Our home base
Port St. Lucie is our home base. We drive to you for lockouts, rekeys, smart locks and car keys from Sandpiper Bay to Riverland, and the full price is settled on the phone before we head your way.
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Quick answer
Tradition Locksmith covers all of Port St. Lucie, Florida, and the city is where our van starts every day. We open locked houses, cars and offices, rekey and replace locks, install keypads and smart locks, and program car keys in ZIP codes 34952, 34953 and 34983 to 34988. Hours are Sunday to Thursday 7am to 11pm and Friday 7am to 5pm.
When you call a locksmith in Port St. Lucie, the year your house was built tells us a lot before we ever see your door. This city grew fast. It had 204,851 people at the 2020 census, and the Census Bureau put it at about 268,062 by July 2025. From July 2024 to July 2025 it grew 3.5 percent, the fastest rate of any U.S. city with at least 250,000 people.
Half the homes in Port St. Lucie were built in 2002 or later, according to Census survey data. More than a third of the city’s homes went up between 2000 and 2009, and about one in five has gone up since 2010. Fewer than one in ten was built before 1980.
So our days swing between two kinds of houses. On the older east side, on the streets General Development Corporation laid out, locks are older, keys are copies of copies, and doors have lived through a few hurricanes. Out west, in places like Tradition, Riverland and PGA Village Verano, the houses are new, the locks are builder grade, and owners rarely know who else has a key.
Local knowledge
Port St. Lucie started as a planned city. General Development Corporation bought land along the North Fork of the St. Lucie River in 1958 and opened its first bridge over the river in 1959. About 250 homes were there in early 1961, and the city incorporated on April 27 of that year. The city began in what is now Sandpiper Bay, and some of its first small homes still stand on SE Pruitt Road and SE Morningside Boulevard. GDC planned a city of about 80 square miles, and its single-family lots kept filling in for decades. Census data shows the 1980s alone added more homes here than the 1960s and 1970s put together.
The second wave went west. Core Communities took on St. Lucie West in the early 1990s and later Tradition, a community of about 8,200 acres west of the I-95 interchange at Gatlin Boulevard and Tradition Parkway. More recently, GL Homes has been building Riverland, a 4,000-acre community for active adults, and Kolter has built PGA Village Verano, a gated golf community. Wylder, between Midway Road and Glades Cut-Off Road, is planned for about 3,400 homesites. In ZIP 34987, which takes in much of the new west side, about four in ten homes were built in 2020 or later.
We are based in Port St. Lucie, so we are never far. From the City Hall area on Port St. Lucie Boulevard, Tradition is about 7 miles, the St. Lucie West neighborhoods run 5 to 7, and unincorporated River Park is about 5 miles north, off Prima Vista Boulevard.
From the older sections to the new builds, we know these locks.
What we do here
Every service below is mobile. We bring the tools and parts to your door, driveway or parking lot in Port St. Lucie.
Locked out of a house, car or business. Damage-free entry first, proof of ownership every time.
Deadbolts, knobs, sliders and storm doors fitted and repaired at your home.
New pins so old keys stop working, or new hardware when the lock is worn out.
Keypad and Wi-Fi deadbolts fitted, aligned and set up with your codes.
Remote head keys, flip keys and push to start fobs, programmed on site.
Storefront and office locks, closers, panic bars and staff change rekeys.
Master key systems, keypads and fob readers for offices and rentals.
Most of our driving happens on these corridors, and each has its usual calls.
The city’s stretch runs from the Martin County line up to Midway Road and is mostly strip malls and shopping centers. Storefront lockouts, glass door locks and rekeys when a shop changes hands are common here.
SR 716 runs from US 1 to the Turnpike and crosses the North Fork near Sandpiper Bay, where the city began. Homes on both sides bring steady lockout and rekey calls.
They meet I-95 at exit 118 and lead into Tradition and the Cleveland Clinic Martin Health campus in the Tradition Center for Innovation. Expect new-home rekeys and parking lot car lockouts.
Exit 121 off I-95, with hotels, restaurants, a movie theater and office suites near the ramp, and Clover Park a short drive north. Condo lockouts and office calls are common.
The newest crossing of the North Fork, opened all the way to US 1 in 2019. Along with Prima Vista Boulevard and Port St. Lucie Boulevard, it is how we get between the west side and the river neighborhoods.
I-95 exit 114 and Turnpike exit 138 at the south end of the city. Village Parkway runs north from here through Southern Grove, a jobs corridor that has drawn Amazon, Costco and FedEx. Warehouses and offices like these are where keypad entry and master key systems pay off.
Yes, and the sooner the better. A new house is not new to its locks. Keys pass through the builder, the trades, the walk-through and the closing, and builder locks are usually keyed alike across the house. Handy, but you cannot know who else holds that key.
Rekeying fixes it without tossing good hardware. We swap the pin stacks in each lock so one new key runs every door and the builder’s keys go dead. A keypad or smart deadbolt for the front door can go in on the same visit, with the other doors keyed to match. Our pages on rekeying and lock changes and smart lock installation explain both.
Call and we will quote the total before we drive out. Sun to Thu 7am to 11pm, Fri 7am to 5pm.
Our name is Tradition Locksmith, and Tradition is also the big community off Tradition Parkway. We are an independent mobile locksmith with no tie to the Tradition development, its builders or its HOAs. Tradition is simply one of many neighborhoods on our route.
Port St. Lucie took direct hits from Hurricane Frances and Hurricane Jeanne in 2004 and Hurricane Wilma in 2005. Census data shows more than 25,000 of the city’s homes were built before 1990, so a lot of houses on the east side, in ZIP codes like 34952 and 34983 where the median home dates to around 1990, stood through all three. Doors that lived through that, plus years of summer heat, often shift a little. The deadbolt starts to drag, or it only locks if you push or lift the door.
First we check whether the trouble is the lock or the door. Moving a strike plate often fixes a dragging bolt for far less than a new lock. If the cylinder itself is worn, a rekey with fresh keys usually brings it back. If it is cracked, rusted inside or missing parts, we show you why it should be replaced and quote it before we touch it.
Here are typical ranges for the city’s most common lock calls. Your exact total is quoted on the phone before we drive out.
| Job | Typical range | What is included |
|---|---|---|
| House lockout | $90 to $150 | After we confirm you live there |
| Car lockout | $75 to $140 | Most makes, not German brands |
| Rekey, first lock | $95 to $150 | Service call included |
| Each added lock | $25 to $50 | Keyed to match the first |
| Smart lock or keypad install | $125 to $225 | Install, setup and testing |
| Transponder car key | $150 to $275 | Cut and programmed at your car |
Ranges only, not a quote. Your exact total is quoted on the phone before we drive out, and nothing gets added at the door. Our pricing page has the full list.
Tell us what is locked or broken, the address, and the lock brand or car if you know it.
You get the complete price while we are still on the phone. No surprise fees at the door.
A technician arrives in a marked van and shows you ID.
We ask for proof that you own or live at the home, or own the car, before we open anything.
Damage-free methods come first. If more work is needed, we walk you through the choices before doing any of it.
FAQ
No. We took the name from the area we work in, but there is no business tie. We are an independent mobile locksmith, and we take no orders from the developer, the builders or any Tradition HOA. You hire us yourself for your own home, and we treat a Tradition address the same as any other street in the city.
Every one of them: 34952, 34953 and 34983 through 34988. That covers the older east side along US 1, St. Lucie West, Tradition, Riverland, PGA Village Verano and the newer areas toward Midway Road. We also go to unincorporated neighborhoods with Port St. Lucie mailing addresses, such as River Park.
We recommend it. While a house is being built and sold, its keys can pass through the builder, subcontractors and the sales team, and you cannot know how many copies exist. Rekeying makes every one of those keys useless while you keep the new hardware. It usually costs less than buying new locks.
For most makes and models, yes. A new transponder key, remote head key or smart key gets cut and programmed right at your car once you show the title or registration and your ID. German brands are the exception: BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Volkswagen, Porsche and Mini. Check your vehicle first with our car key finder.
Sunday through Thursday we work from 7am until 11pm. Friday we work 7am to 5pm, and we are closed on Saturday. Locked out late on a weeknight? Call before 11pm, and you will hear the price and our arrival time on the same call.
A wireless keypad outside the big garage door is part of the garage door opener, and the opener maker or a garage door company handles those. Our part is the house door inside the garage. We rekey it, add a deadbolt to it, or fit a keypad deadbolt there, which gets you in by code when your keys are sitting on the counter.
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Tell us what happened and where you are in Port St. Lucie. You get the total price on the phone before anyone drives out.
