Best PlacesMooresville, IN Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Mooresville, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Mooresville ranks 14,939th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. The weather pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on cheap car insurance.
The best neighborhoods in Mooresville
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
Mooresville's strengths and weaknesses
Where Mooresville ranks high
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 86% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 84% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 83% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 83% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 81% of towns
Where Mooresville ranks low
- Nice weatherabout 55 pleasant days a year, better than only 3% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 3% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 5% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 16% of towns
- Cheap childcare$997 a month, better than only 25% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Mooresville
A household needs to earn about $66,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Mooresville home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $87,815, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Mooresville's effective rate of 0.59%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 8 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Mooresville
Mooresville runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Mooresville.
Who works in Mooresville, and how
Work in Mooresville centers on health care & social and manufacturing. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 86%
- Work from home 12%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Mooresville
Mooresville has more restaurants and bars per resident than 72% of towns and more parkland per resident than 92% of towns. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Mooresville and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Mooresville, month by month
Mooresville sees roughly 55 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 88 degrees. January highs sit near 39, with lows near 21. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 39° | 30° | 21° |
| April | 67° | 53° | 41° |
| July | 88° | 77° | 67° |
| October | 70° | 57° | 46° |
Flying in and out of Mooresville
Indianapolis International sits about 9 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 5.2 million passengers in 2025, with 92 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Mooresville
Schools across Mooresville average a B−, better than 57% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Clarks Creek ElementaryA− · 59% proficient
- Brentwood Elementary SchoolA− · 57% proficient
- Mill Creek East ElementaryB+ · 55% proficient
Top middle schools
- Plainfield Community Middle SchoolA · 62% proficient
- Cascade Middle SchoolB · 44% proficient
- Bell Intermediate AcademyC+ · 37% proficient
Top high schools
- Cascade Senior High SchoolA · 70% proficient
- Plainfield High SchoolA− · 65% proficient
- Mooresville High SchoolB+ · 52% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Mooresville school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Mooresville measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Mooresville against the other 50,332 towns.
Who Mooresville suits
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 81% of towns, internet is fast and widely advertised, and 12% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Mooresville
Is Mooresville a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Mooresville ranks 14,939th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, few empty homes, and walkability, and lowest on the weather and air quality. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Mooresville expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $260,721. The overall cost of living runs about 14% below the national average. Set against a $87,815 median income, cost of living beats 81% of towns.
Is Mooresville safe?
Yes, Mooresville is safer than 66% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $296 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Mooresville?
July highs average about 88 degrees, and January highs near 39 with lows near 21. That works out to about 55 pleasant days a year, more than 3% of towns.
Is Mooresville good for families?
Schools beat 57% of towns, crime safety beats 66%, and childcare runs $997 a month.
Compare Mooresville with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Mooresville. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Mooresville represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
Mooresville detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Mooresville: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Mooresville: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Mooresville: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Mooresville: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Mooresville detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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