Morrisville, New York.
Typical home $244,450 (+6.3% in a year). Syracuse, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$790 (+160%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,442 +6%
- $230,009$244,450 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,490 +48%
- $164,960$244,450 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.
- Morrisville$1,283
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Morrisville, NY rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Morrisville, Madison County, New York
Morrisville is a village of 1,633 people in Madison County. Unemployment in Madison County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Madison 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Morrisville is a small village in Madison County, and it is a young place, with a much lower median age than most towns, which fits a village built around a college campus. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree here than you might guess from the student presence, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is typical. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July is pleasantly warm, and the year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Some of the largest workplaces across Madison County are Colgate University, Oneida Health and SUNY Morrisville. A modest share of residents work from home. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than it was a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. For time on the water, Lebanon Reservoir and Lake Moraine are both a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Oneida Lake, one of the best known lakes in the area, and to Chittenango Falls State Park, a protected area for walking and enjoying the outdoors.
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- 22%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 9%work from home
What people in Madison County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 20,808 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 57°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Morrisville Southwest weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Madison County
- Colgate UniversityUniversity or college1,120
- Oneida HealthGeneral hospital779FTE
- SUNY MorrisvilleUniversity or college515
- Chittenango Central School DistrictSchool district389FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters351
- Oneida City School DistrictSchool district350FTE
- Knowles CazenoviaMicrowave components manufacturing297
- HP Hood LLC - Oneida PlantMilk, ultra-high temperature, manufacturing261
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 40 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,490 people in all across the county; Morrisville has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Morrisville’s 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 Madison County and the Syracuse, NY metro.
Morrisville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Morrisville$244,450
- New York$524,942
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Morrisville6
Zip codes with a Morrisville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Morrisville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.