Live in Gatlin Pines

The line is the City's map, not a subdivision, and residents chose the name. Gatlin Pines is one of the 36 neighborhoods Port St. Lucie draws for its Neighborhood Services program: about 1,429 acres 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. Gatlin Boulevard bounds it on the north, Rosser Boulevard on the west and Port St. Lucie Boulevard on the east; on the south it follows Alcantarra Boulevard and then no street at all. The City called it Alcantarra North 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 9,125 residents inside the line, up about 24% from 7,332 on the same ground in 2010.

It is a neighborhood of families with nothing public inside it. 26% of residents were under 18 in 2020, and owners lived in 84% of the 2,963 occupied homes. Yet the City's parks layer and the school district's map put no park and no school inside the line. Everything is across an edge: the county's Paula A. Lewis Branch Library just over Rosser Boulevard, about 1.3 km away; across Port St. Lucie Boulevard, a Publix at Darwin Square, Windmill Point Elementary, Treasure Coast High and Whispering Pines Park with the Minsky Gym; over Rosser, O.L. Peacock Sr. Park, closed for a rebuild since November 2025. Before an offer, walk the route a child would take to them.

No resident is in a FEMA flood zone, and the City is still working on the drainage. FEMA's effective map of 2012 puts the whole area in Zone X, and the County's evacuation map puts no one in a hurricane zone or in the planning area around the St. Lucie nuclear plant. But the City's stormwater page describes an Oak Hammock Watershed Improvements Project for areas that have flooded in recent years, across an area that takes in this neighborhood; it does not say which streets. 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, and a homeowners policy does not cover flood.

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. A lot still on a well and septic tank costs $18,821 to connect to City water and sewer, or $150.72 a month for ten years. The arithmetic is on the Port St. Lucie page.

The bus is on the edge, too. ART's fare-free route 5 runs along Gatlin Boulevard every 60 minutes, and its one stop inside the line, at Savona Boulevard, is 1.3 km from the reference point. ART On Demand covers every resident. A few minutes west, the City's Jobs Express Terminal has 162 free spaces and Palm Tran's $3 express to West Palm Beach. Cleveland Clinic Tradition Hospital is across the interstate.