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Utility Costs in Mississippi

Explore utility costs in Mississippi with state context, city dashboard links, related cost categories, service estimates, and planning notes. Compare utility cost context by state and use city dashboards for local household budget, climate, and housing signals.

City Examples Change State Related Guides Mississippi Hub
State context Compare

Use this page to orient around electricity, natural gas, water, sewer, trash, internet, and household usage patterns before opening a city dashboard.

Local accuracy City

City pages help connect statewide averages to housing, income, utility, climate, and demographic signals.

Next check Address

Verify exact providers, parcel records, insurance quotes, and local fees for the actual address.

Service costs Estimates

Pair household cost research with local service cost estimates for repairs, maintenance, and upgrades.

Residential electricity benchmark $0.163/kWh

State-level EIA benchmark repeated on city pages with a source caveat.

Median two-bedroom rent across cached cities $810/mo

Housing type and size often explain utility usage differences.

Median home value across cached cities $115,900

Older/larger housing stock can change heating and cooling needs.

State labor benchmark 3.8%

Useful context for household budgets, not a utility provider rate.

Mississippi Utility Costs Data Detail

Mississippi utility research should start with the state-level EIA electric benchmark, then move into city dashboards for housing size, climate, rent, and home-value context. This page is a utility-specific drill-down, so it labels the electric value as a state benchmark instead of pretending it is a city provider tariff.

Largest cached Mississippi city records for utility costs
CityPopulationElectricRentHome value
Jackson149,827$0.163/kWh$1,018/mo$108k
Gulfport72,533$0.163/kWh$1,030/mo$167k
Southaven55,531$0.163/kWh$1,361/mo$215k
Biloxi49,011$0.163/kWh$1,051/mo$203k
Hattiesburg48,507$0.163/kWh$995/mo$154k
Olive Branch46,538$0.163/kWh$1,609/mo$270k
Tupelo37,825$0.163/kWh$940/mo$201k
Meridian34,466$0.163/kWh$865/mo$101k
Greenville28,833$0.163/kWh$824/mo$101k
Madison27,775$0.163/kWh$1,798/mo$335k
Pearl27,458$0.163/kWh$1,152/mo$171k
Clinton27,418$0.163/kWh$1,135/mo$220k

How This Page Differs From the Dashboard

The Mississippi dashboard is a broad place overview. This utility costs page is a category detail page: it narrows the page around one search intent, compares the same metric family across major city records, and links back to city dashboards when local context is needed.

Use this page for statewide scanning, then open a city dashboard for neighborhood-level context and local comparisons. Use parcel records, provider bills, insurance quotes, and local fee schedules before treating any number as address-specific.

Source Notes

City-level values come from the cached Census ACS 2023 ACS 5-year place dataset where a matching city record exists. Electricity is a state-level EIA benchmark for 2026-03. Unemployment is a state-level BLS benchmark for April 2026. State-level benchmarks are planning context and are not city-specific provider prices, parcel tax bills, or insurance quotes.

Popular Mississippi City Dashboards

Open city pages for local metrics and links. Category city URLs are kept aligned with the newer city dashboard system.

AberdeenOpen local dashboard context for Aberdeen, Mississippi.Open city AckermanOpen local dashboard context for Ackerman, Mississippi.Open city AlcornOpen local dashboard context for Alcorn, Mississippi.Open city AmiteOpen local dashboard context for Amite, Mississippi.Open city AmoryOpen local dashboard context for Amory, Mississippi.Open city Arnold LineOpen local dashboard context for Arnold Line, Mississippi.Open city AshlandOpen local dashboard context for Ashland, Mississippi.Open city AttalaOpen local dashboard context for Attala, Mississippi.Open city

Methodology Notes

DataByArea combines generated page templates, public data signals, cached city metrics, state-level utility and economic context, and internal link checks. Where city-specific values are not available, pages should be read as planning context rather than exact quotes.

Source Context

Depending on the metric, DataByArea may use Census ACS, BLS, EIA, BEA, FRED, local assessor context, and cached city datasets. State-level values are not presented as parcel-level or household-specific quotes.