Morris, Minnesota.
Typical home $218,478 (+6.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$539 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,538 +6%
- $205,940$218,478 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,291 +19%
- $184,187$218,478 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$1,147
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Morris, MN rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Morris, Stevens County, Minnesota
Morris is a city of 5,105 people in Stevens County. Half its households earn more than $67,727 a year and half less, against $75,733 across Stevens County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% are rented. Unemployment in Stevens County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 west-central Minnesota, and a young one in character: the typical resident is younger than in most American towns, which fits a place with a university in it. Incomes run below the county's, and renting is about as common as owning, so many households here do not own the home they live in. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and getting to work takes very little time.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in farming, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The University of Minnesota Morris, Stevens Community Medical Center and Morris Area Public Schools are among the largest workplaces in town. Unemployment across Stevens County has edged up from a year ago, while the number of jobs has grown slightly.
Things to do. Wintermute Lake and Page Lake are both a short drive away, and the Morris Wetland Management District, a protected area, is close by as well. For a longer drive, Glacial Lakes State Park offers more room to roam. Winters here are long, cold and snowy, with January days that stay well below freezing, while July is warm and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
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- 2,130households
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 13 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stevens County had 5,774 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 19° and lows near 0°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 45 inches of snow and 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Morris West Cntrl Rsch & Outreach weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Morris
- University of Minnesota MorrisUniversities353
- Superior Industries 101 DivisionMine conveyors manufacturing267
- Stevens Community Medical CenterCritical access hospital177FTE
- Morris Area Public SchoolsSchool district140FTE
- Stevens CountyPersonnel offices, government110
- John Riley ConstructionRoad construction60
- Divine House MorrisAdult and child residential corporate foster care50
- SET EnvironmentalRemediation and clean up of contaminated buildings, mine sites, soil, or ground water27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,159 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Hailrelatively high in parts of MorrisRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively 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 moderate. 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 Stevens County.
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$218,478
- Minnesota$348,778
- 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 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Morris17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Morris8
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.