Morrisonville, Illinois.
Typical home $159,807 (+3.9% in a year). Taylorville, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$460 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,969 +4%
- $153,838$159,807 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,567 +40%
- $114,240$159,807 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.
- Morrisonville$839
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Morrisonville, IL rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Morrisonville, Christian County, Illinois
Morrisonville is a village of 997 people in Christian County. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in Christian County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Christian County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Morrisonville is a small village in Christian County, Illinois, where residents are older than in most American places and nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Incomes in the county run below the typical American household's, and a fair number of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn warm, with a good amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in government. The commute is a typical one, and very few people work from home. Across Christian County, the largest workplaces include GSI, a farm machinery and equipment manufacturer, the Taylorville Correctional Center and Taylorville Memorial Hospital.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lake Taylorville and Sangchris Lake State Recreation Area are both reservoir and protected-area settings a longer drive away. Those who like history can visit the Lincoln Home National Historic Site, a museum, also a longer drive away.
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- 431households
- 17%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Christian County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Christian County had 9,275 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 16 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Morrisonville weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Christian County
- GSI : AssumptionFarm machinery and equipment manufacturing397
- Illinois Department of Corrections - Taylorville Correctional CenterCorrectional institutions307
- Taylorville CUSD 3School district305FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters282
- Taylorville Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital257FTE
- The GSI GroupFarm machinery and equipment manufacturing250
- Pana CUSD 8School district218FTE
- Lincoln Healthcare GroupNursing care facilities151
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 32 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,433 people in all across the county; Morrisonville has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Morrisonville’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Christian County and the Taylorville, IL metro.
Morrisonville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Morrisonville$159,807
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Morrisonville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Morrisonville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.