Mooresville, North Carolina

Mooresville population, 2020 to 2024

Mooresville added 2,322 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.6%. In the latest year it moved by -1,007. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 77th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Mooresville is 3.6 times that size.

Mooresville covers 27.36 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 1,933 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Mooresville is denser than the typical town.

What county Mooresville is in

All of Mooresville's residents live in Iredell County, which had 206,361 residents in 2024. Mooresville holds 25.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mooresville

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Mooresville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28115, 28117. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Mooresville is

The Census internal point of Mooresville is at 35.583700, -80.827800. Raleigh, the capital, is 123.6 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Huntersville, NC (67,087 people), 12.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Concord, NC, 17.1 miles away.

Daylight in Mooresville

At 35.58° N, Mooresville gets about 14 h 34 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 45 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mooresville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Davidson, 7.1 miles away, with 16,276 people.