of mid-century beach bungalows and ranch homes alongside newer oceanfront and deep-water estates. On the river side, Tom Wilbur Bay offers docks and deep-water, boatable lots, and the county-run Wilbur Boathouse at Toronita Avenue Park is a historic local landmark (Wikipedia; Volusia County Parks, 2026).
There is no mandatory homeowners association across the neighborhood; the community is served by the volunteer Wilbur Improvement Association. Short-term rentals under thirty days are not permitted in residentially zoned unincorporated Volusia County under a county ordinance upheld in court, which keeps the street residential rather than transient. Confirm zoning and any per-parcel rules for a specific home.
