Live in Bayshore Heights
The piece of Port St. Lucie's original grid that holds City Hall, between Bayshore and Airoso boulevards and between Port St. Lucie Boulevard and Crosstown Parkway, where no resident is in FEMA's 1% flood zone, the bus is free but hourly, and the elementary school inside the line is not on the bus list for the zone its residents are in.
General Development Corporation bought 40,000 acres along the North Fork of the St. Lucie River in 1958, and the City of Port St. Lucie was incorporated on 27 April 1961; Bayshore Heights is a piece of that ground the City's neighborhood program named in February 2018, when residents voted to replace the working name East Bayshore. The 2020 census counted 6,067 residents on its 1,049 acres, up about 17% from 5,169 on the same ground in 2010, and owners lived in 82% of the 2,146 occupied homes. City Hall and the police headquarters at 121 SW Port St. Lucie Boulevard are inside the line, at its southeast corner, and the City's Community Center is across Airoso Boulevard. Zillow's typical value for ZIP code 34984, which holds 88% of the residents, was $394,493 in August 2026, down 1.4% on the year, but the ZIP held 16,721 people in 2020 and is not a Bayshore Heights price.
The grid around City Hall, between two boulevards and two big roads
The City of Port St. Lucie's Bayshore Heights neighborhood (OBJECTID 10, planning area 3d) on NS_NEIGHBORHOODS, the map behind the Neighborhood Services department's NICE program, clipped to the City's current limits as St. Lucie County's Municipal Boundaries layer draws them (last edited 18 February 2026): about 1,049 acres. Traced against the City's road classification layer, the line runs along Port St. Lucie Boulevard on the south, from Airoso Boulevard west to Bayshore Boulevard; up Bayshore Boulevard on the west, with Florida's Turnpike about 270 m beyond it, to Crosstown Parkway; east along Crosstown Parkway on the north; and down Airoso Boulevard on the east, back to Port St. Lucie Boulevard. Inside are City Hall, the police headquarters and Bayshore Elementary, and no City park. The Bayshore Business District, a separate City neighborhood of 113 residents, is not part of it. The name is the one residents chose in the City's 2018 naming vote; whether it is in everyday use was not checked. All of it is in City Council District 1, in St. Lucie Public Schools' Blue zone and outside every community development district and community redevelopment area.
Bayshore Heights is a line the City of Port St. Lucie drew, around a name its residents picked. General Development Corporation bought 40,000 acres along the North Fork of the St. Lucie River in 1958, and the City was incorporated on 27 April 1961. In February 2018 the City's neighborhood program announced names for 17 parts of that grid after residents cast 1,547 votes, and the piece it had called East Bayshore became Bayshore Heights. The line runs along Port St. Lucie Boulevard, Bayshore Boulevard, Crosstown Parkway and Airoso Boulevard, about 1,049 acres. The 2020 census counted 6,067 residents there, up about 17% from 5,169 on the same ground in 2010. Whether people here use the name day to day was not checked.
The City's offices are inside the line. City Hall's Building A and the police headquarters stand at 121 SW Port St. Lucie Boulevard, in the southeast corner, and the City's Community Center is across Airoso Boulevard. The rest is houses: owners lived in 82% of the 2,146 occupied homes in 2020, 414 of them with no mortgage, and 385 homes were rented. There is no City park inside.
Water is not the worry it is on the river. FEMA's effective map puts none of the area and none of the residents in the 1% annual chance flood zone, and the County's hurricane evacuation map puts no one here in a zone either. That does not mean dry streets. Rain runs off through the City's swales and canals, the swale and driveway culvert in front of a house are the owner's to keep clear, and Irma left 10.36 inches at a Port St. Lucie gauge in September 2017. A homeowners policy does not cover rising water, so price a flood policy even in Zone X. The area is also inside a planning area for the St. Lucie nuclear plant across the lagoon, which is not a hazard rating.
No price index follows the line. ZIP code 34984 holds 88% of the residents, and Zillow's typical value there was $394,493 in August 2026, down 1.4% on the year, but the ZIP held 16,721 people in 2020. Every City address pays the same seventeen levies, 22.3097 mills for 2025, and no community development district or redevelopment area touches this ground. A homesteaded buyer at the ZIP's figure owes about $7,843 a year on the base exemption amounts; a landlord owes about $8,801. The City's solid waste and stormwater assessments add $671 for 2026-27, and no exemption reduces them. Save Our Homes caps a homestead's assessed value and resets on sale, so the seller's bill understates yours. The arithmetic is on the Port St. Lucie page.
The grid came before the pipes in parts of this city. The reference point is inside Port St. Lucie Utility Systems' water and sewer area, but which lots here are still on a well and septic tank was not read. An owner who converts outside the City's old assessment districts pays $18,821, or $151 a month for ten years.
- Ask whether the house is on City water and sewer or still on a well and septic tank
- Estimate the tax at your purchase price and add the City's solid waste and stormwater assessments
- Price a separate flood policy even in Zone X, and look at the swale and culvert out front
- Read St. Lucie Public Schools' Blue zone list: the elementary school inside the line is on the Red list
How Bayshore Heights got here
- 1958General Development Corporation buys the River Park development and 40,000 acres along the North Fork of the St. Lucie River.
- 1961Port St. Lucie becomes a city on 27 April, with the passage of House Bill No. 953.
- 1993Turtle Run Park opens on Cameo Boulevard, just west of Bayshore Boulevard, in the year the City's parks layer records.
- 1999The City's Community Center opens on Airoso Boulevard, across the road from the eastern edge, by the same layer.
- 2004Hurricanes Frances, on 5 September, and Jeanne, on 26 September, both come ashore at the southern end of Hutchinson Island, east of Stuart.
- 2017Hurricane Irma's rain, 9 to 12 September: 10.36 inches at a Port St. Lucie gauge and 21.66 near Fort Pierce, the most in the state.
- 2018On 17 February the City names 17 neighborhoods after residents cast 1,547 votes; East Bayshore becomes Bayshore Heights.
- 2019Crosstown Parkway, the northern edge, is completed in October as an east-west road from Interstate 95 to US 1.
- 2020The census counts 6,067 residents and 2,249 homes inside the line; owners live in 1,761 of the 2,146 occupied homes.
- 2026Port St. Lucie High School is graded A, after B for 2025 and 2024. The City's budget hearing is held on 14 September at 121 SW Port St. Lucie Boulevard, inside the line, and the solid waste assessment rises to $482.16 a home for 2026-27.
No park inside, two just across Bayshore Boulevard
The City's parks layer puts no park inside Bayshore Heights. The nearest is Turtle Run Park, 10 acres on Cameo Boulevard just west of Bayshore Boulevard, open since 1993, with a ball field, a soccer field, volleyball, a playground, a pavilion and restrooms. North of Crosstown Parkway, Jaycee Park on Bayshore Boulevard has a ball field, a playground and a trail, and the YMCA runs a program center at the same address. The photographs here are the gardens, Clover Park and Stars and Stripes Park in Tradition, none of them in Bayshore Heights.
What the map does not show: how far the crossings are. Bayshore Boulevard and Crosstown Parkway are wide roads, and a child walking to either park has to cross one of them.
Elsewhere in Port St. Lucie, not Bayshore Heights
23 places, with real drive times
Road-adjusted distance and drive time from the centre of the community to each destination, nearest first. Filter by category.
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Method: straight lines from the population-weighted center of the 2020 census blocks inside the line, times a road factor of 1.32, with a tiered speed model: honest ranges, not routed times.
Every gym within reach
The nearest gym is the City's Community Fitness & Wellness Center in the Community Center, across Airoso Boulevard, with cardio machines and free weights. The YMCA here is a program center with group classes, not a full branch, and the City's indoor court is the Robert E. Minsky Gymnasium south of the C-24 canal.
- Community Fitness & Wellness Center: about 2.3 km, weekdays from 5:30 a.m.
- YMCA Bayshore Boulevard Program Center: about 3 km, classes and school-age care
- Robert E. Minsky Gymnasium: about 6.5 km, open daily 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
| Facility | What it is | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Community Fitness & Wellness Center open | The City's fitness room in the Community Center at 2195 SE Airoso Boulevard, across Airoso from the eastern edge: treadmills, ellipticals, rowers, bikes, free weights and Life Fitness strength machines, 5:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m. to noon at weekends. The City's page gives no prices. | 5–7 min |
| YMCA of the Treasure Coast, Bayshore Boulevard Program Center open | At 1301 SW Bayshore Boulevard, north of Crosstown Parkway: group exercise classes and before and after school care, weekdays 7 to 9 a.m. and 2 to 6 p.m. It is a program center, not a full YMCA with a pool. | 5–8 min |
| Robert E. Minsky Gymnasium open | The City's 8,000-square-foot gym at 750 SW Darwin Boulevard in Whispering Pines Park: one full basketball court or two volleyball courts, open daily 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. | 9–13 min |
The free option is Turtle Run Park across Bayshore Boulevard: a soccer field, volleyball and a playground.
Choice for K-8, an assigned high school, and a zone that skips the school next door
Every address is in St. Lucie Public Schools, the county's only district, and it runs choice from kindergarten to grade 8, so no house here is zoned to Bayshore Elementary, though it is inside the line and graded B for 2026. Every resident is in the district's Blue zone, and the bus list for ZIP 34984 names six other schools; Bayshore Elementary is on the Red zone's list. High schools are assigned by address: the locator assigns Port St. Lucie High, graded A for 2026, to 5,322 residents, and St. Lucie West Centennial High, graded B, to the 745 in ZIP 34983.
| School | Board | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Bayshore Elementary School | St. Lucie Public Schools | 1661 SW Bayshore Boulevard, inside the line, pre-kindergarten to grade 5, graded B for 2026, 2025 and 2024. St. Lucie Public Schools runs choice from kindergarten to grade 8, so no address here is zoned to it. Every resident is in the district's Blue zone, and the Transportation Service Area for ZIP 34984, Blue 2, lists Mariposa, Morningside, Savanna Ridge and Village Green elementaries, Northport K-8 and Southport Middle; Bayshore Elementary is on the Red zone's list. The district's choice FAQ says a family may choose outside its list but is not guaranteed a bus. |
| Southport Middle School | St. Lucie Public Schools | 2420 SE Morningside Boulevard, across the North Fork: the middle school on the Blue 2 list for ZIP 34984, graded A for 2026 and 2025 and B for 2024. The 745 residents in ZIP 34983 have the Blue 1 list instead, with Southern Oaks Middle. The nearest district middle grades to the reference point are at St. Lucie West K-8, about 2.7 km in a straight line, graded B for 2026, on the Red list. |
| Port St. Lucie High School | St. Lucie Public Schools | 1201 SE Lennard Road, grades 9 to 12: high schools are assigned by address, and the district's SchoolSite Locator assigns it at the reference point and to 5,322 of the 6,067 residents. Graded A for 2026 after B for 2025 and 2024. |
| St. Lucie West Centennial High School | St. Lucie Public Schools | 1485 SW Cashmere Boulevard, grades 9 to 12: assigned to the other 745 residents, in ZIP code 34983. Graded B for 2026, 2025 and 2024. Grades come from the state's 2026 file as CBS12 republished it, because the Department of Education's site refused automated requests; run your own address in the locator. |
Run your own address. The district's choice FAQ says a family may rank a school outside its list, but a bus is not guaranteed. Check the high school in the SchoolSite Locator.
Month by month, what living here looks like
Not a highlights reel: the actual annual rhythm, including the dates residents have to remember.
- Highs near 23 °C and lows near 11 °C at Treasure Coast International Airport in Fort Pierce, about 24 km north, on the 1991 to 2020 normals, with about one night a year at or below freezing
- If you bought last year, the homestead exemption is due with the St. Lucie County Property Appraiser by 1 March
- Spring training: the New York Mets play their home games at Clover Park, about 9 km northwest, in February and March
- The driest month on the normals, about 55 mm of rain, with highs near 24 °C
- 1 March is the deadline for the homestead exemption and for portability of a previous Florida homestead's Save Our Homes benefit
- The Mets' spring home games at Clover Park continue through March
- Highs near 26 °C and about 73 mm of rain
- The St. Lucie Earth Day Festival at the Oxbow Eco-Center is on Saturday 17 April 2027, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- Highs near 28 °C and about 77 mm of rain, the end of the dry season
- About 100 mm of rain as the wet season starts, with highs near 30 °C
- The swale and driveway culvert in front of a house are the owner's to keep clear, and May is the month to do it
- The Atlantic hurricane season runs from 1 June to 30 November
- The summer afternoon storms begin: about 170 mm of rain, and about 13 days reaching 32 °C
- Highs near 32 °C and lows near 23 °C, with about 18 days reaching 32 °C
- About 149 mm of rain, most of it in afternoon storms
- The property appraiser mails the TRIM notice of proposed taxes in mid-August, and a petition to the Value Adjustment Board is due 25 days after the mailing (8 September in 2026)
- The wettest month on the normals, about 176 mm, with about 19 days reaching 32 °C
- The City's budget hearing is at 121 SW Port St. Lucie Boulevard, inside the line: 14 September in 2026, 5:30 p.m.
- Irma's rain fell here from 9 to 12 September 2017; about 159 mm in an average September
- The City's fiscal year starts on 1 October, with the solid waste assessment at $482.16 a home for 2026-27
- Hurricane season still has two months to run; about 133 mm of rain and highs near 29 °C
- Tax bills arrive in November; the 3 November 2026 ballot carries the District 1 council seat, whose term runs to November, and a constitutional amendment that would raise the non-school homestead exemption from 2027 if 60% of voters approve
- Hurricane season ends on 30 November; about 77 mm of rain
- PSLinLights displays at the Community Center, across Airoso Boulevard, run nightly from dusk to 9 p.m. to 31 December, free; the Festival of Lights at the MIDFLORIDA Event Center is on Saturday 5 December 2026, 2 to 10 p.m.
- Highs near 24 °C and about 59 mm of rain
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