Morrison, Illinois.
Typical home $172,379 (+2.6% in a year). Sterling, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$450 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,431 +3%
- $167,947$172,379 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,026 +30%
- $132,353$172,379 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.
- Morrison$905
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Morrison, IL rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Morrison, Whiteside County, Illinois
Morrison is a city of 4,085 people in Whiteside County. Half its households earn more than $69,089 a year and half less, against $67,500 across Whiteside County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Whiteside County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 4.3% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Morrison is a small city in Whiteside County, Illinois, where most people own the homes they live in and incomes run a little above the county's. The population is a bit older than the national picture, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Winters are cold, with plenty of snow, and summers are warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with retail, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing a good share. Morrison Community Hospital, Resthave Home of Whiteside County and Morrison CUSD 6 are among the largest workplaces in town. Commutes are short, and only a few people work from home.
Things to do. Morrison-Rockwood State Park and Lake Carlton are both in or beside town, offering a protected area and a lake close to home. Prophetstown State Recreation Area is a short drive away, and White Pines Forest State Park is a longer drive for those who want a day trip into more woodland.
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- 1,425households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Whiteside County had 20,285 jobs in 2025, 4.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 32 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Morrison weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Morrison
- Morrison Community HospitalHospitals, general medical and surgical287
- Resthave Home of Whiteside CountySkilled nursing facilities150
- Morrison CUSD 6School district132FTE
- Sullivan's Morrison55
- American Piping GroupAddition, alteration and renovation, general contractors, industrial building32
- CGH Medical CenterFamily physicians' offices23
- Kunes Auto Group of MorrisonAutomobile dealers, new only or new and used23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 570 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Morrison’s 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 Whiteside County and the Sterling, IL metro.
Morrison home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Morrison$172,379
- Illinois$295,943
- 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 Morrison 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.
- Morrison32.28%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Morrison23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Morrison8
Zip codes with a Morrison address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Morrison — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.