Morris is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Morris enrolled in college, Morris has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.
One of the benefits of Morris is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 13.47 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
The education level of Morris citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 36.56% of adults in Morris have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Morris in 2022 was $37,720, which is middle income relative to Minnesota, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $150,880 for a family of four. However, Morris contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Morris is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Morris home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Morris residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Morris also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.59% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Morris include German, Norwegian, Irish, English, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Morris is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Miao/Hmong.
