Live in Riverview
The City of Port St. Lucie's Riverview neighborhood on the west bank of the North Fork, where the Crosstown Parkway bridge lands: Floresta Elementary, the City's Community Center and the bus transfer station are inside the line, about half the residents are in a hurricane evacuation zone, and every bus is hourly.
Riverview is one of the 36 neighborhoods on the City of Port St. Lucie's own map, about 1,157 acres of the grid General Development Corporation laid out after it bought land along the North Fork of the St. Lucie River in 1958, three years before the city was incorporated. It wraps around Floresta Gardens on the south and east, from Port St. Lucie Boulevard up the river past Crosstown Parkway, whose bridge over the North Fork opened in 2019. The 2020 census counted 6,585 residents on its blocks, about 8% more than on the same ground in 2010, and owners lived in 84% of the occupied homes. Zillow's typical value for ZIP code 34983, which holds 73% of the residents, was $361,472 in August 2026, down 1.3% on the year, but the ZIP held more than six times as many people and is not a Riverview price.
The riverbank of the old grid, with the city's front door next to it
One neighborhood on the City of Port St. Lucie's own map: Riverview, feature 12 (planning area 3f) on the Neighborhood Services department's NICE neighborhoods layer, about 1,157 acres, clipped here to the City's current limits as St. Lucie County's municipal boundaries layer draws them, which leaves out no resident. Traced against the Census Bureau's road and water files: the west bank of the North Fork of the St. Lucie River on the east, around its coves and canal ends, from north of Crosstown Parkway down to Port St. Lucie Boulevard; Port St. Lucie Boulevard on the south, from the river west to Airoso Boulevard; Airoso Boulevard on the west, north to Whitmore Drive; then Whitmore Drive east and Floresta Drive north, the line it shares with Floresta Gardens, which it wraps on the south and east. North of Crosstown Parkway it keeps Floresta Drive on its west and stops near SE Verada Avenue; 28% of its residents live up there. Inside are the City's Port St. Lucie Community Center, the bus transfer station on Deacon Avenue, Whitmore and Harborview parks, Crosstown Plaza Park, the United States Submarine Veterans Park, Floresta Elementary and Olivet Private School. City Hall and the police headquarters are 96 m outside, in Bayshore Heights. No community development district or community redevelopment area touches it. 5,260 of the 2020 residents are in City Council District 4 and 1,325 in District 1, and every one is in St. Lucie Public Schools.
Riverview is a line on the City of Port St. Lucie's own map, not the Riverview near Tampa. It is one of the 36 neighborhoods the City's Neighborhood Services department draws for its NICE program, about 1,157 acres on the west bank of the North Fork of the St. Lucie River. Port St. Lucie Boulevard and Airoso Boulevard are its south and west edges; Whitmore and Floresta drives carry the line around Floresta Gardens and north across Crosstown Parkway. The 2020 census counted 6,585 residents on its blocks, up about 8% on 2010, and 28% of them live north of the parkway. When the City announced residents' votes on neighborhood names in February 2018, this one kept its name; whether people use it was not checked.
The ground is the city's first grid. General Development Corporation bought 40,000 acres along the North Fork in 1958 and the City was incorporated on 27 April 1961; no source read here dates these streets. What changed Riverview most recently is a bridge. Crosstown Parkway's extension to US 1 crossed the river here, a 4,000-foot span begun in 2017 and opened on 28 September 2019, and the parkway meets Floresta Drive at the line's corner in an intersection Wikipedia describes as Florida's first superstreet. Two small City parks beside the bridge date from 2022.
This is also where the City keeps its own front door. City Hall and the police headquarters are 96 m outside the line in Bayshore Heights; inside it are the City's Port St. Lucie Community Center on Airoso Boulevard and Area Regional Transit's Port St. Lucie transfer station on Deacon Avenue. Floresta Elementary is inside too. The buses are free and every one runs hourly, with no Sunday service, so this is still a place to drive. Owners lived in 84% of the occupied homes in 2020.
The river is the risk to price, and the evacuation map reaches further than the flood map. FEMA's effective map of 2020 puts 4.3% of the ground in the 1% annual chance zone, along the water, with 92 residents on those blocks. But St. Lucie County's hurricane evacuation Zone B takes in 3,424 residents, more than half, and all of Riverview is in the planning area around FPL's St. Lucie nuclear plant. The City lists land bordering the river among its repetitive loss areas, and in 2017 Irma's rain reached 10.36 inches at a Port St. Lucie gauge. A homeowners policy does not cover rising water.
No price index follows the City's line. Zillow's typical value for ZIP code 34983, which holds 73% of the residents, was $361,472 in August 2026, down 1.3% on the year; the ZIP held 43,654 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 Riverview. A homesteaded buyer at the ZIP figure owes about $7,106 a year on the base exemption amounts, a landlord about $8,064; at the county's $402,500 single-family median, about $8,022. The City's solid waste and stormwater assessments add $671 for 2026-27, and no exemption reduces them. Save Our Homes resets on a sale, so the seller's bill understates yours. The arithmetic is on the Port St. Lucie page.
- Run the address on FEMA's map and in the County's Know Your Zone lookup, and price a separate flood policy
- Estimate the tax at your purchase price, then add the City's solid waste and stormwater lines
- Ask whether the house is on City water and sewer: an owner still on a well and septic tank pays $18,821 to connect
- Run the address in the district's SchoolSite Locator: the high school line splits the neighborhood
How Riverview got here
- 1958General Development Corporation buys the River Park development and 40,000 acres along the North Fork of the St. Lucie River, with a budget of $50 million.
- 1959The company opens its first bridge over the St. Lucie River, giving the new development direct road access.
- 1961Port St. Lucie becomes a city on 27 April, by House Bill 953.
- 1983Harborview Park, on SE Harborview Drive north of today's parkway, is established, on the City's parks layer.
- 1999The City's parks layer dates the Port St. Lucie Community Center on Airoso Boulevard to this year.
- 2010The census counts about 6,100 residents on the same ground.
- 2017Construction starts on the Crosstown Parkway extension to US 1 and its bridge over the North Fork. In September Hurricane Irma's rain reaches 10.36 inches at a Port St. Lucie gauge.
- 2018On 17 February the City announces official names for 17 neighborhoods chosen by residents' vote at its first NICE Day block party; Riverview keeps its name.
- 2019The first NICE neighborhood meeting of the year, on 23 March at the Community Center, invites Riverview, Floresta Gardens and Floresta Pointe. The 4,000-foot Crosstown Parkway bridge opens on 28 September.
- 2020The census counts 6,585 residents and 2,580 homes. FEMA's flood map panel for the area takes effect on 19 February.
- 2022Crosstown Plaza Park and the United States Submarine Veterans Park, beside the parkway, are established, on the City's parks layer.
- 2024A World War II-era torpedo and a memorial to the Submarine Force are dedicated at the United States Submarine Veterans Park on 12 April.
- 2026Floresta Elementary is graded C for the third year running and St. Lucie West Centennial High B for the third; the City's solid waste assessment rises to $482.16 a house from 1 October.
Small parks inside the line, and the courts across the river
The City's parks inside Riverview are small. Whitmore Park, 4.4 acres on SE Whitmore Drive, and Harborview Park, 4.8 acres north of the parkway, list no playground or courts on the City's layer; the United States Submarine Veterans Park beside Crosstown Parkway has a trail and fishing. The nearest playground is at Kiwanis Park, across Floresta Drive in Floresta Gardens, and the nearest courts are at Lyngate Park across the river. The photographs are of other parts of the city.
What the map does not show: the river is Riverview's edge, not its park. The City's parks layer shows no boat ramp inside the line; the nearest is at Veterans Park at Rivergate, across the water.
Elsewhere in Port St. Lucie, not Riverview
25 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 internal point of the populated census block nearest Riverview's population center, times a road factor of 1.32, with a tiered speed model: honest ranges, not routed times.
Every gym within reach
The City's Port St. Lucie Community Center on Airoso Boulevard, inside the line, has a fitness center on the same membership as the one at the MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Event Center across the river. The only public pool listed is the County's, at Ravenswood.
- Community Center: about 3.0 km by road, $33 a month or $300 a year for an adult
- MIDFLORIDA Event Center: about 4.0 km, open from 6 a.m. on weekdays
- Ravenswood Community Pool: about 5.0 km, season not published where it could be read
| Facility | What it is | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Port St. Lucie Community Center open | The City's center at 2195 SE Airoso Boulevard, inside the line: a fitness center on the same membership as the MIDFLORIDA Event Center's ($33 a month or $300 a year for an adult, $5 a day), an 8,300-square-foot hall and meeting rooms, open daily 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. | 6–9 min |
| MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Event Center open | The City's Fitness & Wellness Center at 9221 SE Event Center Place, across the river: 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at weekends, on the same membership. | 6–10 min |
| Ravenswood Community Pool open | St. Lucie County's pool at 400 SW Ravenswood Lane, the only public pool the county's parks layer lists in the city; its season and hours were not read, because the county's pages refused requests. | 8–11 min |
| Lyngate Park open | The free option: the City's tennis, basketball, racquetball and volleyball courts at 1301 SE Lyngate Drive, across the North Fork. | 5–8 min |
The free option is Lyngate Park across the North Fork: the City's tennis, basketball, racquetball and volleyball courts on 15 acres.
Choice to grade 8, and a high school line through the middle
Every address is in St. Lucie Public Schools, which runs choice from kindergarten to grade 8: no address is zoned to an elementary or middle school. All of Riverview is in the district's Blue zone, and ZIP 34983's bus list includes Floresta Elementary, inside the line, graded C. High schools are assigned by address: the locator gives St. Lucie West Centennial High, graded B, at the reference point and for 4,832 residents, and Port St. Lucie High, graded A, for the 1,753 in ZIP 34984.
| School | Board | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Floresta Elementary School | St. Lucie Public Schools | 1501 SE Floresta Drive, inside the line, 0.5 km from the reference point. Kindergarten to grade 8 is by choice in St. Lucie Public Schools, so no address here is zoned to it: every resident is in the Blue zone, and for ZIP 34983 the Blue 1 transportation area lists Floresta, Northport K-8, Parkway, Rivers Edge and Savanna Ridge elementaries and Southern Oaks Middle. Graded C for 2026, 2025 and 2024. |
| Southport Middle School | St. Lucie Public Schools | 2420 SE Morningside Boulevard, the nearest middle school, 3.7 km in a straight line across the river: graded A for 2026 and 2025 and B for 2024. It is on the Blue 2 list for ZIP 34984; the Blue 1 list for 34983 names Southern Oaks Middle, and a school outside the ZIP's list may come without a bus. |
| St. Lucie West Centennial High School | St. Lucie Public Schools | 1485 Cashmere Boulevard, grades 9 to 12: high schools are assigned by address, and the district's locator gives this one at the reference point and for 4,832 residents, the ZIP 34983 part. Graded B for 2026, 2025 and 2024. |
| Port St. Lucie High School | St. Lucie Public Schools | 1201 SE Lennard Road: the assigned high school for the other 1,753 residents, in ZIP 34984. Graded A for 2026, its first, after B for 2025 and 2024. The grades are the state's as CBS12 republished them; run your own address in the district's SchoolSite Locator. |
Run your own address. A school outside your ZIP's list may come without a bus, and Southport Middle, the nearest middle school, is on 34984's list rather than 34983's. 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 on the 1991 to 2020 normal at the county airport, about 23 km north, with about one night a year at or below freezing
- Bought last year? The homestead exemption is due with the property appraiser by 1 March
- The Mets open their 2027 spring training home schedule at Clover Park on 19 February, about 11 km west by road
- The driest month on the normal, about 55 mm of rain, with highs near 24 °C
- 1 March is the deadline for the homestead exemption and for portability of a Save Our Homes benefit
- The last of the Mets' 15 home dates at Clover Park is 20 March 2027
- St. Lucie Public Schools' open enrollment for kindergarten to grade 8 runs through March (1 to 31 March in 2026)
- Highs near 28 °C and about 77 mm of rain, the last of the dry months
- A good month for the trail at the United States Submarine Veterans Park, inside the line, before the summer heat
- About 100 mm of rain as the wet season begins, highs near 30 °C
- Check the swale and the driveway culvert in front of the house before the storms: they are the owner's to keep clear
- The Atlantic hurricane season runs from 1 June to 30 November
- About 170 mm of rain, mostly in afternoon thunderstorms, and about 12 days reaching 32 °C
- A new flood policy takes 30 days to start, so buy it before the season, not when a storm is named
- Highs near 32 °C and lows near 23 °C, with about 18 days reaching 32 °C
- About 149 mm of rain, nearly all 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 normal, about 176 mm
- The Atlantic season peaks around 10 September; Irma's rain in September 2017 reached 10.36 inches at a Port St. Lucie gauge
- The City holds its budget hearing at City Hall, next door on Port St. Lucie Boulevard (14 September in 2026)
- About 159 mm of rain
- The City's fiscal year starts on 1 October, and with it the year's solid waste assessment ($482.16 a house for 2026-27)
- Hurricane season has two months to run; about 133 mm of rain
- Tax bills come in November, with the solid waste and stormwater assessments on them
- On 3 November 2026 Florida votes on Amendment 3, which would change the homestead exemption from 2027 if 60% approve; District 1's council seat, which takes in 1,325 of Riverview's residents, is up in the same election
- Hurricane season ends on 30 November
- PSLinLights displays at the Community Center, inside the line, and at The Port District are free from dusk to 9 p.m. nightly to 31 December
- The City's Festival of Lights at the MIDFLORIDA Event Center is on 5 December 2026
- Highs near 24 °C and about 59 mm of rain
1 more photograph of Port St. Lucie and the region
Drawn from the site's shared, freely licensed Port St. Lucie photo library, not photographs of Riverview itself. Filter by category.
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