Kingstown vs Mooresboro

A side-by-side comparison of Kingstown and Mooresboro: population, income, housing, and more.

Kingstown and Mooresboro are places in North Carolina. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Kingstown has the higher population (499 vs 168 in Mooresboro). Mooresboro has the higher median household income ($39,167 vs $31,625 in Kingstown). Mooresboro has the higher median home value ($120,000 vs $87,100 in Kingstown).

Population, income & housing

	Kingstown	Mooresboro
Population	499	168
Median age	50.4 yrs	36.4 yrs
Median household income	$31,625	$39,167
Median home value	$87,100	$120,000
Median gross rent	$833	$792
Housing units	286	122
Homeownership rate	73.7%	73.2%
Bachelor's degree or higher	6.6%	20.2%
Unemployment rate	10.4%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Kingstown	Mooresboro
Population	492 → 499 (+1.4%)	372 → 168 (-54.8%)
Median household income	$41,667 → $31,625 (-24.1%)	$37,143 → $39,167 (+5.4%)
Median home value	$83,300 → $87,100 (+4.6%)	$115,600 → $120,000 (+3.8%)
Median gross rent	$668 → $833 (+24.7%)	$575 → $792 (+37.7%)

Kingstown

Population

492499

Median household income

$41,667$31,625

Median home value

$83,300$87,100

Median gross rent

$668$833

Mooresboro

Population

372168

Median household income

$37,143$39,167

Median home value

$115,600$120,000

Median gross rent

$575$792

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Kingstown	Mooresboro
Under 5	3.2%	10.1%
5 to 17	15.0%	7.7%
18 to 24	9.4%	11.3%
25 to 34	2.6%	14.3%
35 to 44	9.8%	11.3%
45 to 54	14.4%	4.2%
55 to 64	9.4%	17.3%
65 to 74	29.1%	15.5%
75 and over	7.0%	8.3%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Kingstown	Mooresboro
White (non-Hispanic)	11.6%	79.8%
Black or African American	85.2%	17.9%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	3.2%	1.2%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	1.2%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Kingstown	Mooresboro
No high school diploma	13.9%	3.4%
High school graduate	47.9%	35.3%
Some college or associate's	31.6%	41.2%
Bachelor's degree	4.7%	14.3%
Graduate or professional degree	1.9%	5.9%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Kingstown	Mooresboro
Drove alone	80.5%	91.5%
Carpooled	17.4%	0.0%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	4.2%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	0.0%	4.2%
Other means	2.1%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Kingstown	Mooresboro
1-unit, detached	96.5%	71.3%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	2.5%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	3.5%	26.2%

Poverty & households

	Kingstown	Mooresboro
Poverty rate	24.4%	22.0%
Average household size	2.02	2.05
Mean commute (minutes)	26	21
Median year structure built	1975	1966