Live in Northport Village
The older platted grid of Port St. Lucie between Florida's Turnpike and the North Fork of the St. Lucie River, north of Prima Vista Boulevard, where four homes in five are lived in by their owners, no community development district adds to the tax bill, and the river is both the edge of the neighborhood and the only part of it in FEMA's flood zone.
Northport Village is one of the 36 neighborhoods on the City of Port St. Lucie's Neighborhood Services map, the line its NICE program keeps; the City called it Northport until a resident vote renamed it in February 2018, and it is not North Port, the Sarasota County city. The ground is part of the grid of lots and canals that General Development Corporation laid out after it bought land along the North Fork in 1958, three years before Port St. Lucie became a city. The 2020 census counted 9,790 residents on it, up 13% from about 8,658 on the same ground in 2010, and owners lived in 80% of the 3,381 occupied homes. Zillow's typical value for ZIP code 34983, which holds every resident, was $361,472 in August 2026, down 1.3% on the year, but that ZIP held 43,654 people in 2020 and is not a Northport Village price.
A neighborhood of owners on the grid, with the river on one side and the Turnpike on the other
The City of Port St. Lucie's Northport Village neighborhood (NS_NEIGHBORHOODS, OBJECTID 7, planning area 3a), the map its Neighborhood Services department keeps for the NICE program, clipped to the City's current limits as St. Lucie County's Municipal Boundaries layer draws them, which here changes nothing: about 1,821 acres. Florida's Turnpike is the western edge. Prima Vista Boulevard is the southern edge from the Turnpike east to Airoso Boulevard, and from there the line runs north on Airoso and southeast along Floresta Drive, leaving the land between Floresta Drive, Prima Vista and the river outside the neighborhood. The North Fork of the St. Lucie River is the eastern edge north of that. The northern edge is not a street: the City's line crosses Selvitz Road, Jorgensen Road and St. James Drive at about the latitude of the end of North Macedo Boulevard, where the City's St. Lucie North neighborhood begins. Inside are Northport K-8 School, Sportsman's Park, Sportsman's Park West, Girl Scout Friendship Park and Gulf Stream Park. The county library's Port St. Lucie Branch, across Prima Vista Boulevard, is 38 m outside, in Swan Park. All of it is in St. Lucie County, City Council District 1 and St. Lucie Public Schools, and none of it is in a community development district or a community redevelopment area.
This is Port St. Lucie's Northport Village, not North Port, the Sarasota County city. It is one of the 36 neighborhoods on the City's Neighborhood Services map, the line its NICE program keeps: Florida's Turnpike on the west, Prima Vista Boulevard on the south, the North Fork of the St. Lucie River on the east and, on the north, a line across Selvitz Road and St. James Drive that is not a street. The program called this ground Northport until a resident vote renamed it in February 2018; whether people who live here use the name was not checked. The 2020 census counted 9,790 residents on about 1,821 acres, up 13% from 2010.
The ground is part of the grid General Development Corporation laid out after it bought 40,000 acres along the North Fork in 1958, three years before Port St. Lucie became a city. The parks came with the houses: Sportsman's Park dates from 1975 on the City's parks layer and Girl Scout Friendship Park from 1992. It is a neighborhood of owners, who lived in 80% of the 3,381 occupied homes in 2020, and Northport K-8 on Floresta Drive is the only district school inside. When residents came to a NICE meeting in November 2019, they asked for sidewalks and streetlights.
The tax bill carries no district of its own. None of the neighborhood is in a community development district, so the bill is the seventeen levies every City address pays, 22.3097 mills for 2025, plus the City's solid waste and stormwater assessments, $671 together for 2026-27, which no exemption reduces. No price index follows the City's line. Every resident is in ZIP code 34983, where Zillow's typical value was $361,472 in August 2026, down 1.3% on the year, but that ZIP held 43,654 people. A homesteaded buyer at that figure owes about $7,106 a year on the base exemption amounts, a landlord about $8,064. 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. The arithmetic is on the Port St. Lucie page.
What is not known is the pipe under a given house. The County's map puts the neighborhood inside Port St. Lucie Utility Systems' water and sewer service area, but a service area is not a connection, and parts of the older grid were built on wells and septic tanks. Which lots here still are was not read. Converting costs $18,821, or $150.72 a month for ten years, so ask.
The river is the flood zone, and only the river. FEMA's map of 2020 puts 3.8% of the neighborhood in the 1% annual chance zone, all along the North Fork, with 247 residents on those blocks; the County puts 754 in hurricane evacuation Zone B. Away from the bank, rain is the usual flood: Irma left 10.36 inches at a Port St. Lucie gauge in 2017, and the swale and culvert in front of a house are the owner's to keep clear. A homeowners policy does not cover rising water. And this is a place to drive: every ART bus is hourly, and the nearest stops are on route 8, the 25th Street Express to Fort Pierce.
- Ask whether the house is on City water and sewer or a well and septic tank, and whether a connection agreement is still being paid
- Estimate the tax at your purchase price: the seller's Save Our Homes cap ends with the sale
- On the river side, run the address on FEMA's map and price a separate flood policy
- Rank schools in the district's choice window: the neighborhood is in the Blue zone, and West Gate K-8 is not on its list
How Northport Village got here
- 1958General Development Corporation buys the River Park development and 40,000 acres along the North Fork of the St. Lucie River, the land the city's grid of lots and canals is laid out on.
- 1961Port St. Lucie becomes a city on 27 April under House Bill No. 953, with 250 homes built by February.
- 1975Sportsman's Park opens on Prima Vista Boulevard, the year the City's parks layer gives for it; Sportsman's Park West follows in 1985 and Gulf Stream Park in 1988.
- 1992Girl Scout Friendship Park on Heather Street, the nearest City park to the reference point, is established.
- 2010The census counts about 8,658 residents on the ground that is now Northport Village.
- 2017Hurricane Irma's rain, 9 to 12 September, measures 10.36 inches at a Port St. Lucie gauge.
- 2018At the City's first NICE Day block party on 17 February, the neighborhood the program had called Northport is renamed Northport Village after a month of resident voting.
- 2019On 23 November, 13 residents of Northport Village and Torino at a NICE meeting ask for sidewalks, streetlights and landscaping.
- 2020The census counts 9,790 residents and 3,600 homes inside the City's line; FEMA's St. Lucie County flood map panel for the reference point takes effect on 19 February.
- 2025The county's Port St. Lucie Branch Library across Prima Vista Boulevard closes on 30 August for a $7.8 million rebuild, due to reopen in 2027.
- 2026Northport K-8 is graded C by the state, down from B.
Ball fields and courts on Prima Vista, and the river beyond the houses
Sportsman's Park, 16 acres on Prima Vista Boulevard, has baseball, basketball and tennis under lights, a playground and a pavilion, and Sportsman's Park West beside it has a track and open fields. Girl Scout Friendship Park and Gulf Stream Park are the other two inside. North on St. James Drive, outside the line, the County's Oxbow Eco-Center keeps a preserve on the North Fork and holds the Earth Day festival each April. The photographs here are the Botanical Gardens and Tradition, not any of these parks.
What the map does not show: Gulf Stream Park's 8.5 acres carry no listed facilities on the City's parks layer, so count it as open ground rather than a playground.
Elsewhere in Port St. Lucie, not Northport Village
22 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.
Showing 1–12 of 22 places, nearest first.
Method: straight lines from the population-weighted center of the neighborhood's 2020 census blocks, times a road factor, with a tiered speed model: honest ranges, not routed times.
Every gym within reach
No source read shows a City pool. The nearest public one is the County's Ravenswood Community Pool, across Prima Vista Boulevard in Swan Park; the City's indoor centers are the Port St. Lucie Community Center on Airoso Boulevard and the Fitness & Wellness Center at the MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Event Center.
- Ravenswood Community Pool: about 2 km; its season was not read
- Port St. Lucie Community Center: about 8 km south
- MIDFLORIDA Fitness & Wellness Center: about 9 km, seven days
| Facility | What it is | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Ravenswood Community Pool open | St. Lucie County's pool at 400 SW Ravenswood Ln., across Prima Vista Boulevard in Swan Park, the only public pool the County lists in the city: a lifeguarded community pool, a splash pad and shuffleboard. Its season and hours were not read, because the County's pages refused requests. | 5–7 min |
| Port St. Lucie Community Center open | The City's indoor recreation center at 2195 SE Airoso Blvd., south on Airoso Boulevard; while the Prima Vista library is rebuilt it also holds a book vending machine, 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. | 9–14 min |
| MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Event Center open | The City's Fitness & Wellness Center at 9221 SE Event Center Place: 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at weekends. | 10–15 min |
| Robert E. Minsky Gymnasium open | The City's gymnasium at 800 SW Darwin Blvd. beside Whispering Pines Park, the farthest of its three indoor centers from here. | 13–20 min |
| Sportsman's Park open | The free option, inside the line: lit basketball and tennis courts, a ball field and a playground on Prima Vista Boulevard. | 4–6 min |
The free option is Sportsman's Park, inside the line: lit basketball and tennis courts on Prima Vista Boulevard, and the track at Sportsman's Park West.
Choice for kindergarten to grade 8, Fort Pierce Central by address
Every address is in St. Lucie Public Schools, which runs choice for kindergarten to grade 8: the neighborhood is in the Blue zone, and ZIP 34983's Blue 1 bus area lists Northport K-8, inside the line and graded C for 2026, Parkway Elementary, graded A, and Southern Oaks Middle among others. High schools are assigned by address, and every resident here is assigned to Fort Pierce Central High, graded C for 2026 and B for 2025.
| School | Board | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Northport K-8 School | St. Lucie Public Schools | 250 NW Floresta Dr., inside the line, kindergarten to grade 8, 0.74 km from the reference point in a straight line. St. Lucie Public Schools runs choice for kindergarten to grade 8, so no address here is zoned to it: the neighborhood is in the Blue zone, and the district's Blue 1 bus area for ZIP 34983 lists Floresta, Parkway, Rivers Edge and Savanna Ridge elementaries, Northport K-8 and Southern Oaks Middle. Graded C for 2026, B for 2025 and C for 2024. |
| Parkway Elementary School | St. Lucie Public Schools | 7000 NW Selvitz Rd., 2.5 km north of the reference point: on the Blue 1 list, graded A for 2026, 2025 and 2024. West Gate K-8, nearer at 2.0 km and graded B for 2026, is on the Red zone's list across the Turnpike, so it is a choice outside the zone and the district does not promise a bus to it. |
| Southern Oaks Middle School | St. Lucie Public Schools | 5500 NE St. James Dr., grades 6 to 8: the middle school on the Blue 1 list, graded B for 2026 and C for 2025 and 2024. |
| Fort Pierce Central High School | St. Lucie Public Schools | 4101 S. 25th St., Fort Pierce, grades 9 to 12, about 7 km north in a straight line: the high school the district's locator assigns at the reference point and for all 9,790 residents, because high schools are assigned by address and the district gives Fort Pierce Central to ZIP 34983 north of Prima Vista Boulevard. Graded C for 2026 and B for 2025 and 2024. The grades are the state's, republished by CBS12 because the state's site refused automated requests; check one on the Florida Department of Education's site. |
Apply in the window: January for high school and K-8 early enrollment, March for K-8 open enrollment. West Gate K-8, 2 km away and graded B, is on the Red zone's list, so a bus to it is not promised. The grades are the state's as CBS12 republished them.
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, the nearest station with 1991 to 2020 normals, about 19 km north; about one night a year at or below freezing, and 72 mm of rain
- St. Lucie Public Schools' high school enrollment and K-8 early enrollment both ran 1 to 31 January in 2026
- If you bought last year, file for the homestead exemption with the St. Lucie County Property Appraiser by 1 March
- The driest month on the normal, about 55 mm, with highs near 24 °C
- The New York Mets open spring training at Clover Park in St. Lucie West on 19 February 2027: home games on 19, 20, 23, 24, 27 and 28 February
- 1 March is the deadline for the homestead exemption and for portability of a Save Our Homes benefit from a previous Florida homestead
- The Mets' last home games of spring are on 19 and 20 March 2027, nine home dates in March in all
- K-8 open enrollment with St. Lucie Public Schools ran 1 to 31 March in 2026
- Highs near 26 °C and about 73 mm of rain
- The St. Lucie Earth Day Festival at the Oxbow Eco-Center, north of the neighborhood on St. James Drive, is on Saturday 17 April 2027, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- Highs near 28 °C and about 77 mm of rain
- Highs near 30 °C, with about five days reaching 32 °C, and about 100 mm of rain before the summer storms begin
- The Atlantic hurricane season runs from 1 June to 30 November
- About 170 mm of rain, mostly in afternoon thunderstorms, and about 13 days reaching 32 °C
- Ask the seller how the swale and the driveway culvert in front of the house drained in past storms: both are the owner's to keep clear
- 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 that the swales and canals have to carry
- 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 normal, about 176 mm, and the warmest, with highs near 32 °C and about 19 days reaching 32 °C
- The Atlantic season peaks around 10 September, with most activity from mid-August to mid-October
- Irma's rain, 9 to 12 September 2017, measured 10.36 inches at a Port St. Lucie gauge
- About 159 mm of rain
- FEMA's 1% zone here is the North Fork's bank; on a street away from the river a heavy rain is a question for the swale, not the flood map
- Hurricane season has two months to run
- Highs near 29 °C and about 133 mm of rain as the dry season begins
- Hurricane season ends on 30 November
- Highs near 26 °C and about 76 mm of rain, half of October's
- Highs near 24 °C and lows near 13 °C, and about 59 mm of rain, one of the drier months
- Hurricane season is over until 1 June
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About these photographs. Openly licensed images from the site's shared Port St. Lucie library, found on Wikimedia Commons and served from there with full attribution. None of them is presented as a photograph of Northport Village.