Live in Swan Park

Swan Park is a square of the older grid with a boulevard on every side. It is one of the 36 neighborhoods on the City of Port St. Lucie's Neighborhood Services map, the line its NICE program keeps: Prima Vista Boulevard on the north, Airoso Boulevard on the east, Crosstown Parkway on the south and Bayshore Boulevard running diagonally down the west side, near Florida's Turnpike. It shares its name with the City park on Carmelite Street, and when residents voted on the program's neighborhood names in February 2018, this one was kept; how many residents use it was not checked. The 2020 census counted 7,230 residents on about 1,137 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 public places came early: the county library's Port St. Lucie Branch on Prima Vista opened in 1974, the oldest in the county, and the City's parks layer dates Swan Park and the Ravenswood racquetball courts to 1982 and Jaycee Park to 1983. Owners lived in 78% of the 2,498 occupied homes in 2020. The southern edge changed most recently: Crosstown Parkway's bridge over the North Fork opened on 28 September 2019, making the parkway a third road across the city to US 1.

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.

The flood map leaves Swan Park alone, and that is not the same as dry. FEMA's effective map of 2020 puts none of the neighborhood in the 1% or 0.2% annual chance zones, and no resident is in a County hurricane evacuation zone. Rain is what floods streets here: Irma left 10.36 inches at a Port St. Lucie gauge in 2017, the City's canals and swales carry it, 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 outside the mapped zone the City's rating takes 10% off a flood policy. The County's map puts the neighborhood inside Port St. Lucie Utility Systems' water and sewer area, but parts of the older grid were built on wells and septic tanks and which lots here still are was not read; converting costs $18,821, so ask.

What is missing for now is the library. The Prima Vista branch closed on 30 August 2025 for a $7.8 million rebuild to more than 10,000 square feet and is due back in 2027; until then the nearest open library is the Pruitt Campus Library in St. Lucie West. Route 6, which runs along Airoso and Prima Vista, is the only bus, hourly and fare-free, with six stops inside the line.