Live in Becker Ridge

The line is the City's map, and residents chose the name. Becker Ridge is one of the 36 neighborhoods Port St. Lucie draws for its Neighborhood Services program: about 902 acres at the southern end of the grid General Development Corporation began after buying about 40,000 acres along the North Fork in 1958, three years before the city was incorporated. Florida's Turnpike is the eastern edge, the C-23 canal and the Martin County line the southern one, and Darwin Boulevard part of the western. The City called it Ridgecrest until 17 February 2018, when it announced the names residents had picked in 1,547 votes; whether residents use the new one day to day was not checked. The 2020 census counted 4,152 residents inside the line, up about 30% from 3,202 on the same ground in 2010.

It is a grid of owner-occupied houses with almost nothing public inside it. Owners lived in 87% of the 1,409 occupied homes in 2020. Becker Road runs through the middle to the Turnpike's exit 138, and 899 residents live south of it, between the road and the canal. There is no school inside the line and no finished park: the nearest point on the City's parks layer is the Treasure Coast Model Railroad, 1.3 km away on Becker Road. Duck Court Park, under an acre at the southern edge, was still closed for construction on 1 October 2026.

One resident in five lives on a block in FEMA's 1% annual chance flood zone. On the effective map of 2020 it is a strip along the eastern side, beside the Turnpike, mapped as zone AH with a base flood elevation of 18 feet; it covers 14.3% of the area and the blocks of 854 residents. The reference point itself is in zone X. The County's evacuation map puts no one here in a hurricane zone or in the planning area around the St. Lucie nuclear plant. Irma left 10.36 inches at a Port St. Lucie gauge in 2017; the swale and driveway culvert in front of a house are the owner's to keep clear. A homeowners policy does not cover flood, and the City's rating takes 25% off a flood policy inside the mapped zone.

No price index follows the City's line. Every resident is in ZIP code 34953, where Zillow's typical value was $397,936 in August 2026, down 0.4% on the year, but the ZIP held 77,023 people. Every address pays the same seventeen levies, 22.3097 mills for 2025, and no community development district reaches here. A homesteaded buyer at the ZIP's figure owes about $7,920 a year on the base exemption amounts, a landlord about $8,878. The City's solid waste and stormwater assessments add about $656, which no exemption reduces. Save Our Homes caps a homestead's assessed value at 3% a year and resets on a sale, so the seller's bill understates yours. Which lots here are still on a well and septic tank was not read; one that is costs $18,821 to connect to City water and sewer. The arithmetic is on the Port St. Lucie page.

This is a place to drive, and the Turnpike is the reason to be here. No bus stops inside the line: the nearest, on ART's fare-free route 5 at Port St. Lucie Boulevard and Tulip Boulevard, is 5.7 km from the center and runs every 60 minutes. ART On Demand's Zone 1, a door-to-door service, covers 4,019 of the residents. Across the interchange are the nearest Publix and Florida Coast Medical Center, which opened on 9 September 2025 with 54 beds and a 24-hour emergency room. The center of Stuart, across the county line, is about 9.5 km east.