Morris, Alabama.
Typical home $260,191 (+2.0% in a year). Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$714 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,978 +2%
- $255,213$260,191 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,032 +21%
- $214,159$260,191 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.
- Morris$1,366
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Morris, AL rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Morris, Jefferson County, Alabama
Morris is a city of 2,259 people in Jefferson County. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Morris is a small city in Jefferson County, Alabama, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own, a much higher share than across the county as a whole. Poverty is lower here than in many places, and a four-year degree is held by a fair number of adults. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month and only a dusting of snow in a typical year. Summers are hot, with July the warmest month, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in professional and business services. Across Jefferson County, some of the largest workplaces are University of Alabama Hospital, Children's Hospital of Alabama and Brasfield & Gorrie, a construction firm. Most people drive some distance to their jobs, and a small number work from home.
Things to do. Rickwood Caverns State Park, a protected area with caves to tour, is a short drive away. A longer drive leads to the Birmingham Museum of Art and Birmingham Zoo, and to Barber Motorsports Park, a race track. The Cahaba River, also a longer drive, is a place for time outdoors.
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- 1,022households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 368,875 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 1 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pinson weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson County
- University of Alabama HospitalGeneral hospital11,411FTE
- UA Health Services FoundationCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient5,637
- THE Children's Hospital of AlabamaChildren's hospital4,552FTE
- Brasfield & Gorrie Corporate OfficeCommercial building construction4,447
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,660
- Jefferson County SchoolsSchool district3,404FTE
- Southern Foodservice ManagementCafeteria food services contractors2,670
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs2,665
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 623 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 101,368 people in all across the county; Morris has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Morris’ 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 Jefferson County and the Birmingham-Hoover, AL metro.
Morris home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Morris$260,191
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Morris 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.
- Morris17.04%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Morris32
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Morris9
Zip codes with a Morris address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Morris — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.