Housing in Morris

A typical Morris home is worth roughly $178,000

Home prices around Morris have risen about 57% over the past 5 years.

Typical home value

$178K

▲ 2.8% in a year · MO $268K

Estimate

2-bedroom rent

$970

a month, utilities in · HUD

Median tax bill

$547

MO $1,948

What kind of housing town is Morris?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

Your money goes further34% below the Missouri typical home.

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 3.2 years of income

Less than across Missouri (3.8 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about

$238,000

Typical Morris home $178K

That covers a typical Morris home, with $60K to spare.

The typical home, each month

$980

Loan $880Tax $50Insurance $50

A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $10 less than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

Piney$124K Clinton$235K Cass$158K Burdine$169K

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Morris’s typical property tax (0.31% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Price trend

Home prices up 57% in 5 years

The federal house price index for the ZIP codes around Morris rose 57% over the past 5 years, faster than across Missouri (51%). Last year prices rose 2.8%.

Morris areaMissouri

+2.8%

past year

+57%

past 5 years

+77%

past 10 years

Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Morris, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $970

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$680

1 bedroom$750

2 bedrooms$970

3 bedrooms$1,310

4 bedrooms$1,570

15%

of households rent · MO 32%

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Douglas County, MO): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

The homes

85% of Morris households own their home

Half of Morris’s homes were built before 1966.

Owners and renters

Own 85%Rent 15%

Missouri: 68% own.

1966

typical home built · MO 1978

$547

median property tax bill · MO $1,948

0.31%

of a home’s value, a year in tax · MO 0.85%

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Next door

Morris vs. its neighbors

Morris is the 2nd priciest of 5 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Clinton$235K Morris$178K Burdine$169K Cass$158K Piney$124K

Compare more

Town	Typical value	1-yr change	2-bed rent	Median income
Morris	$178K*	+2.8%†	$970	$55,662
Piney	$124K*	—	$940	$47,462
Clinton	$235K*	−1%†	$1,040	$64,861
Cass	$158K*	—	$920	$37,434
Burdine	$169K*	+5.1%†	$930	$40,121

Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Price trend: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.