Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura → Port St. Lucie
Relocation analysis based on 7 federal data sources
Should you move?
Moving from Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura to Port St. Lucie is strongly favorable: BEA regional price parity goes from 110.5 to 100.2 (US = 100), and HUD 2-bedroom rent falls by $936/mo.
- -$13,067
- BLS median salary lower in Port St. Lucie
- 477 to 210
- violent crimes per 100K (FBI UCR, state-level)
- 21.5:1 to 17.8:1
- NCES student-teacher ratio
- $7,415
- DOL infant care lower / yr in Port St. Lucie
BEA Regional Price Parity, HUD Fair Market Rent, BLS OEWS, FBI UCR, NCES, and DOL. The table below lets you override the composite with your own priorities.
Pros of Moving
- + 10% lower cost of living
- + $936/mo cheaper rent (2BR)
- + Lower violent crime rate
- + Better student-teacher ratios
- + More affordable childcare
- + Fewer environmental violations
Cons of Moving
- - $13K lower median salary
Purchasing power opens up: BEA RPP falls from 110.5 to 100.2, so each dollar covers more in Port St. Lucie (ratio 0.91). HUD 2BR Fair Market Rent drops $936/mo ($11,232/yr) from $2,693 in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura to $1,757 in Port St. Lucie.
Port St. Lucie leads on 6 of 7 federal dimensions, a destination-heavy ledger. Port St. Lucie sits #306 of 387 metros on PlainRelocate livability (bottom third of the corpus). Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura is #384/387 on the same ranking. Composite verdict: Strongly Favorable. Override it with the dimension table below.
BLS OEWS median salary moves $13,067 lower ($75,080 → $62,013). Labor-market size: 310,050 tracked jobs at origin vs 160,790 at destination.
State retirement friendliness favors the destination: Florida scores 62 (C, #23/51) vs California at 40 (F, #50/51). Full state tax and healthcare sub-scores sit in the retirement desk below.
State retirement friendliness
Primary-state scores from PlainRelocate's retirement registry (tax + healthcare + climate composite). Metro pairs use each metro's primary state abbreviation.
- Income tax
- 70
- Property tax
- 72
- Estate tax
- 100
- Healthcare
- 4
- Income tax
- 100
- Property tax
- 67
- Estate tax
- 100
- Healthcare
- 12
Full retirement ranking · Source composite documented on methodology (Tax Foundation + AARP tax guides + federal healthcare/climate inputs).
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Port St. Lucie metro profile · Livability rankings · Methodology
Source: BEA Regional Price Parities, HUD Fair Market Rents, BLS OES, FBI UCR, NCES, DOL, EPA; retirement desk: Tax Foundation + AARP tax guides June 2026