Mooreville has some of the highest unemployment in the country: 24.3%
Hardly any work in Mooreville; the top destination outside it is Tupelo (44%, 9 miles). The two grades for Mooreville are C+ for jobs and income and D− for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 87% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Mooreville and work: the main findings
44% of Mooreville works in Tupelo
156 working residents, 44%, have their main job in Tupelo, 8.9 miles away. That’s far more as work in Mooreville itself. The commute map ↓
Mooreville is a place people come home to
There are 67 jobs based in Mooreville, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Mooreville are quick
The average trip to work takes 16 minutes, against 26 across Mississippi. That’s about 77 hours a year less on the road than the typical Mississippi worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 355 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Mooreville’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Mooreville is better than 42% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Mooreville’s grade up ($118,333, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mooreville could be anywhere from D to B.
Where people from Mooreville work
Where Mooreville clocks in
44% of workers
5% of workers
2% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Mooreville by day and by night
On a workday 354 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 66 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Mooreville on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.19 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
About 16 minutes each way, quicker than most of Mississippi
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mooreville workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 772 commuters (the 2% who work from home are left out). Across Mississippi: 87% drive alone, <1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
What the 67 jobs in Mooreville are
67 jobs are based in Mooreville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mooreville, 2013 → 2023: 58 → 67. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mooreville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Mooreville goes to work
About 17% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Mooreville, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mooreville is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Mooreville near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 788 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.5% of Mooreville households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mooreville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Mooreville is 2,746th among 5,404 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,749 | Guntown MS | 2,616 | $96K | 9.8% | 3.4% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,823 | Lynchburg MS | 2,161 | $89K | 7.1% | 10.2% | <1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,835 | DeLisle MS | 1,906 | $72K | 7.2% | 3.9% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,744 | Brown Township OH | 2,029 | $70K | 14.4% | 2.9% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,745 | Bartlow Township OH | 2,172 | $81K | 11.0% | 4.4% | 15% | C+ |
| 2,746 | Mooreville MS | 2,154 | $118K | 10.8% | 24.3% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,747 | Pine Crest TN | 2,029 | $54K | 9.7% | 14.6% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,748 | Dale IN | 1,517 | $62K | 7.6% | 3.0% | 11% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Mooreville, the top three, the last and three more from Mississippi.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Mooreville: questions
What is the median household income in Mooreville?
$118,333 (±$88,241) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mooreville?
10.8%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mooreville?
16 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mooreville work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tupelo (44%, 9 mi), Fulton (5%, 10 mi), New Albany (2%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mooreville walkable?
Mooreville is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mooreville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mooreville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mooreville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.