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Port St. Lucie, FL

St. Lucie County

City in St. Lucie County, Florida, United States.

Population
258,575 (2024)
Density
2,169 / sq mi
Land area
119.2 sq mi
Water area
1.6 sq mi
Elevation
16 ft
Founded
1961
Coordinates
27.2806, -80.3883

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Photos of Port St. Lucie

  • PGA Village

    Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0

  • TraditionTownHallSide-Jan2009

    Formulanone · CC BY-SA 3.0

  • TraditionSquare-Jan2009

    Formulanone · CC BY-SA 3.0

  • Governor Mitt Romney with campaign aide Mike Norris, after campaign rally in Port St. Lucie, Florida

    Norris.michaelj · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • Big Headed Ant mud tube in Florida.

    Green Pest Expert · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • Big Headed Ant mudtube in Florida

    Green Pest Expert · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • Side of Bench FT Thomas

    Tvincent2001 · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • ISS046-E-36414 - View of Earth

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Climate

July average high
90°F
January average low
51°F
Annual rainfall
51.2 in
Annual snowfall
0.0 in
  1. 73° 51° Jan 2.8"
  2. 76° 54° Feb 2.2"
  3. 78° 57° Mar 2.9"
  4. 82° 61° Apr 3.0"
  5. 86° 67° May 3.9"
  6. 89° 71° Jun 6.7"
  7. 90° 73° Jul 5.9"
  8. 90° 73° Aug 6.9"
  9. 88° 73° Sep 6.3"
  10. 84° 69° Oct 5.3"
  11. 79° 61° Nov 3.0"
  12. 75° 56° Dec 2.3"

NOAA 1991–2020 normals from Ft Pierce St Lucie Co Intl Ap (24 km from the city center). Bars show average low to high temperature; the blue column is average rainfall.

How Port St. Lucie ranks

Local facts

Median household income
$78,137
Median rent
$1,781 / mo
Median home value
$327,700
Median age
43.7
Unemployment
5.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher
26.8%
Poverty rate
8.5%
Renter-occupied homes
16.8%

Public schools

Public schools located in the city, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Staffing figures describe resources, not school quality.

Public schools
32
Students enrolled
32,025
Students per teacher
19.6 : 1
Free or reduced-price lunch
63.0%
Charter schools
21.9%
School districts serving the city
2

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Districts: St. Lucie, Fau Lab Sch

Health & wellbeing

CDC PLACES model-based estimates for adults (age-adjusted), not a count of diagnoses.

Adults with obesity
30.5%
No leisure-time physical activity
23.4%
Adults with diabetes
10.4%
Adults who smoke
13.2%
Frequent mental distress
18.3%
Sleeping under 7 hours
37.9%
Adults without health insurance
15.5%
Routine checkup in past year
73.9%

Parks, air & walkability

Residents within a 10-minute walk of a park
27.6%
Share of city that is parkland
8.3%
EPA walkability index (1-20)
7.6
Median air quality index (county)
34
Unhealthy air days (county)
0

Internet & commuting

Households with broadband
94.3%
Households with no internet
3.7%
Average commute
29.6 min
Work from home
10.5%
Commute by transit
0.1%
Commute on foot
1.1%
Commute by bike
0.3%

Natural hazard risk

FEMA rates St. Lucie County as relatively high overall for natural hazard risk, with 13 federally declared disasters in the past ten years.

  • Hurricane: very high
  • Lightning: very high
  • Strong wind: relatively high
  • Riverine flooding: relatively moderate

Data: © OpenStreetMap contributors, FEMA National Risk Index, U.S. Census Bureau ACS, CDC PLACES, NCES Common Core of Data, The Trust for Public Land ParkServe, EPA AirData, EPA Smart Location Database, NOAA Climate Normals, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata

ZIP codes

  • 34952
  • 34953
  • 34957
  • 34983
  • 34984
  • 34986
  • 34987