Mount Morris, Illinois.
Typical home $157,744 (+4.9% in a year). Rochelle, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$470 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,321 +5%
- $150,423$157,744 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,372 +32%
- $119,371$157,744 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.
- Mount Morris$828
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Mount Morris, IL rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Morris, Ogle County, Illinois
Mount Morris is a village of 2,861 people in Ogle County. Unemployment in Ogle County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 3.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ogle County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mount Morris is a small village in Ogle County, in northern Illinois, small enough that neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here are modestly priced, and the county's household incomes are comfortable. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm and not extreme, with steady rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail, and transport and warehousing also employing many. Across Ogle County, some of the largest workplaces are Rochelle Foods, a bacon maker, Constellation, a nuclear power generator, and Rochelle Community Hospital. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many places, and few work from home. County unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Several state parks are a short drive away, including White Pines Forest State Park and Lowden State Park, both protected natural areas good for walking and time outdoors. Chana School, a small museum, is also a short drive from town. For a longer outing, the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home is a longer drive away.
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- 1,332households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 5%work from home
What people in Ogle County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ogle County had 14,427 jobs in 2025, 3.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Polo 5NW weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ogle County
- Rochelle FoodsBacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses815
- ConstellationElectric power generation, nuclear715
- E D Etnyre & CoConstruction machinery manufacturing450
- Wheatland Tube Western TubeTube made from purchased iron or steel383
- Rochelle Community HospitalCritical access hospital347FTE
- Meridian CUSD 223School district286FTE
- Byron CUSD 226School district268FTE
- Del MonteLabeling services262
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,025 people in all across the county; Mount Morris has two of its own. 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
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mount 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 Ogle County and the Rochelle, IL metro.
Mount Morris home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Morris$157,744
- 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.
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.
- Mount Morris9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mount Morris5
Zip codes with a Mount Morris address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Morris — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.