O Brien, Florida.
Typical home $307,347 (+2.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$956 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,166 +3%
- $299,181$307,347 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,558 +25%
- $245,789$307,347 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.
- O Brien$1,613
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in O Brien, FL rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in O Brien, Suwannee County, Florida
The Census does not count O Brien on its own, so the figures here are Suwannee County's. Half the county's households earn more than $56,658 a year and half less; 15% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 75% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Suwannee County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Suwannee County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. O'Brien is a small town in Suwannee County in north-central Florida, a region shaped by the Suwannee River and its springs. The typical resident is older than the typical American, and most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Incomes run lower than the country's, and more residents live in poverty than across the nation.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Unemployment is a little higher than it was a year earlier, and the county had slightly fewer jobs in the most recent full year. A smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Troy Spring State Park, a protected area, lies a short drive away. Ichetucknee Springs State Park, also a protected area, and Ginnie Springs, a park, are a longer drive away. The Ichetucknee River is another option for a longer drive.
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- 16,112households
- 42.3median age
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Suwannee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Suwannee County had 11,824 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 68° and lows near 41°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 56 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mayo weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Suwannee County
- PilgrimsPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing1,330
- Suwannee SchoolsSchool district752FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters471
- ACV Community ServicesAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities425
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters308
- Excelsior Care GroupSkilled nursing facilities200
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores172
- BinderholzWood chips made in sawmills140
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,912 people in all. 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Suwannee County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Suwannee County.
O Brien home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- O Brien$307,347
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 O Brien 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.
- O Brien19.55%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- O Brien20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a O Brien address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls O Brien — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.