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Moorhead, MS

1,439 Population
1.3 square miles 1,111 people per square mile

Census data: ACS 2024 5-year unless noted

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Demographics

33.1 ±5.1 Median age
  • about 90 percent of the figure in Sunflower County: 37.1 ±0.8
  • about 90 percent of the figure in Mississippi: 38.6 ±0.1

Economics

$16,974 ±$3,601 Per capita income
  • about 80 percent of the amount in Sunflower County: $21,138 ±$1,561
  • about half the amount in Mississippi: $31,549 ±$274
$34,625 ±$11,857 Median household income
  • about 90 percent of the amount in Sunflower County: $39,956 † ±$4,403
  • about three-fifths of the amount in Mississippi: $56,447 ±$539

25.6% ±9.5% (274  ±122) Persons below poverty line
  • about 90 percent of the rate in Sunflower County: 28.9% † 6,133 (±3.8% / ±812)
  • about 1.4 times the rate in Mississippi: 18.9% 538,793 (±0.3% / ±9,325)

20.7 minutes ±3.4 (6,530  ±2,617) Mean travel time to work
  • about the same as the figure in Sunflower County: 20.2 164,885 (±1.8 / ±17,803)
  • about 80 percent of the figure in Mississippi: 25.6 29,988,504 (±0.2 / ±320,846)

Families

496 ±102 Number of households
  • Sunflower County: 8,034 ±228
  • Mississippi: 1,145,431 ±4,267
2.2 ±0.3 (1,074  ±264) Persons per household
  • about 80 percent of the figure in Sunflower County: 2.6 21,233 (±0.1 / ±144)
  • about 90 percent of the figure in Mississippi: 2.5 2,856,122

2.6% ±3% (12  ±15) Women 15-50 who gave birth during past year
  • about half the rate in Sunflower County: 5.3% † 271 (±2% / ±102)
  • about two-fifths of the rate in Mississippi: 5.9% 40,700 (±0.3% / ±2,011)

Housing

643 ±96 Number of housing units
  • Sunflower County: 9,423 ±62
  • Mississippi: 1,341,114 ±478

$82,000 ±$31,752 Median value of owner-occupied housing units
  • about 80 percent of the amount in Sunflower County: $100,300 ±$9,349
  • about half the amount in Mississippi: $169,800 ±$1,198

18.8% ±6.1% (269  ±99.7) Moved since previous year
  • nearly double the rate in Sunflower County: 9.8% † 2,358 (±1.5% / ±354.5)
  • more than 1.5 times the rate in Mississippi: 11% 319,149 (±0.3% / ±7,416.8)

Social

79.7% ±4.6% (668  ±158.6) High school grad or higher
  • a little higher than the rate in Sunflower County: 75.5% 12,561 (±4.6% / ±772.9)
  • about 90 percent of the rate in Mississippi: 87.2% 1,718,821 (±0.5% / ±10,654.3)
19.7% ±8.2% (165  ±78.6) Bachelor's degree or higher
  • about 25 percent higher than the rate in Sunflower County: 16% † 2,668 (±2.1% / ±355.4)
  • about 80 percent of the rate in Mississippi: 25.1% 495,720 (±0.3% / ±5,925)

N/A Persons with language other than English spoken at home

0.6% ±0.8% (8  ±12) Foreign-born population
  • about one-third of the rate in Sunflower County: 1.8% 429
  • about one-quarter of the rate in Mississippi: 2.4% 71,918

0.8% ±0.9% (10  ±11) Population with veteran status
  • about one-fifth of the rate in Sunflower County: 3.7% † 706 (±1.2% / ±226)
  • about 10 percent of the rate in Mississippi: 6.8% 151,757 (±0.2% / ±3,402)
10 Total veterans ±11 10 Male ±11 N/A Female ±14

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