Home age in ZIP 34953, Port St. Lucie, FL: median built 2003

Home age is not roof age, and the Census does not record replacements. ZIP 34953 in Port St. Lucie, FL: median home built 2003; 37.9% of homes (10,651) are older than 25 years and 18% (5,071) were built since 2010, out of 28,131 homes.

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2019 to 2023 (5-year estimates), retrieved October 9, 2026. Area = Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area 34953.

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Share of homes in ZIP 34953 by decade builtColumns from the pre-1940 decade on the left to 2020 and later on the right. pre-1940 0 percent; 1940s 0 percent; 1950s 0.2 percent; 1960s 0.5 percent; 1970s 2.8 percent; 1980s 17.8 percent; 1990s 16.6 percent; 2000s 44.1 percent; 2010s 14.2 percent; 2020+ 3.8 percentpre-1940: 12 homes, 0.0%0%pre-1940St. Lucie County: 0.9%1940s: 0 homes, 0.0%0%1940sSt. Lucie County: 1.1%1950s: 63 homes, 0.2%0.2%1950sSt. Lucie County: 3.4%1960s: 148 homes, 0.5%0.5%1960sSt. Lucie County: 4.0%1970s: 775 homes, 2.8%2.8%1970sSt. Lucie County: 11.5%1980s: 4,994 homes, 17.8%17.8%1980sSt. Lucie County: 23.2%1990s: 4,659 homes, 16.6%16.6%1990sSt. Lucie County: 15.5%2000s: 12,409 homes, 44.1%44.1%2000sSt. Lucie County: 26.8%2010s: 4,004 homes, 14.2%14.2%2010sSt. Lucie County: 10.1%2020+: 1,067 homes, 3.8%3.8%2020+St. Lucie County: 3.5%Built 1999 or earlier: 37.9% of homes (10,651)ZIP 34953, built before 2000built 2000 or laterSt. Lucie County

Share of the 28,131 housing units in the ZIP, by decade built. The red marks are St. Lucie County. This counts houses, not roofs: a roof is replaced several times in the life of a house, and no federal survey records when.

ZIP 34953 next to Port St. Lucie and St. Lucie County

IndicatorZIP 34953Port St. LucieSt. Lucie CountyRank among 5 ZIPs of Port St. Lucie on this site
Housing units28,13186,398154,9301st of 5 largest
Median year built2003200119944th of 5 oldest
Built before 19803.5%9.4%20.9%
Built before 200037.9%no data59.6%4th of 5 highest share
Built since 201018%no data13.6%
Owner-occupied homes85.4%83.2%77.7%3rd of 5 highest share
Single-family units97%89.8%no data
Median home value$326,800 (+/- $10,932)$327,700$305,8002nd of 5 highest
Median household income$81,028 (+/- $4,874)$78,137no data2nd of 5 highest

City figures are for the Census place, county figures for the county; “no data” means the Census file does not publish that figure. Value and income are survey estimates, the plus-or-minus is the 90% margin of error.

Every decade in ZIP 34953

BuiltShare of St. Lucie CountyShare of ZIPHomes in ZIP 34953
2020+3.5%3.8%1,067
2010s10.1%14.2%4,004
2000s26.8%44.1%12,409
1990s15.5%16.6%4,659
1980s23.2%17.8%4,994
1970s11.5%2.8%775
1960s4.0%0.5%148
1950s3.4%0.2%63
1940s1.1%0.0%0
pre-19400.9%0.0%12

Counts are Census estimates of housing units by year built (table B25034). If a roof had never been replaced, it would be 3 to 6 years old on a house from the 2020s, 17 to 26 on one from the 2000s, 37 to 46 on one from the 1980s and 87 or more on one from before 1940. Most older houses have had at least one replacement, and the Census does not record when.

What the numbers say about ZIP 34953

ZIP 34953 has 28,131 housing units: 10,651 (37.9%) were built before 2000, 5,071 (18%) in 2010 or later, and 12,409 (44.1%) in the 2000s, its largest era. The median year built is 2003 (Port St. Lucie: 2001), so 2 years newer than the city.

Housing mix and money, from the same survey: 85.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied; 97% of units are single-family houses; the median owner-occupied home is valued at $326,800, give or take $10,932; median household income is $81,028, give or take $4,874; the ZIP holds 32.6% of the housing units the Census counts in Port St. Lucie, 28,131 of them. These are survey estimates with margins of error, and for a small ZIP the margin can be wide.

Reading this for roofs, carefully: the Census records when a house was built, never when its roof was last replaced. If every roof were still the one installed with its house, 5,992 units (21.3%, built before 1990) would be past the 30-year top of the usual asphalt-shingle range, 4,659 (16.6%, the 1990s) would mostly sit past it, 12,409 (44.1%, the 2000s) would mostly be inside the 20 to 30 year window and 5,071 (18%, 2010 onward) would be younger than it. Most older roofs have been replaced, so treat these as the pool of houses where an old roof is possible, not as a count of old roofs.

Roof age calculator for ZIP 34953

Enter the year your house was built, and the year the roof was last replaced if you know it. It starts at the median year built for this ZIP. The share of neighbours’ homes older than yours comes from this ZIP’s own decade counts.

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–of homes in ZIP 34953 are older
–vs. the ZIP median year built

Material ranges are general planning figures (the same ones as on our roof-age page), not warranties. Sun, storms, attic ventilation and installation quality move them. The decade shares assume homes were built evenly within each decade. This is not an inspection: a roofer on the roof decides.

Map: ZIP 34953 among Port St. Lucie’s ZIP areas

Map of ZIP 34953 and nearby ZIP areas, shaded by the share of homes built before 2000ZIP 34952: 21,844 homes, 75.3% built before 2000, median year 198934952ZIP 34983: 17,799 homes, 61.9% built before 2000, median year 199034983ZIP 34986: 14,600 homes, 28.3% built before 2000, median year 200434986ZIP 34984: 7,254 homes, 56.5% built before 2000, median year 199734984ZIP 34953: 28,131 homes, 37.9% built before 2000, median year 200334953
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  • Dot size = housing units. Red ring = ZIP 34953. Click a dot to open that ZIP.

Closest ZIP areas

ZIPMilesMedian builtPre-2000
349843.2 E199756.5%
349835.5 N199061.9%
349865.5 N200428.3%
349526.2 NE198975.3%

Distance is between Census ZIP centres.

Storm backdrop: St. Lucie County

A ZIP is too small for its own hail record, so this is the county. FEMA’s National Risk Index rates St. Lucie County Relatively High overall (96.1 of 100), Very Low for hail (29.1), Relatively High for strong wind (90.0) and Relatively Moderate for tornado (82.8). NOAA logged 26 hail reports in the county, on 11 days with hail of 1 inch or more in the full years 2014 to 2025.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 version, county level. This product uses FEMA’s National Risk Index data but is not endorsed by FEMA.

Where to go from here

Other roofing cities near ZIP 34953: Palm Bay, FL (54 miles), Melbourne, FL (59 miles), Fort Myers, FL (101 miles).

Questions

How old are the homes in ZIP 34953?

Of the 28,131 housing units, 998 (3.5%) were built before 1980, 10,651 (37.9%) before 2000 and 5,071 (18%) from 2010 on (Census ACS 2019 to 2023, survey estimate).

Does a house's age tell me how old its roof is in 34953?

No. ACS records the year the structure was built, not the year the roof was last replaced. With 998 units built before 1980 in this ZIP, many roofs are replacements rather than originals. Ask the seller for permit records or have a roofer inspect the roof.

Which nearby ZIP has the oldest housing?

Of the 4 closest ZIP areas we cover, 34952 (6.2 miles NE) has the largest share built before 2000, 75.3%, against 37.9% in 34953.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates 2019 to 2023, tables B25034 (year structure built), B25035, B25003, B25024, B25077 and B19013, ZIP Code Tabulation Areas; ZIP-to-city assignment from the Census 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file (a ZIP is assigned to a city when more than half of its land area lies inside it). A ZCTA is not a USPS ZIP code: it approximates one and can differ at the edges. Public domain. The 12 ZIP-specific figures above differ from ZIP to ZIP.

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