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Place dossier plate
SheetMI-MOUNT-MORRIS-MI · Mount Morris, MI 3,130 pop · income 11th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Mount Morris
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Mount Morris on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Louisburg · lowest
31,827
Louisburg · lowest
31,827 median HH income
31.5% of the leader · rank #1
Combes · near
42,880
Combes · near
42,880 median HH income
42.4% of the leader · rank #2
Statesboro · near
42,884
Statesboro · near
42,884 median HH income
42.4% of the leader · rank #3
Lorenzo · near
42,885
Lorenzo · near
42,885 median HH income
42.4% of the leader · rank #4
Mount Morris · this city
42,886
Mount Morris · this city
42,886 median HH income
42.4% of the leader · rank #5
Port Henry · near
42,895
Port Henry · near
42,895 median HH income
42.4% of the leader · rank #6
Chenango Brid… · highest
101,111
Chenango Brid… · highest
101,111 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Mount Morris on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 3,130.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Mount Morris - the verdict
Mount Morris ranks in the 11th percentile for household income and the 6th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
11th
percentile, household income
3rd
percentile, home value
32nd
percentile, median rent
6th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Mount Morris, MI
Mount Morris is a small town in Michigan, home to 3,130 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Mount Morris brings in $42,886 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 21.7%. Mount Morris's housing stock carries a median value of $79,500, and the median resident age is 32.8 years. About 5.2% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 45.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 7 residential building permits were authorized in Mount Morris (Low Activity), per Census BPS data. Mount Morris's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 4301.1 incidents per 100,000 residents, above the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Michigan run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Michigan scores 96.2 (Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,113 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Michigan's average monthly utility costs around $238 (state average). Natural-hazard exposure scores 49.6 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Mount Morris's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from housing and income to schools and households to reported crime to comparison shortlist to population change to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Mount Morris, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Mount Morris?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 1.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 21.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the education layer cover for Mount Morris?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 8 public schools within the city match. 5.2% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Mount Morris?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 4301.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 89% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
Which cities make useful reference points for Mount Morris?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Michigan, the closest population matches are Gladwin (3,081 residents, $43,638 income); Harvey (3,080 residents, $75,188 income); Rockwood (3,189 residents, $85,391 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Gleed, WA (3,130 residents); West Fork, AR (3,131 residents); Shelby, MT (3,129 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Population change
Is Mount Morris growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -75 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 7 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
2020 estimate
3,161
2025 estimate
3,086
Period change
-2.4%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the journey to work look like in Mount Morris?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 86.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. The profile is strongly car-oriented, so a relocation comparison should put trip distance, vehicle access, and household fuel costs ahead of a citywide commute average. The same-state peer links offer a more relevant benchmark than a national label.
Drive alone
86.0%
Work from home
2.6%
Public transit
1.6%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 1,031 workers age 16+.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Michigan average
F
City profile score · Mount Morris, MI
19/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Cost of living C
96.2 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime F
554 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$42,886
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
21.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
5.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Mount Morris profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.2 index
Violent crime: 13/100 (F) · 554 /100k
Household income: 11/100 (F) · $42,886
Poverty rate: 10/100 (F) · 21.7%
Bachelor's+ share: 0/100 (F) · 5.2%
Where Mount Morris sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Mount Morris's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Mount Morris highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Mount Morris, MI (this city): home $79,500, crime 4,301/100k
West Fork, AR : home $182,800, crime 804/100k
Shenandoah, VA : home $187,300, crime 363/100k
Louisburg, NC : home $217,400, crime 5,868/100k
Gladwin, MI : home $111,700, crime 2,393/100k
Rockwood, MI : home $180,000, crime 548/100k
Potterville, MI : home $125,400, crime 161/100k
Corunna, MI : home $142,000, crime 365/100k
Blissfield, MI : home $164,600, crime 431/100k
How does Mount Morris compare to other US cities?
Mount Morris measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income11% higher than other cities
Home value3% pricier than other cities
Median rent32% pricier than other cities
Safety6% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Michigan alone, Mount Morris ranks #245 of 254 Michigan cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Mount Morris against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Michigan only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Michigan-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Mount Morris near the bottom of Michigan's cities
Among the 727 Michigan cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Mount Morris ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Mount Morris only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#621 of 718
14th percentile in Michigan
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 727
0th percentile in Michigan
Median Home Value
#662 of 721
8th percentile in Michigan
Poverty Rate
#57 of 727
92nd percentile in Michigan
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#698 of 727
4th percentile in Michigan
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Michigan only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
11th percentile nationally for median household income · 6th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Mount Morris's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Mount Morris's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Mount Morris's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$79,500Among the most affordablemore affordable than 97% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Mount Morris's home-value-to-income ratio: 1.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#1,160 of 15,516
More affordable than 93% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,121 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 1.9×, Mount Morris sits in the affordable band:
national rank #1,160 of 15,516 and #1,121 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$42,886Mount Morris, MI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Mount Morris, MI median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Mount Morris, MI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)5.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)21.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)45.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
3,130
Median Income
$42,886
Median Home Value
$79,500
Median Age
32.8
Poverty Rate
21.7%
Labor force participation
45.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
5.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
4301.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
553.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3747.1
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
8
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Mount Morris's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
3,161 residents
2021
3,141 residents
2022
3,106 residents
2023
3,090 residents
2024
3,085 residents
2025
3,086 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Low Activity
Total Permits (2024)
7
housing units authorized
Single-Family
7
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
0
0
0
-
2020
0
0
0
-
2021
0
0
0
-
2022
0
0
0
-
2023
2
2
0
$0.3M
2024
7
7
0
$1.1M
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
86.0%
Carpool
6.7%
Public Transit
1.6%
Walk
1.5%
Work from Home
2.6%
Other
1.6%
Based on 1,031 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Michigan statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $238
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Michigan at $238 (electricity about $105 , water and sewer about $48 ).
These are Michigan statewide averages, not a meter reading for Mount Morris. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Michigan's BEA cost-of-living index is 96.2 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Mount Morris is $1,113/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Michigan statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 49.6 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Michigan statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Mount Morris sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Mount Morris compares to similar-size Michigan cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.