Moore County area

Population and density of Moore County

The Census Bureau estimates that 6,920 people lived in Moore County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,738 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #92 of 95 in Tennessee. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 6,467, the population has grown by 453 (+7%), compared with +5.8% for Tennessee as a whole.

With 129.2 square miles of land, that is 54 people per square mile (21 per km²), placing Moore County #1,486 nationally for density and #66 in Tennessee. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Tennessee median is 76. Put another way, there are about 12 acres of land per resident.

U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. Estimates are revised each year and are not decennial census counts. Density divides the whole population by the whole county’s land area, so it describes an average, not how settlement is distributed within the county. Population sources and methods.

Cities and towns in Moore County

Every resident of Moore County lives within Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government. The city and the county equivalent cover the same territory, 129.2 square miles of land in the 2026 place Gazetteer, so there are no separate towns or unincorporated areas to list.

Metropolitan area

Moore County is an outlying county of the Tullahoma-Manchester, TN Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 69,339 residents on 558.2 square miles of land; Moore County accounts for 23.2% of the land and 10% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #390 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #115 by population. It belongs to the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro, TN Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

10 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Moore County; 1 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

37144371603718337306373343735237359373603738837398

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Lighter codes have less than half of their land in this county. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Moore County

Moore County shares a land border with 4 county equivalents. Each of them has more land than Moore County. The largest neighbor is Lincoln County (570.3 mi²) and the smallest is Coffee County (429 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Moore County forms a block of 2,156.7 mi² of land, of which it holds 6%.

How big is Moore County compared with U.S. states?

Moore County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 8 times as much. Tennessee’s county land could hold about 319 areas the size of Moore County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 11.4 miles (18.3 km) on each side. Real county shapes are rarely square, so this is a scale reference rather than a width or driving distance.

State figures are the sums of each state’s county-equivalent land measurements in the same Census release, so states and counties are compared on the same basis. Published state totals can differ slightly because of rounding. Compare all states · Counties bigger than entire states.

What stands out about Moore County?

Moore County has more land than 147 of the other 3,221 county equivalents in the dataset.

A median is the middle county-equivalent measurement, not the average of the largest and smallest. All three bars use the same linear scale. Very small areas may appear as a thin sliver; the labels retain their values.

Does including water change its rank?

Using land plus water places Moore County at #3,093 nationally by total area, 18 places farther from the top than its land rank. Other county equivalents gain more area when their water measurements are included.

Its water share is 0.9%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.3 percentage points lower. This describes the statistical geography’s land/water mix, not flood exposure or developable land.

Closest positions in the national land ranking

These entries sit immediately beside Moore County in the national ranking. They can be in different states and are not necessarily geographic neighbors.

Calculated from the same Census release as the area table. Total-area order uses original ALAND + AWATER; water shares and chart labels use published square miles. Calculation details.