Port St. Lucie Property Taxes and City Millage

The city lists 4.8750 mills as its property tax rate for FY 2026/27, the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, 2026 (City of Port St. Lucie, Taxes page).

The Port St. Lucie City Council settled on that figure at its Summer Workshop on July 22-23, 2026, cutting the rate from 4.9750 in FY 2025-26, and the city's July 24, 2026 announcement set the adoption hearings for Sept. 14 and Sept. 28 with the budget taking effect Oct. 1, 2026 (city millage announcement, July 24, 2026). The same announcement calls it the 11th consecutive yearly reduction and says the rate has dropped 25% since 2016 (same announcement).

A mill is one dollar of tax for every $1,000 of taxable value; the Taxes page describes the FY 2026/27 rate as $4.87 for every $1,000 of taxable value (Taxes page). Florida law caps a municipality at 10 mills on real and tangible personal property, except for voted levies (Florida Statutes section 200.081).

One wording difference sits on the Port St. Lucie Taxes page itself: one answer says the millage has fallen each year for the past 11 years, while the FAQ on the millage rate says the approved budget cut the rate for the tenth year in a row (Taxes page). The July 2026 announcement uses the 11th consecutive year figure (announcement).

City Council controls only two lines on the bill, the City of Port St. Lucie levy and the voter-approved debt levy that funded the Crosstown Parkway, according to the city (Taxes page).

The Taxes page says those two lines account for about 21% of a total property tax bill and that the remaining 79% is set by other taxing authorities, naming St. Lucie County, St. Lucie County Public Schools, the St. Lucie County Fire District, the South Florida Water Management District and the Children's Services Council (Taxes page). Because Florida requires one consolidated bill from each county Tax Collector, city residents pay seven taxing authorities on a single statement, and the FAQ adds that the council cannot influence the 14 other line items (Taxes page).

The practical point Port St. Lucie makes: a lower city rate does not guarantee a lower bill. Its FAQ lists three reasons a bill can still rise, namely a higher taxable value, higher rates or values from the school board or county, and the loss of an exemption or discount (Taxes page).

The St. Lucie County Property Appraiser lists the city's operating rate and its voted debt rate as two separate taxing authorities, each with a 2025 final, 2026 rolled-back and 2026 proposed rate (Property Appraiser, Taxing Authority Rates and Hearing Information).

Those rows come from the Property Appraiser hearing table, which also gave the city's hearing as September 14, 2026 at 5:30 pm at 121 SW Port St Lucie Blvd, with 772-871-5223 as the contact number. The city's announcement and Taxes page quote single figures (4.9750 and 4.8750), while the appraiser's table splits the operating and voted debt levies onto separate lines; both are shown here as each office publishes them (city announcement).

The rolled-back rate in the Port St. Lucie rows is the rate that would raise the same property tax revenue as the prior year, as defined in Florida Statutes section 200.065.

The Port St. Lucie budget runs from October 1 through September 30 (Annual Budget page), and the millage is adopted through the public hearings set out in Florida Statutes section 200.065.

Under section 200.065, each taxing authority tells the Property Appraiser its proposed millage, its rolled-back rate and the date, time and place of its first hearing within 35 days of value certification; at that hearing it adopts a tentative budget, and within 15 days afterward it must advertise its intent to finally adopt a millage rate and budget at a second hearing. For FY 2026-27 Port St. Lucie named Sept. 14 and Sept. 28 as its two hearing dates (city announcement).

The Port St. Lucie Annual Budget page posts the Proposed Budget FY 26/27, a Proposed Budget in Brief, a CIP fact sheet and the Proposed CIP Budget FY 2027-2036, alongside the Adopted Budget FY 25/26 and a Millage Rate Analysis for earlier years (Annual Budget page). Under the FY 26/27 heading the page lists proposed documents. Budget documents from earlier years can be requested at City Hall or through a public records request (Annual Budget page).

The city states that residents pay $4,381 a year in property taxes on average, of which the City of Port St. Lucie receives approximately $934 (Taxes page).

That Port St. Lucie estimate is based on the FY 26/27 average taxable property value of $243,009 minus a $51,411 homestead exemption, in the city's own wording (Taxes page). The page also offers a Tax Receipt Tool that turns a taxable value into an estimated receipt for city services only, not for the county, school district or other taxing authorities (Taxes page). This guide does not calculate any individual bill; the county Property Appraiser's Tax Estimator, which the Taxes page points to, is the place for an estimate on a specific home (Taxes page).

For the 2026 tax year the Taxes page puts the homestead exemption at up to $51,411 on a primary residence: the first $25,000 applies to all property taxes including school taxes, and the additional amount applies only to non-school taxes (Taxes page). Exemption rules and filing belong to the county office covered in the St. Lucie County Property Appraiser guide.

The Port St. Lucie Special Assessment and Property Tax division bills stormwater, streetlights, solid waste, city water and sewer, and developer special assessment districts on the non-ad valorem part of the bill (Special Assessment and Property Tax page).

The periods above are from the division's FAQ, which also says residential solid waste service is billed annually on the non-ad valorem portion of the bill and takes questions at financeassessment@cityofpsl.com. Non-ad valorem charges are fees for specific services and are not based on a property's value, the Public Works department explains (Stormwater page).

The Stormwater page describes a proposed $6 annual increase, about 50 cents a month, and gives the annual assessment as $189, up from $183, to pay for five drainage projects including the Oak Hammock Watershed Improvements Project (Stormwater page).

The county Property Appraiser mails the TRIM notice, the county Tax Collector issues and collects the bill, and the City of Port St. Lucie only sets its own two rates (Taxes page).

On the TRIM notice, the third column shows the proposed rate and resulting taxes if each taxing authority adopts its proposed rate, and the Property Appraiser notes these amounts can change after public hearings (Property Appraiser, TRIM notices). The 2026 petition deadline for a Value Adjustment Board appeal printed on that page was September 8, 2026 (TRIM notices page). For a copy of a bill the city refers owners to the St. Lucie County Tax Collector at 772-462-1650, and for a home's value to the Property Appraiser at 772-462-1000 (Special Assessment FAQ).

Payment dates, discounts and installment plans are covered in the St. Lucie County Tax Collector guide, and exemptions and appeals in the Property Appraiser guide. Last verified: October 22, 2026, with the city Taxes and Annual Budget pages, the July 2026 millage announcement, the stormwater and assessment pages and the appraiser's 2026 hearing table read again for every rate and date above.