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Port St. Lucie, Florida
37,970 Black residents · 18.5% of the place
Port St. Lucie is a city in Florida, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 204,851 residents in all, 37,970 of them Black alone — 18.5% of the place.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 204,851 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 37,970 |
| Black share of the place, 2020 | 18.5% |
| Rank by Black population among Florida places | 12 of 955 |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1 (race). Trend: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1.
Population Trend
Across the last two censuses, the Black population of Port St. Lucie grew — 26,898 in 2010 and 37,970 in 2020, a change of +41.2%. The Black share of Port St. Lucie moved from 16.3% to 18.5% over the same span.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1 (race). Trend: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1.
The Record
Port St. Lucie stands in the gazetteer as one of the 955 places the Census Bureau counts in Florida. Port St. Lucie's Black population of 37,970 ranks 12 among them. The figures on this page are the published redistricting counts for Port St. Lucie as the Bureau bounds it, reproduced as released and cited to their table.
Institutions
In Port St. Lucie, a place of 204,851, institutions are carried close — the congregation, the school, the business on the main street. The federal counts record them as counts; this entry records Port St. Lucie itself, fixed by name, state, population, and share like every other entry in the book.