Live in St. Lucie North

St. Lucie North is the City's name for the northeast corner of Port St. Lucie. Its neighborhood program draws the line from Florida's Turnpike east to the North Fork of the St. Lucie River, and from Midway Road south to about 1.4 km short of Prima Vista Boulevard: some 2,925 acres. The land was part of what General Development Corporation incorporated as the city in 1961, but most of what stands on it is later, the St. James Golf Club, St. Andrews and River Place subdivisions along St. James Drive and Selvitz Road. The 2020 census counted 7,702 residents inside today's city limits, up from about 6,495 on the same ground in 2010. Whether residents use the name for exactly this ground was not checked.

What sets it apart from its neighbors is what is inside the line. Three district schools, Parkway Elementary, Rivers Edge Elementary and Southern Oaks Middle, are on Selvitz Road and St. James Drive; the two elementary schools were graded A by the state for 2026. A Publix is on St. James Drive. Four City parks are inside, the largest Charles E. Ray Park with its courts and ball field, and on the river is the county's Oxbow Eco-Center, 225 acres of trails and boardwalks, free from sunrise to sunset.

One corner carries a second set of lines on the tax bill. In 2020, 631 residents, 8% of the guide, lived inside River Place on the St. Lucie, a community development district the City created in 2000. A district repays its bonds and runs its common ground through assessments collected on the county tax bill, and what River Place charges a given lot was not read for this guide. On a River Place address, read the parcel's record with the St. Lucie County Property Appraiser and the last bill with the tax collector before an offer: the first sale of a lot in a district has to disclose the assessment in bold, and a resale does not.

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 the ZIP held 43,654 people in 2020. Every City address pays the same seventeen levies, 22.3097 mills for 2025. A homesteaded buyer at the ZIP's figure owes about $7,106 a year on the $25,000 base exemption amounts, a landlord about $8,064, and the City's solid waste and stormwater assessments add $671 for 2026-27 that no exemption reduces. Save Our Homes caps a homestead's assessed value at 3% a year and ends with a sale, so the seller's bill understates yours. The arithmetic is on the Port St. Lucie page.

The river is the edge, and the flood zone follows it. FEMA's map of 2020 puts 6.4% of the area in the 1% annual chance zone, with 15 residents on blocks inside it; the City lists land bordering the river among its repetitive loss areas. Irma's rain, 10.36 inches on a Port St. Lucie gauge in 2017, is what floods streets here, and a homeowners policy does not cover rising water. All 7,702 residents are inside the planning area around FPL's St. Lucie nuclear plant. The County's utility map puts the whole area in the City's water and sewer service area; whether a given lot is still on a well and septic tank was not read, and connecting one costs $18,821.