Live in Oak Hammock

The line is the City's. Oak Hammock is one of the 36 neighborhoods Port St. Lucie draws for its Neighborhood Services program: about 1,036 acres with Interstate 95 on the west, Crosstown Parkway and California Boulevard on the north, Savona Boulevard on the east and the C-24 canal along the whole south side. It is part of the grid General Development Corporation began after buying about 40,000 acres along the North Fork in 1958; the city was incorporated in 1961. The 2020 census counted 5,188 residents inside the line, up about 27% from 4,101 on the same ground in 2010. Whether people here call the streets Oak Hammock was not checked; the name is on the City's map and on the park the City opened on the canal in 2000.

What the name suggests is not quite what is inside. Oak Hammock Park, 48.7 acres with about three miles of trails through oak and palm hammock, is inside. Oak Hammock K-8 School is not: it stands just across the eastern line on California Boulevard, in the City's Palm Trails neighborhood, and no district school is inside at all. Owners lived in 84% of the 1,732 occupied homes in 2020. No community development district and no redevelopment area touches the line, so the bill is the one every City address pays.

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 here 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 the large area east of Interstate 95, north of Port St. Lucie Boulevard and west of the Turnpike, which takes in this neighborhood; the page does not say which streets flooded. Irma left 10.36 inches at a Port St. Lucie gauge in September 2017. Rain here drains through swales and the C-24, and 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 a flood policy waits 30 days before it starts.

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. 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, and no exemption touches them. 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 house on this older grid still on a well and septic tank costs $18,821 to connect, or $150.72 a month for ten years; no layer read here says which lots those are. The arithmetic is on the Port St. Lucie page.

This is a place to drive. Crosstown Parkway, completed in 2019, runs along the northern edge, and the interstate is the western fence. No bus stop is inside: the nearest, on Gatlin Boulevard, is 2.0 km away in a straight line, on ART's fare-free route 5, every 60 minutes. The Jobs Express Terminal on Gatlin Boulevard has 162 free spaces and Palm Tran's $3 express to West Palm Beach, four round trips a weekday.