MoorevilleMS
A town of 2,154, settled in 1849.
Is Mooreville a good place to live?
Mooreville’s best subject grade is an A− for cost of living; its weakest is a D− for walkability. Only 3 of Mississippi’s 187 towns score lower on the outdoors. Mooreville has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Mooreville stand out
Where Mooreville beats most towns.
100% of working residents leave Mooreville for work
Where Mooreville’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Mooreville grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Mississippi), ordered by how far Mooreville is from typical.
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Natchez Trace Parkway and 4 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Mooreville. Close and well known come first.
8 mi ParkwayNatchez Trace Parkway8.0M visitors a year
6 mi MuseumElvis Presley Birthplace
9 mi National BattlefieldTupelo National Battlefield686 visitors a year
19 mi National park siteBrices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site2K visitors a year
7 mi MuseumTupelo Automobile MuseumPhoto credits
Natchez Trace Parkway: Carol M. Highsmith (1946–), Public domain · Elvis Presley Birthplace: Markuskun at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Tupelo National Battlefield: Chris Light (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site: Wilson44691, Public domain · Tupelo Automobile Museum: James Case from Philadelphia, Mississippi, U.S.A., CC BY 2.0
Moving to Mooreville: who provides what
Mooreville is unincorporated, so Lee County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Mooreville.
Mooreville’s schools rank ahead of 54% of Mississippi districts
Its three schools are below. The largest public high school is Mooreville High School, with 445 students. The public schools here belong to the Lee County school district.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mooreville Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 722 | A− |
| Mooreville High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 445 | B+ |
| Mooreville Middle SchoolTop results in townGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 333 | A− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within MS on state tests and graduation
A smaller share of working residents in Mooreville work locally than in the typical Mississippi or U.S. town
In Mooreville, 11% of residents live below the poverty line, against 21% in Mississippi’s towns and 9.6% across U.S. towns. Among 102 Mississippi towns, just 3 have a lower mean commuting time than Mooreville. For half of commuters, work is under 10 miles away. The top destinations are Tupelo (44%), Fulton (5%) and New Albany (2%).
| Mooreville | Mississippi towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 16 minutes | 23 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.3% | 19% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 11% | 21% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Homes in Mooreville are worth about $227K, by Zillow’s estimate
Home values are up 7.2% over the year to September 2026. The typical rent for Mooreville comes to $1,079 a month, above the Mississippi town median ($905 a month) but below the median of U.S. towns ($1,185 a month). In Mooreville, nearly two thirds of households live in a home they own.
| Mooreville | Mississippi towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 66% | 62% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,079 a month | $905 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Top of a moderate hazard risk in Mooreville: inland flooding
On expected storm and flood damage, Mooreville sits below 56% of U.S. communities. Of the losses FEMA expects in the town, 30% come from inland flooding and 27% from cold waves. Federal aid has come to Mooreville households in 2 declared disasters; the latest was in 2026.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Residents of Mooreville are less healthy than 54% of U.S. towns
A fifth of adults say their health is fair or poor in Mooreville. Of 31 CDC measures, Mooreville beats the Mississippi average on 14 and trails it on 2. Among adults here, 34% have obesity and 12% have diabetes. Only 5 of the 102 Mississippi towns we compare have a higher share of adults who have been diagnosed with depression than Mooreville.
| Mooreville | Mississippi towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 39% | 36% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 34% | 42% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 16% | 12% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 37% | 33% |
| What stands out | Mooreville | MS |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 7.3% | 11.2% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 15.3% | 22.4% |
| Fewer adults screened for colon cancer | 56.5% | 61.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Everything we know about Mooreville
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Mooreville
About 9 of every 100 Mooreville residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Mississippi.
About Mooreville
Census-designated place in Mississippi, United States
Mooreville, sometimes misspelled as Mooresville, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lee County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2020 census, Mooreville had a population of 859. Mooreville is part of the Tupelo Micropolitan Statistical Area. It has a post office and a ZIP code (38857).
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- Area
- 2.8 sq mi
- Elevation
- 394 ft
- ZIP code
- 38857
Questions about Mooreville
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Mooreville, MS expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A−.
What is Mooreville, MS known for?
2 notable people were born here, including Jamie Franks and Peggy Webb.