Port St. Lucie Demographics

The ACS 2020-2024 five-year data profile puts Port St. Lucie city at 232,491 people (±51) with a median age of 43.9 years (±0.6); the county median is 45.1 (±0.1) and Florida's is 42.6 (±0.1) (ACS DP05, Port St. Lucie city).

Every figure in the table is printed as the Census Bureau publishes it in DP05, Port St. Lucie city, DP05, St. Lucie County and DP05, Florida. Children under 18 make up 20.4 percent of Port St. Lucie residents (±0.6) in that profile, and people 65 and over 21.8 percent (±0.7); the 65 and over share is 24.6 percent (±0.1) in the county and 21.3 percent (±0.1) in Florida.

The county and state totals are printed without a margin of error; the county figure is 360,500 and Florida's is 22,416,077 in the same release (ACS DP05, St. Lucie County). The Port St. Lucie sex ratio is 96.1 males per 100 females (±1.9), and for residents 65 and over the table prints 86.8 (±3.5).

Non-Hispanic White residents make up 50.4 percent of Port St. Lucie (±1.2), with 24.0 percent Hispanic or Latino of any race (±0.8) and 19.0 percent non-Hispanic Black or African American (±0.9) in the ACS 2020-2024 profile (ACS DP05, Port St. Lucie city).

The detailed race lines in the Port St. Lucie table include, under one race, Black or African American, Haitian at 4.0 percent (±0.7) and Jamaican at 1.9 percent (±0.5) (ACS DP05). In the ancestry table, West Indian (excluding Hispanic origin groups) is reported by 7.4 percent of city residents (±0.9), with 6.8 percent (±0.7) in St. Lucie County and 4.4 percent (±0.1) statewide (DP02, Port St. Lucie city, DP02, St. Lucie County and DP02, Florida).

The average Port St. Lucie household has 2.76 people (±0.04), with 2.60 (±0.03) in St. Lucie County and 2.51 (±0.01) in Florida, and 54.5 percent of them are married-couple households (±2.0) (ACS DP02, Port St. Lucie city).

The household rows come from DP02, Port St. Lucie city, DP02, St. Lucie County and DP02, Florida. In 40.3 percent of Port St. Lucie households (±1.2) at least one person is 65 or older; the county figure is 43.7 percent (±0.7). Civilian veterans are 8.6 percent of the civilian population 18 and over in the city (±0.8) and also 8.6 percent in the county (±0.6). The survey also found 89.9 percent of city residents (±1.1) living in the same house a year earlier.

Among Port St. Lucie adults 25 and over, 91.7 percent (±0.9) finished high school and 28.1 percent (±1.5) hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 19.7 percent of residents (±1.2) were born outside the United States (ACS DP02, Port St. Lucie city).

Each row is taken from DP02, Port St. Lucie city, DP02, St. Lucie County and DP02, Florida. Of the foreign-born Port St. Lucie population, 72.4 percent (±2.9) are naturalized U.S. citizens and 79.9 percent (±2.4) were born in Latin America, according to the same profile. At home, 26.7 percent of city residents 5 and over (±1.5) speak a language other than English, and 7.4 percent (±1.0) speak other Indo-European languages. A broadband Internet subscription is reported in 94.9 percent of city households (±0.8).

Median household income in Port St. Lucie is $80,648 (±$2,686) in the ACS 2020-2024 profile; the St. Lucie County median is $71,457 (±$2,290) and Florida's $74,568 (±$284), all in 2024 inflation-adjusted dollars (ACS DP03, Port St. Lucie city).

The table draws on DP03, Port St. Lucie city, DP03, St. Lucie County and DP03, Florida. The city's unemployment rate in the five-year profile is 6.0 percent (±0.9), and 9.5 percent of all residents (±1.2) had incomes below the poverty level; the county figure is 12.3 percent (±1.0). The industry line for educational services, and health care and social assistance holds 24.4 percent of employed Port St. Lucie residents 16 and over (±1.5), and retail trade holds 13.2 percent (±1.1). Working residents average 30.5 minutes to work (±0.8), and 12.8 percent (±1.0) worked from home.

In Port St. Lucie, 87.1 percent of housing units (±1.1) are one-unit detached homes; the table prints 71.5 percent (±0.9) for St. Lucie County and 54.7 percent (±0.1) for Florida (ACS DP04, Port St. Lucie city).

All housing rows are from DP04, Port St. Lucie city, DP04, St. Lucie County and DP04, Florida. Units built from 2000 to 2009 make up 35.2 percent of the city's stock (±1.6), and 8.5 percent of Port St. Lucie units were built in 2020 or later. Median gross rent is $1,937 (±$72) in the city and $1,585 (±$57) in the county, and 48.8 percent of renters (±4.7) pay 35.0 percent or more of household income for rent. The homeowner vacancy rate is 0.9 (±0.4) and the rental vacancy rate 7.4 (±2.8).

Every Port St. Lucie figure on this page is a sample-based ACS 2020-2024 five-year estimate, so each one is shown with the margin of error the Census Bureau publishes for it (Census Bureau, Comparing ACS Data).

The Census Bureau advises comparing only non-overlapping five-year datasets, such as 2005-2009 against 2010-2014, and not overlapping ones such as 2005-2009 against 2006-2010 (Comparing ACS Data). The city's own population figures are covered on the Port St. Lucie place profile.

The four Port St. Lucie data profiles cover social (DP02), economic (DP03), housing (DP04) and demographic and housing (DP05) characteristics, with the same tables published for St. Lucie County and Florida. Last verified: October 22, 2026, with all twelve ACS 2020-2024 data profile tables for Port St. Lucie city, St. Lucie County and Florida fetched again and each estimate and margin above matched to them.