Jennings, Florida.
Typical home $245,827 (+5.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$814 (+171%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,121 +5%
- $233,706$245,827 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $70,772 +40%
- $175,054$245,827 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Jennings$1,290
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Jennings, FL rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jennings, Hamilton County, Florida
Jennings is a town of 749 people in Hamilton County. Unemployment in Hamilton County was 6.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hamilton County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Jennings is a very small town in Hamilton County, in the north of Florida, with a young population: the typical resident is younger than in most of the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and homes are valued well above what the county's modest incomes might suggest. Winters are mild with little or no snow, summers are hot, and the rainfall is generous through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Hamilton County, the largest workplaces include Hamilton Schools, Suwannee Valley Nursing Center and Swift Straw Jasper. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the number of jobs has grown slightly, and the typical commute is a long one.
Things to do. The Alapahoochee River runs in or beside town, and the Withlacoochee River and Lot Pond, a lake, are a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Suwannee River State Park, a protected area along one of the region's best known rivers. For something livelier, Wild Adventures, an amusement park, is also a longer drive away.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 40 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Hamilton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hamilton County had 3,165 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 63° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 53 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jasper weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hamilton County
- Hamilton SchoolsSchool district236FTE
- Suwannee Valley Nursing CenterSkilled nursing facilities60
- Swift Straw JasperNovelties, not specified elsewhere, manufacturing30
- Preferred Rental CompanyFleet leasing, passenger vehicle21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 111 people in all across the county; Jennings has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesVery high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jennings’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Hamilton County.
Jennings home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jennings$245,827
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Jennings listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Jennings18.30%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Jennings25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Jennings address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jennings — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.