Ocean Springs, Mississippi

Ocean Springs population, 2020 to 2024

Ocean Springs added 585 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.2%. In the latest year it moved by +14. Among 61 Mississippi places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 12th; the median place changed by -1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Mississippi has 12,656 people, so Ocean Springs is 1.5 times that size.

Ocean Springs covers 11.55 square miles of land and 3.66 of water, for 1,641 people per square mile of land. The median Mississippi place of 5,000+ has 738, so Ocean Springs is denser than the typical town.

What county Ocean Springs is in

All of Ocean Springs's residents live in Jackson County, which had 147,002 residents in 2024. Ocean Springs holds 12.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ocean Springs

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ocean Springs by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 39564. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Ocean Springs is

The Census internal point of Ocean Springs is at 30.402700, -88.788600. Jackson, the capital, is 154.8 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Gautier, MS (19,055 people), 7.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Mobile, AL, 44.5 miles away.

Daylight in Ocean Springs

At 30.40° N, Ocean Springs gets about 14 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 56 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ocean Springs

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Mississippi, measured between internal points. The closest is D'Iberville, 7.0 miles away, with 13,399 people.