| Port St. Lucie metropolitan area | |
| Official Name: | Port St. Lucie, FL MSA |
| Settlement Type: | Metropolitan Statistical Area |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Type2: | Largest city |
| Subdivision Name2: | Port St. Lucie |
| Subdivision Type3: | Other cities |
| Subdivision Name3: | Fort Pierce Vero Beach |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
The Port St. Lucie, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) includes St. Lucie and Martin counties in the Treasure Coast region of Florida.
The MSA was defined by the Office of Management and Budget with its current composition in 1983 as the Ft. Pierce, FL MSA, with Fort Pierce as the principal city. The name was changed to Ft. Pierce-Port St. Lucie, FL MSA in 1992, with the addition of Port St. Lucie as a principal city. The name of the MSA was changed to Port St. Lucie-Ft. Pierce, FL MSA in 2003, and to Port St. Lucie, FL MSA in 2006, with the removal of Fort Pierce as a principal city.[1] The Port St. Lucie MSA is included in the Miami-Port St. Lucie-Fort Lauderdale, FL Combined Statistical Area.[2]
The Port St. Lucie, FL MSA was included, together with the Sebastian-Vero Beach, FL MSA (consisting of Indian River County), in the Port St. Lucie-Sebastian-Vero Beach Combined Statistical Area (CSA), in December 2006.[3] In February 2013, the Office of Management and Budget issued a bulletin that defined the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Port St. Lucie CSA, which includes the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach MSA, Okeechobee Micropolitan Statistical Area (μSA), Port St. Lucie MSA, and Sebastian-Vero Beach MSA. The Port St. Lucie-Sebastian-Vero Beach CSA was not listed in that bulletin, as its two components had been moved to the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Port St. Lucie CSA.[4]
The Port St. Lucie MSA has an area of 1115.4sqmi. The population was 319,426 in 2000 and 424,107 in 2010.[5] The Census Bureau's 2020 Report indicated the combined populations for Martin and St. Lucie counties, thus the Port St. Lucie metro area, was 487,657.[6] [7] the Census Bureau estimated the population of the MSA to be 503,521.[8]
the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that there were 149,200 people employed in the metropolitan area, at a median hourly wage of $17.76, a mean hourly wage of $22.94, and a mean annual wage of $47,710.[9]