Name

Volusia County Government

Legal name

County of Volusia

Website

https://volusia.org

Company type

Public

Founded year

1854

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

County Government Services

NAICS

Hazardous Waste Collection (562112), Fire Protection (92216), Water, Sewage and Other Systems (2213)

SIC

Sanitary Services (4950), Refuse Systems (4953), Hazardous Waste Management (4955)

akta.pro primary industry

Dispatch, Communications & Medical Control Centers (PSAP/ECC) (HLAFANAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Emergency Dispatch Center Services (PSAP/911 Support, Private Dispatch) (BPAKAFAJ), Hazardous Waste Handling, Transport & Disposal (RCRA/TSDF) (IMAIAGAC)

Keywords

• Emergency medical services
• Emergency management services
• Solid waste recycling
• Public transportation services
• Environmental management services

Headquarters

HQ city

Florida

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Volusia County Government provides public administration and county-level governmental services to residents of and visitors to Volusia County, Florida. Core services include Emergency Medical Services (pre-hospital care and medical transport across 1,207 square miles, handling 80,000 annual calls and 62,000 transports), Emergency Management coordination from a 43,000-square-foot Emergency Operations Center, Solid Waste and Recycling operations, public transportation via Votran, environmental protection and conservation programs (including Volusia Forever, Monofilament Recycling, Keep Volusia Beautiful), public library services across 14 branches, parks and recreation, beach and coastal management, and airport/convention venue operations (Daytona Beach International Airport and Ocean Center).

Product overview

Volusia County Government offers a comprehensive suite of public services organized across multiple divisions including Emergency Services, Public Works, Environmental Management, and Community Services. The core service offerings include Emergency Medical Services (serving 1,207 square miles with 80,000 annual calls), Emergency Management coordination, Solid Waste and Recycling operations, and Environmental Management programs including the Monofilament Recycling Program, Keep Volusia Beautiful anti-littering initiative, and Sustainability and Resilience programs. Educational offerings include the Lyonia Environmental Center and Explore Volusia outdoor adventure program. The county also provides the AlertVolusia emergency notification system (powered by Everbridge) and uses external platforms including OpenGov for procurement, Eventbrite for event registrations, and GovernmentJobs for career applications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Votran: Public transportation system serving Volusia County
• Volusia County EMS
• Explore Volusia
• Volusia Forever
• Keep Volusia Beautiful
• Volunteer Volusia
• Ocean Center

Products and services

• Volusia County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Provides high-quality, cost-efficient pre-hospital care and medical transportation across all 1,207 square miles of Volusia County. The service receives 80,000 calls for service each year and transports 62,000 patients to area hospitals, using advanced technologies and evidence-based practice pre-hospital medicine.
• Emergency Management Services Provides countywide leadership in planning, preparedness, and coordination of response, recovery, and mitigation from natural, man-made, and technological disasters within Volusia County, operating from a 43,000-square-foot Emergency Operations Center that houses county emergency operations and sheriff's communications including countywide 9-1-1 dispatch.
• Solid Waste and Recycling Services Manages garbage collection, recycling programs, household hazardous waste disposal, and illegal dumping enforcement across Volusia County, including the Tomoka Landfill and household hazardous waste facility in Port Orange and the West Volusia Transfer Station in DeLand.
• Votran Public Transportation Public transportation system serving Volusia County residents and visitors across the county.
• Volusia County Public Library System Public library system composed of 14 branches across Volusia County, providing residents with books, digital resources, and community programming.
• Daytona Beach International Airport (DBIA) County-operated international airport providing commercial aviation services, supporting tourism and economic development in Volusia County.
• Ocean Center County-operated convention and events center in Daytona Beach hosting conventions, trade shows, and community events.
• Lyonia Environmental Center LEED-certified environmental education facility in Deltona offering day camps, programs, and field trips about Florida's unique ecosystems and conservation, for participants ages 6-15.
• Marine Science Center Marine science education and conservation facility in Ponce Inlet providing programs on marine ecosystems, sea turtle rehabilitation, and coastal conservation.
• Volusia Forever Land Conservation Program Land conservation program financed through voter-approved millage, protecting approximately 39,000 acres of environmentally sensitive lands in Volusia County since its establishment in 2000, with voter renewal in 2020 for an additional 20 years.
• Beach Safety Services Beach safety and coastal management services providing lifeguard operations and beach safety support across Volusia County's 47 miles of beaches.
• Fire Rescue Services County fire rescue services provided through the Emergency Services department for residents and visitors across Volusia County.

Quantifiable outcome

• EMS handles 80,000 calls for service and transports 62,000 patients annually
• +3 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Keep America Beautiful Inc.coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1998National nonprofit public education organization dedicated to improving waste handling practices. Volusia County became an official affiliate in 1998 to implement anti-littering initiatives and community beautification programs.
• Keep Florida BeautifulcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1998State affiliate of Keep America Beautiful. Volusia County is an official affiliate since 1998 for environmental education and behavioral change programs to reduce litter and increase recycling.
• Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for derelict vessel removal from navigable waterways. FWC provides grants and authorization for vessel removal, while Volusia County Environmental Management Division conducts removal operations in the St. Johns River and tributaries. County has received grants for two years to remove vessels from the St. Johns River.
• US Coast GuardminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerParticipates in underwater cleanup events along the north jetty in Ponce Inlet alongside Volusia County staff, UCF students, Hubbs Sea World Research Institute volunteers, and Alshouse & Associates employees during marine debris removal operations.
• University of Central Florida (UCF) StudentsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerStudent volunteers participate in underwater cleanup events along the north jetty in Ponce Inlet for marine debris removal operations.
• Hubbs Sea World Research Institute VolunteersminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerVolunteer participation in underwater cleanup events along the north jetty in Ponce Inlet for marine debris and monofilament line removal.
• Florida Department of Environmental ProtectioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerState agency providing oversight and coordination for environmental protection programs including derelict vessel removal and pollution control.
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Marine Debris ProgramminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNOAA program providing resources and information for marine debris prevention and removal initiatives in Volusia County waterways.
• Florida Department of HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEnforces the Waterwise Landscape Irrigation Ordinance. Collaborates with Volusia County Environmental Management Division, Volusia County Chapter of Florida Irrigation Society, Volusia Homebuilders Association, and Water Authority of Volusia for ordinance development.
• Ocean ConservancycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational Coastal Cleanup program organized by Ocean Conservancy. Volusia County participates annually in September to keep beaches, waterways and ocean trash-free. Participants use Clean Swell app to record data.
• Florida Water Management DistrictscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with water management districts for Volusia Forever land acquisition program. Forms partnerships with federal, state, water management district, and local agencies committed to protecting natural resources.
• Water Authority of VolusiaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative partner in Waterwise Landscape Irrigation Ordinance development and water conservation initiatives.
• Florida Irrigation Society - Volusia ChapterminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIndustry partner providing input for Waterwise Landscape Irrigation Ordinance revisions and water conservation practices.
• Volusia Homebuilders AssociationminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIndustry partner for Waterwise Landscape Irrigation Ordinance development and Florida Friendly Landscaping Program implementation.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Orange County Government (Florida): Adjacent central-Florida county government providing a comparable portfolio of EMS, fire rescue, solid waste, water utilities, environmental protection, libraries, and convention facilities. Frequently appears alongside Volusia in regional contacts and overlapping service-coordination agreements (e.g., the Pollution Control coordinator contact in source is from Orange County EPD).
• Brevard County Government: Neighboring Space Coast county government with a closely comparable coastal service profile: 72+ miles of beaches, EMS, emergency management, solid waste, environmental management, and library system. Shares many regional hazards (hurricanes, coastal flooding) and intergovernmental coordination touchpoints with Volusia.
• Seminole County Government: Central-Florida county government operating a similar set of services including EMS, fire rescue, emergency management, solid waste, water and sewer utilities, libraries, and parks. Comparable in scale and operating model, serving a population of similar size adjacent to Volusia.
• Flagler County Government: Smaller neighboring county just north of Volusia with overlapping beachfront, EMS, fire, emergency management, library, and solid-waste services. Useful as a like-for-like peer for benchmarking service-cost and EMS-transport economics in a tourism-adjacent Florida county.
• Lake County Government (Florida): Adjacent central-Florida county providing EMS, fire, emergency management, solid waste, libraries, and water utilities across a comparable geographic footprint (roughly 1,000 sq mi). Direct functional peer for benchmarking consolidated county service delivery.
• Hillsborough County Government: Large Florida county government (Tampa area) operating a comparable consolidated portfolio of EMS, fire rescue, emergency management, solid waste, water utilities, libraries, and conservation lands. Closest scale peer in terms of consolidated service breadth and budget size.
• Lee County Government: Southwest-Florida county government with a directly comparable tourism-and-coastal service profile (Fort Myers/Sanibel beaches, hurricane exposure, large EMS system, solid waste, environmental services). One of the most relevant functional peers for tourism-dependent coastal county operations.
• Alachua County Government: North-central Florida county operating a similar countywide services portfolio (EMS, environmental management, libraries, solid waste, water utilities). Appears as a regional Pollution Control coordination peer in Volusia's own contact data.

Broad incumbents

• Miami-Dade County Government: Largest Florida county government and a broad incumbent in the same operating category (consolidated EMS, fire, emergency management, water/sewer, transit, airport, solid waste). Useful as an upper-bound scale benchmark rather than a direct competitor, since it serves a far larger and more urban population.
• Duval County Government (City of Jacksonville): Consolidated city/county government in northeast Florida providing a similar all-in-one service portfolio (fire, EMS, emergency management, libraries, solid waste, water utilities, airport). Comparable in scope to Volusia but substantially larger, making it a broad-incumbent scale peer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Subsidiaries10 records

Funding overview

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