The community sits at the end of the Chesapeake Expressway toll road, and is only 25 miles (40 km) south of downtown Norfolk, Virginia.

Moyock is the closest of all North Carolina locales to the following places: As of the 2020 United States census, there were 5,154 people, 1,563 households, and 1,187 families residing in the CDP.

The CKC moved their operations a half mile south of the state line to a quarter-mile oval track in Moyock on North Carolina Highway 168.

After the Cavalier Kennel Club (CKC) was eliminated by the North Carolina General Assembly in the 1950s,[citation needed] Moyock began to host auto racing at the renamed Dog Track Speedway (DTS).

[citation needed] Moyock was the corporate headquarters of Blackwater Worldwide, which was renamed Xe Services LLC, and relocated to Arlington County, Virginia, as Academi.