Suwanee, Georgia.
Typical home $589,037 (-2.6% in a year), asking rent $1,952 (+1.2%). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,765 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $15,839 -3%
- $604,876$589,037 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $135,789 +30%
- $453,248$589,037 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.
- Suwanee$3,092
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Suwanee, GA fell 2.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Suwanee, GA rose 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Suwanee runs $2,237/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,509 in Jan 2025.
That is $4,188 a month against $1,952 rent: a $3,092 mortgage payment, plus $466 property tax and $631 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Suwanee
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$4,188
- Renting$1,952
- Mortgage only$3,092
Property tax · $466/mo 0.95% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Gwinnett County, GA
Insurance & upkeep · $631/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Suwanee, Gwinnett County, Georgia
Suwanee is a city of 20,786 people in Gwinnett County. Half its households earn more than $103,260 a year and half less, against $87,890 across Gwinnett County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 59% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 41% are rented. Unemployment in Gwinnett County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 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. Suwanee is a city in Gwinnett County with a population that skews somewhat younger than many towns its size. Household incomes run above the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners, though there are renters too. Typical home values and rents are high, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and rarely snowy, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in manufacturing. Unemployment in the county is low, and the number of jobs there has edged up over the past year. Among the biggest workplaces in Suwanee are Walmart, Publix Super Markets and Southeastern Freight Lines. The typical commute is fairly long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. George Pierce Park is in or beside town, a convenient place for a walk or some time outdoors. A longer drive away is Lake Lanier, a large reservoir, and Zoo Atlanta, a zoo. The High Museum of Art, also a longer drive away, is one of the museums in the Atlanta area.
Report a mistake
- 8,410households
- 62%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 26%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gwinnett County had 390,169 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 67°. About 1 inches of snow and 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cumming 2N weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Suwanee
- Staci AmericasAutomobile dead storage1,295
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters337
- Southeastern Freight LinesTrucking330
- BrickyardNursing care facility286
- S&A IndustrialMausoleum construction225
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores179
- Annandale VillageNursing homes174
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter139
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,904 people in all. 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of SuwaneeRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Suwanee’s census tracts, 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 Gwinnett County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
Suwanee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Suwanee$589,037
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Suwanee listings, and the typical home goes pending in 53 days — 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.
- Suwanee34.34%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Suwanee53
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Suwanee401
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Suwanee82
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Suwanee$584,910
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Suwanee97.93%
Zip codes with a Suwanee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Suwanee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.