St. Cloud → Port St. Lucie
Relocation analysis based on 7 federal data sources
Should you move?
Moving from St. Cloud to Port St. Lucie is unfavorable: BEA regional price parity goes from 87.6 to 100.2 (US = 100), and HUD 2-bedroom rent rises by $551/mo.
- -$10,658
- BLS median salary lower in Port St. Lucie
- 259 to 210
- violent crimes per 100K (FBI UCR, state-level)
- 15.8:1 to 17.8:1
- NCES student-teacher ratio
- $1,217
- 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.
Cons of Moving
- - 13% higher cost of living
- - $551/mo more expensive rent (2BR)
- - $11K lower median salary
- - Higher student-teacher ratios
- - More environmental violations
Purchasing power tightens: BEA RPP rises from 87.6 to 100.2, so the same paycheck buys less in Port St. Lucie (ratio 1.14). HUD 2BR Fair Market Rent rises $551/mo ($6,612/yr) from $1,206 in St. Cloud to $1,757 in Port St. Lucie.
St. Cloud still leads on 5 of 7 federal dimensions, the origin keeps the edge. Port St. Lucie sits #306 of 387 metros on PlainRelocate livability (bottom third of the corpus). St. Cloud is #40/387 on the same ranking. Composite verdict: Unfavorable. Override it with the dimension table below.
BLS OEWS median salary moves $10,658 lower ($72,671 → $62,013). Labor-market size: 96,960 tracked jobs at origin vs 160,790 at destination.
State retirement friendliness favors the destination: Florida scores 62 (C, #23/51) vs Minnesota at 49 (F, #43/51). 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
- 60
- Property tax
- 62
- Estate tax
- 50
- Healthcare
- 34
- 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