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How Moore's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Moore?
Your $100,000 in Moore has the same purchasing power as $117,261 in the average US city. You'd need $17,261 less here to maintain that standard of living.
Demographics and workforce data from the US Census ACS 5-Year.
bachelor's or higher
Climate, safety, and walkability indicators.
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Within 10 points of Moore's cost index of 85, sorted by closest match.
Moore has a handful of real selling points, and they're not the kind of thing you find in a brochure. Your dollar carries more weight here and safer than the typical us city are the headliners, plus 1 more things worth knowing. The rest is below.
The composite cost-of-living index lands at 85, a comfortable 15% under the US norm. It shows up most clearly in housing, which is where the gap to coastal metros usually opens up. Median rent in town runs about $1,208/mo against a typical household income of $73,285, which is the kind of ratio that leaves room to save.
Reported crime in Moore comes in around 2,294 per 100,000 — under the national baseline of about 3,500. Worth digging into specific neighborhoods before settling on one, but the city-level picture is on the safer side.
Average commute time in Moore runs around 24 minutes one-way — short enough that it doesn't restructure your day. Compared to the 45-plus-minute commutes that are normal in major metros, the difference adds up to a real lifestyle gap.
Reasons are pulled from Moore's actual data — Census ACS, BLS, BEA, NOAA, EPA AQS, FBI, and Walk Score. We don't list positives that aren't supported by the numbers, which is why different cities show different sections.
Moore gets a handful of meaningful snow days each year. Winters average about 29°F — cold enough for several inches at a time, warm enough for everything to melt between storms.
A real winter, but not a punishing one. Moore averages roughly 29°F in winter, with the coldest mornings dipping into the single digits a few times a year and most days landing somewhere between "chilly" and "actually cold".
Properly hot. Moore's summer averages around 91°F with daily highs that routinely break 100°F. The trick to summer here is starting the day at sunrise and staying inside through the worst of it.
Moore falls in roughly USDA Zone 8. The zone classification is based on average annual minimum temperatures, so it's the right lookup for whether perennials and trees will overwinter here. Note that this is approximate from our winter-temperature data — check the USDA map for the exact zone before betting an expensive plant on it.
Roughly 1,211 feet (369 m). That's modest elevation — comparable to most inland-Midwest and Southern cities.
Middle of the pack. Moore comes in around 2,294 per 100,000, basically the national average. The interesting question is usually which neighborhood, not which city — that's where the real variation lives.
Moore is a genuinely affordable city by US standards. The composite index sits at 85 versus the 100 national baseline — about 15% cheaper overall, with housing doing most of the heavy lifting.
Moore scores 49 out of 100 on Walk Score, which translates to "car-dependent but not aggressively so". Some neighborhoods buck the citywide average; the dense inner cores are usually noticeably more walkable than the city number suggests.
As a rule of thumb, plan on about $59,696 to live in Moore the way a $70,000 earner lives in a typical US city. The math gets less forgiving the lower you go below that. Median rent in Moore runs about $1,208/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.