It is roughly coextensive with the Daytona Beach metropolitan area and Volusia County.

[1] As with several other parts of Florida, there have been several attempts to create a regional identity for the Halifax area.

The concept was subsequently adopted by the wider community, appearing in publications of the period and in a 1982 survey of Florida's regions by geographers Ary J. Lamme and Raymond K. Oldakowski.

A 2007 follow-up survey by Lamme and Oldakowski found that it had become one of the least known of Florida's regions, being mentioned explicitly by only one respondent, and appearing only infrequently in publications and promotional materials for the area.

[6] Regardless of these campaigns, "Halifax area" or "Daytona" remain the common way of referring to the region by local organizations.