Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Typical home $141,279 (-0.8% in a year), asking rent $1,091 (-5.2%). Gulfport-Biloxi, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$369 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,077 -1%
- $142,356$141,279 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,102 +14%
- $124,177$141,279 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Pascagoula$742
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Pascagoula, MS fell 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Pascagoula, MS fell 5.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Pascagoula runs $115/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $286 in Apr 2026.
That is $976 a month against $1,091 rent: a $742 mortgage payment, plus $83 property tax and $151 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Pascagoula
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$976
- Renting$1,091
- Mortgage only$742
Property tax · $83/mo 0.71% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Jackson County, MS
Insurance & upkeep · $151/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Pascagoula, Jackson County, Mississippi
Pascagoula is a city of 22,010 people in Jackson County. Half its households earn more than $52,222 a year and half less, against $66,201 across Jackson County; 24% of its people live below the poverty line. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Pascagoula was 3.8% in August 2026, and Jackson County had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Pascagoula is a small city on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and its residents are somewhat younger than in many American towns. Incomes run below the county's, and more people here rent their homes than across Jackson County as a whole. Winters are mild and short, with almost no snow, and summers are hot, with a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops also employing large numbers of people. Among the biggest workplaces in town are the shipyard Huntington Ingalls, Singing River Health System and the Pascagoula-Gautier School District. Most people have a fairly short drive to work, and few work from home. Across Jackson County, there are fewer jobs than a year earlier.
Things to do. Old Spanish Fort, a museum, is in or beside town. A short drive away are Shepard State Park and Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge, both protected areas, and the Escatawpa River offers time on the water. Bellingrath Gardens and Home, a botanical garden, is a longer drive away.
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- 8,734households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 50,095 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 38°; warmest in August, with highs near 89° and lows near 71°. About 70 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pascagoula Northeast weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pascagoula
- Huntington IngallsShipyard11,642
- Singing River Health SystemGeneral hospital2,281FTE
- Bollinger Mississippi ShipbuildingShipyard1,409
- Pascagoula-gautier School DistrictSchool district1,360FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters400
- Bollinger Mississippi RepairShipyard270
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter121
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationFederal government · Department of Commerce113
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,470 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pascagoula’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Jackson County and the Gulfport-Biloxi, MS metro.
Pascagoula home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pascagoula$141,279
- Mississippi$194,531
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Pascagoula listings, and the typical home goes pending in 26 days — the market is cooling.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Pascagoula27.83%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Pascagoula26
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pascagoula99
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pascagoula28
Zip codes with a Pascagoula address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pascagoula — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Pascagoula
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39581 | Pascagoula | 11,390 | $1,103 | $137,575 |
| 39567 | Pascagoula | 10,341 | $1,133 | $145,397 |