Morriston, Florida.
Typical home $455,119 (+2.9% in a year). Gainesville, FL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,507 (+171%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,655 +3%
- $442,464$455,119 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $121,209 +36%
- $333,910$455,119 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.
- Morriston$2,389
- Florida$1,970
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Morriston, FL rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Morriston, Levy County, Florida
Morriston, in Levy County, had 165 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Levy County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Levy 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Morriston is a very small community in Levy County, Florida, home to far fewer people than most towns. Homes here are valued well above what the county's modest incomes would suggest, and winters are mild, with cool nights in January and hot summers that peak in July. Rain and storms bring a good deal of water through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Levy County, unemployment is a little higher than a year ago, and there are slightly fewer jobs than there were the year before. Among the county's largest workplaces are Levy Schools, Walmart and Seabring Marine Industries Corporate.
Things to do. A short drive away, Devil's Den is an archaeological site, Lake Stafford is a lake, and Goethe State Forest is a protected area for walking and time outdoors. For a longer outing, Rainbow Springs State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Florida Museum of Natural History is a museum, also a longer drive away.
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What people in Levy County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Levy County had 9,070 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 71° and lows near 46°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ocala weather station, 23 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Levy County
- Levy SchoolsSchool district781FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters358
- Seabring Marine Industries CorporateBoats manufacturing309
- Williston Nursing and RehabSkilled nursing facilities144
- Whistling DuckSolar power structure construction128
- Central Florida Electric CooperativeDistribution of electric power111
- Alliance DairiesMilk production, dairy cattle105
- Moss & AssociatesSolar power structure construction87
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,788 people in all across the county; Morriston has none of its own. 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
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Morriston’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 Levy County and the Gainesville, FL metro.
Morriston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Morriston$455,119
- Florida$375,361
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Morriston 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.
- Morriston18.29%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Morriston33
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Morriston5
Zip codes with a Morriston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Morriston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.