Pascagoula, Mississippi

Pascagoula population, 2020 to 2024

Pascagoula lost 493 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.2%. In the latest year it moved by -113. Among 61 Mississippi places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 38th; the median place changed by -1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Mississippi has 12,656 people, so Pascagoula is 1.7 times that size.

Pascagoula covers 15.38 square miles of land and 9.14 of water, for 1,396 people per square mile of land. The median Mississippi place of 5,000+ has 738, so Pascagoula is denser than the typical town.

What county Pascagoula is in

All of Pascagoula's residents live in Jackson County, which had 147,002 residents in 2024. Pascagoula holds 14.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pascagoula

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Pascagoula by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 39567, 39581, 39595. 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 Pascagoula is

The Census internal point of Pascagoula is at 30.360100, -88.556300. Jackson, the capital, is 164.9 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Biloxi, MS (48,144 people), 23.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Mobile, AL, 34.1 miles away.

Daylight in Pascagoula

At 30.36° N, Pascagoula 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 55 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Pascagoula

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Mississippi, measured between internal points. The closest is Moss Point, 4.8 miles away, with 11,791 people.