Port St. Lucie, FL (Florida) Houses and Residents

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Total population: 154,353 (Urban population: 152,855, Rural population: 1,498 (all nonfarm))

Port St. Lucie, Florida Age and Sex of Residents

Houses: 36,908 (33,902 occupied: 28,114 owner occupied, 5,788 renter occupied)

% of renters here:	17%
State:	30%

Housing density: 489 houses/condos per square mile

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Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses and condos in 2007 in this state: $289,425.

Median contract rent in 2007: $1,053 (lower quartile is $851, upper quartile is $1,201)

Housing units in Port St. Lucie with a mortgage: 19,714 (2,424 second mortgage, 1,764 home equity loan, 77 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 6,265

Port St. Lucie,FL index of house prices

Estimated median house or condo value in 2007: $234,900 (it was $87,700 in 2000)

Port St. Lucie:	$234,900
Florida:	$230,400

Lower value quartile - upper value quartile: $187,100 - $306,000

Mean price in 2007:

Detached houses: $266,568
Here: $266,568
State: $334,342

Townhouses or other attached units: $193,357
Here: $193,357
State: $258,333

In 3-to-4-unit structures: $193,256
Here: $193,256
State: $240,504

In 5-or-more-unit structures: $361,526
Here: $361,526
State: $281,565

Mobile homes: $24,445
Here: $24,445
State: $43,568

Median year house/condo built: 1992

Median year apartment built: 1990

Household type by relationship

Households: 88,214

In family households: 77,787 (20,302 male householders, 5,487 female householders)
21,510 spouses, 24,287 children (21,924 natural, 645 adopted, 1,718 stepchildren), 1,383 grandchildren, 656 brothers or sisters, 955 parents, 1,309 other relatives, 1,898 non-relatives
In nonfamily households: 10,427 (3,704 male householders (2,447 living alone)), 4,424 female householders (3,719 living alone)), 2,299 nonrelatives
In group quarters: 582 (356 institutionalized population)

Size of family households: 12,317 2-persons, 5,466 3-persons, 4,825 4-persons, 2,154 5-persons, 756 6-persons, 271 7-or-more-persons.

Size of nonfamily households: 6,166 1-person, 1,655 2-persons, 238 3-persons, 57 4-persons, 12 5-persons.

14,776 married couples with children.
4,741 single-parent households (1,219 men, 3,522 women).

87.4% of residents of Port St. Lucie speak English at home.
6.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (65% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
4.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 7% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (62% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 17% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (84% speak English very well, 16% speak English well).

Foreign born population: 8,516 (9.6%)
(58.1% of them are naturalized citizens)

Median number of rooms in houses and condos:

Here:	5.8
State:	5.6

Median number of rooms in apartments:

Here:	5.1
State:	3.8

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Rooms in owner-occupied houses in Port St. Lucie, Florida:
	1 room: 8 2 rooms: 203 3 rooms: 1,072 4 rooms: 2,656 5 rooms: 7,874 6 rooms: 8,837 7 rooms: 5,207 8 rooms: 1,556 9 or more rooms: 701

Rooms in renter-occupied apartments in Port St. Lucie, Florida:
	1 room: 82 2 rooms: 178 3 rooms: 510 4 rooms: 1,049 5 rooms: 1,884 6 rooms: 1,342 7 rooms: 588 8 rooms: 101 9 or more rooms: 54

Year house built:

1999 to March 2000: 1,381
1995 to 1998: 5,222
1990 to 1994: 8,069
1980 to 1989: 16,197
1970 to 1979: 5,148
1960 to 1969: 559
1950 to 1959: 205
1940 to 1949: 56
1939 or earlier: 71

Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses and condos in Port St. Lucie:
	no bedroom: 145 1 bedroom: 266 2 bedrooms: 7,168 3 bedrooms: 18,766 4 bedrooms: 1,606 5 or more bedrooms: 163

Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments in Port St. Lucie:
	no bedroom: 140 1 bedroom: 309 2 bedrooms: 2,015 3 bedrooms: 3,106 4 bedrooms: 204 5 or more bedrooms: 14

Breakdown of mean house values by ages of householders

Cars and other vehicles available in Port St. Lucie in owner-occupied houses/condos:
	no vehicle: 664 1 vehicle: 10,570 2 vehicles: 13,202 3 vehicles: 2,886 4 vehicles: 557 5 or more vehicles: 235

Cars and other vehicles available in Port St. Lucie in n renter-occupied apartments
	no vehicle: 268 1 vehicle: 2,580 2 vehicles: 2,462 3 vehicles: 403 4 vehicles: 75 5 or more vehicles: 0

Estimate of home value of owner-occupied houses in 2007 in Port St. Lucie, FL:

Less than $10,000: 66
$10,000 to $14,999: 33
$15,000 to $19,999: 33
$20,000 to $24,999: 33
$25,000 to $29,999: 66
$30,000 to $34,999: 85
$35,000 to $39,999: 85
$40,000 to $49,999: 117
$50,000 to $59,999: 139
$60,000 to $69,999: 137
$70,000 to $79,999: 105
$80,000 to $89,999: 128
$90,000 to $99,999: 171
$100,000 to $124,999: 735
$125,000 to $149,999: 2117
$150,000 to $174,999: 3712
$175,000 to $199,999: 5391
$200,000 to $249,999: 12386
$250,000 to $299,999: 7259
$300,000 to $399,999: 7907
$400,000 to $499,999: 2304
$500,000 to $749,999: 940
$750,000 to $999,999: 143
$1,000,000 or more: 189

Port St. Lucie rent paid by renters for apartments graph

Rent paid by renters in 2007 in Port St. Lucie:

Less than $100: 39 people
$100 to $149: 19
$150 to $199: 27
$200 to $249: 32
$250 to $299: 46
$300 to $349: 33
$350 to $399: 0
$400 to $449: 21
$450 to $499: 35
$500 to $549: 60
$550 to $599: 62
$600 to $649: 60
$650 to $699: 138
$700 to $749: 198
$750 to $799: 340
$800 to $899: 1,150
$900 to $999: 2,454
$1,000 to $1,249: 5,146
$1,250 to $1,499: 1,532
$1,500 to $1,999: 652
$2,000 or more: 345
No cash rent: 240

Year of entry for the foreign-born population
	1995 to March 2000: 864 1990 to 1994: 1,007 1985 to 1989: 847 1980 to 1984: 1,114 1975 to 1979: 713 1970 to 1974: 876 1970 to 1974: 1,095 1965 to 1969: 2,000

Port St. Lucie, FL Time Leaving Home for Work

Percentage of workers working in this county: 55.0%
Number of people working at home: 841 (2.2% of all workers)

Travel time to work

Less than 5 minutes: 477
5 to 9 minutes: 2227
10 to 14 minutes: 4246
15 to 19 minutes: 5880
20 to 24 minutes: 6917
25 to 29 minutes: 3158
30 to 34 minutes: 6911
35 to 39 minutes: 931
40 to 44 minutes: 1216
45 to 59 minutes: 3364
60 to 89 minutes: 1774
90 or more minutes: 991

Port St. Lucie mode of transportation to work chart

Means of transportation to work

Drove a car alone: 32,747 (84%)
Carpooled: 4,555 (12%)
Bus or trolley bus: 32 (0%)
Subway or elevated: 48 (0%)
Railroad: 9 (0%)
Ferryboat: 5 (0%)
Taxi: 40 (0%)
Motorcycle: 154 (0%)
Bicycle: 118 (0%)
Walked: 200 (1%)
Other means: 184 (0%)
Worked at home: 841 (2%)

Household income:

Less than $10,000: 1710
$10,000 to $14,999: 1683
$15,000 to $19,999: 2192
$20,000 to $24,999: 2403
$25,000 to $29,999: 2896
$30,000 to $34,999: 2911
$35,000 to $39,999: 2862
$40,000 to $44,999: 2534
$45,000 to $49,999: 2032
$50,000 to $59,999: 3836
$60,000 to $74,999: 3979
$75,000 to $99,999: 2996
$100,000 to $124,999: 1017
$125,000 to $149,999: 384
$150,000 to $199,999: 368
$200,000 or more: 114

First ancestries reported:

Italian: 11932

Other groups: 11845

German: 10063

Irish: 9736

English: 6451

United States or American: 5962

Polish: 2990

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups):: 2719

French (except Basque): 2025

Jamaican: 1552

French Canadian: 1207

Scottish: 1155

Scotch-Irish: 869

Dutch: 865

Russian: 821

Norwegian: 750

Swedish: 750

Haitian: 667

Hungarian: 653

Portuguese: 443

Greek: 395

Slovak: 304

Arab:: 287

Ukrainian: 279

European: 274

Subsaharan African:: 268

Lithuanian: 257

British: 238

Canadian: 215

African: 214

Czech: 211

Danish: 193

Austrian: 189

Trinidadian and Tobagonian: 165

Finnish: 163

Welsh: 161

West Indian: 131

Arab/Arabic: 123

Bahamian: 118

Czechoslovakian: 113

Scandinavian: 107

Lebanese: 94

Swiss: 91

Yugoslavian: 67

Pennsylvania German: 57

Guyanese: 57

Brazilian: 51

British West Indian: 48

Slovene: 47

Barbadian: 38

Turkish: 38

Croatian: 36

Belgian: 34

Eastern European: 33

Other Arab: 31

Latvian: 30

Basque: 30

Slavic: 29

South African: 26

Romanian: 25

Jordanian: 21

Bulgarian: 19

Armenian: 17

Iranian: 16

Carpatho Rusyn: 16

Maltese: 14

Nigerian: 12

Palestinian: 11

German Russian: 11

Ghanian: 8

Zimbabwean: 8

Icelander: 7

Celtic: 7

Acadian/Cajun: 7

Estonian: 7

Australian: 7

Moroccan: 7

Israeli: 6

Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents (%):

Jamaica (16%)
Italy (6%)
United Kingdom (5%)
Haiti (5%)
Mexico (5%)
Cuba (5%)
Germany (5%)

Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:

This state: 21702
Northeast: 34999
Midwest: 11395
South: 8717
West: 1849

52% of Port St. Lucie residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 41% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 47% lived in Florida.

Education attainment for males 25 years and older:

No schooling: 166
Nursery to 4th grade: 51
5th and 6th grade: 237
7th and 8th grade: 539
9th grade: 740
10th grade: 1,008
11th grade: 861
12th grade, no diploma: 1,467
High school graduate (or equivalency): 9,806
Less than 1 year of college: 2,808
Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 4,902
Associate degree: 2,089
Bachelor's degree: 3,088
Master's degree: 957
Professional school degree: 415
Doctorate degree: 176

Educational Attainment for Males

Education attainment for females 25 years and older:

No schooling: 174
Nursery to 4th grade: 91
5th and 6th grade: 253
7th and 8th grade: 551
9th grade: 603
10th grade: 797
11th grade: 899
12th grade, no diploma: 1,684
High school graduate (or equivalency): 11,783
Less than 1 year of college: 3,350
Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 4,841
Associate degree: 3,031
Bachelor's degree: 3,209
Master's degree: 1,028
Professional school degree: 335
Doctorate degree: 68

Educational Attainment for Females

Class of Workers

Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic males: 3.0%
Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic females: 4.5%

Unemployment rate for Black males: 5.9%
Unemployment rate for Black females: 3.8%

Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native males: 9.6%
Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native females: 22.0%

Unemployment rate for Asian males: 7.5%
Unemployment rate for Asian females: 6.2%

Unemployment rate for other race males: 0.0%
Unemployment rate for other race females: 1.3%

Unemployment rate for two or more race males: 1.2%
Unemployment rate for two or more race females: 13.2%

Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino males: 7.1%
Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino females: 7.7%

Median household income in 2007 for:

White non-Hispanic householders: $51,851
Black householders: $37,971
American Indian and Alaska Native householders: $89,948
Asian householders: $45,388
Some other race householders: $61,237
Two or more races householders: $53,182
Hispanic or Latino race householders: $50,677

Port St. Lucie household income for White non-Hispanic householders

Port St. Lucie household income for Black householders

Port St. Lucie household income for Asian householders

Port St. Lucie household income for Two or more races householders

Port St. Lucie household income for Hispanic or Latino race householders

Port St. Lucie marital status for males

Port St. Lucie marital status for females

Median 2007 house value for:

White Non-Hispanic householders: $237,578
Black or African American householders: $245,345
American Indian or Alaska Native householders: $243,203
Asian householders: $251,774
Some other race householders: $226,864
Two or more races householders: $225,257
Hispanic or Latino householders: $228,739

Housing units in structures:

One, detached: 31,683
One, attached: 1,817
Two: 149
3 or 4: 666
5 to 9: 898
10 to 19: 431
20 to 49: 198
50 or more: 159
Mobile homes: 899
Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 8

Median worth of mobile homes: $40,600

Housing units lacking complete plumbing facilities: 0%

Housing units lacking complete kitchen facilities: 0%

Year Householders Moved Into Unit in Port St. Lucie:

Most commonly used house heating fuel in houses and condos:
	Electricity (97%) Utility gas (2%) No fuel used (1%) Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)

Most commonly used house heating fuel in apartments:
	Electricity (94%) Utility gas (3%) Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%) No fuel used (1%)

Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,044

Here:	10.1%
Florida:	11.7%

Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 319

Here:	6.9%
Florida:	9.7%

Students in private undergraduate colleges: 431

Here:	13.6%
Florida:	21.0%

School Enrollment by Level of School for Male Students

School Enrollment by Level of School for Female Students

Age and Sex of Sensory-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Physically-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Mentally-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

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