Let G be a finite connected graph. The degree distance D′(G) of G is defined as ∑ {u,v}⊆V (G)(deg u + deg v) dG(u, v), where degw is the degree of vertex w and dG(u, v) denotes the distance between u and v in G. In this paper, we give asymptotically sharp upper bounds on the degree distance in terms of order and edge-connectivity.