The town is located in the Finger Lakes region, south of Auburn.

Moravia was long known as the last bastion of the Whigs, the defunct political party of native ex-U.S. president Millard Fillmore.

A few Whigs survived as late as the early 1980s according to voter registration records.

Mill Creek flows into the Owasco Inlet at Moravia village.

24.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.