Mooresboro, North Carolina.
Typical home $155,672 (+3.2% in a year). Shelby, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$407 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,758 +3%
- $150,914$155,672 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $12,978 +9%
- $142,694$155,672 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Mooresboro$817
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 40 years.
Typical home values in Mooresboro, NC rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mooresboro, Cleveland County, North Carolina
Mooresboro is a town of 293 people in Cleveland County. Unemployment in Cleveland County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cleveland County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Mooresboro is a very small town in Cleveland County, North Carolina, with a population far smaller than most towns people think of when they picture a place to settle. Homes here are valued well below what is typical across much of the country. Winters are cool and short, with only a little snow, and summers turn hot, with rain spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Across Cleveland County, the largest workplaces include Cleveland County Schools, Atrium Health Cleveland and Gardner-Webb University. Commutes are of ordinary length, and few people work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased a little compared with a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The First Broad River and the Second Broad River are a short drive away, and Ernest W. Spangler Stadium is close by as well. For a longer outing, Crowders Mountain State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Kings Mountain National Military Park is a historic battlefield site, also a longer drive.
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- 22 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Cleveland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cleveland County had 35,958 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 66°. About 4 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Shelby Northwest weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cleveland County
- Cleveland County SchoolsSchool district1,851FTE
- Atrium Health ClevelandGeneral hospital1,597FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,422
- Gardner-Webb UniversityUniversity or college608
- Cleveland Community CollegeTwo-year college567
- Catawba Two Kings Casino494
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters440
- Electric Glass Fiber AmericaGlass fiber, textile type, made in glass making plants404
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 89 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,307 people in all across the county; Mooresboro has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mooresboro’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Cleveland County and the Shelby, NC metro.
Mooresboro home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mooresboro$155,672
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Mooresboro listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Mooresboro24.59%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mooresboro23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mooresboro5
Zip codes with a Mooresboro address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mooresboro — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.