Web Design in Biloxi, Mississippi

Before you build: what Biloxi looks like from a business owner’s chair

In Biloxi, 8.9% of workers walk to their jobs, far above most of the state. In a dense, walkable place, location and hours matter as much as price. Hours have to be right, since people come straight over after checking them.

Interstate 10 and Interstate 110 run through Biloxi, putting the city on one of the main travel and freight routes of Mississippi. Travelers look things up a few exits ahead, want an answer in seconds and rarely call to ask what you have. One screen with services, hours and location is all a driver has time for. Most of this is written once and kept current, which is precisely what the monthly changes by email are for.

Biloxi goes back to 1720, so it has three centuries of local history behind it. Long-established places reward businesses that look established too: people want to know who they are dealing with and how long you have been around. If the business has served Biloxi for a while, say so plainly and prove it with photos of real jobs. Get those few things right and the rest of the website can stay simple.

The roads, towns and places around Biloxi

The closest municipalities to Biloxi are D’Iberville (2.7 miles northeast), Gulfport (8 miles west), Ocean Springs (8.9 miles east), Long Beach (14 miles west), Gautier (16 miles east) and Pass Christian (20 miles west). Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport (GPT) is 8.1 miles west of Biloxi in a straight line. Harrison County’s county seat is Gulfport, 8 miles to the west. With 1,130 residents per square mile on 42.9 square miles of land and 24.8 square miles of water, Biloxi is moderately dense by Mississippi standards. The city lies at an elevation of about 20 feet. Mobile, AL, a city of 200,824, is 52 miles east. List the towns you actually serve, such as Long Beach and Gulfport, on your website; customers outside Biloxi want to know before they call.

Your Biloxi audience

Only 44.8% of residents were born in Mississippi; 45.4% came from another state, most often from the South. Without a website, a business is invisible to the people who arrived last year.

Harrison County had 217,136 residents in 2025 and 5 incorporated municipalities. Census estimates for a city this size carry a wide margin of error, so the county is the better guide: households have a median income of $59,479, and half the residents are older than 38.5. 89.2% of households have broadband and 12.0% rely on a cellphone data plan alone. 62.2% of households own their home.

Local competition in Biloxi

The Census Bureau’s ZIP Code Business Patterns put 769 establishments with paid employees in Biloxi’s ZIP codes (39530, 39531, 39534) in 2023. A sample of that count, and what each kind of business needs online:

• Full-service restaurants (48): the menu, the dining room, private-event information and the hours, kept current by email.
• Gift and souvenir shops (8): what you carry, store hours and an online store for the same monthly fee.
• RV parks and campgrounds (3): site types, amenities, rules, a map and a contact form for availability.
• Boat dealers (3): the brands you carry, service and storage information and a contact form.
• Physician practices (32): the doctors, specialties, insurance accepted and a form for new-patient requests.

Across Harrison County, County Business Patterns counted 4,368 employer establishments in 2023, and the Nonemployer Statistics add 17,419 businesses with no payroll, most of them self-employed owners. Harrison County has twice the national share of clothing and accessories stores: 124 of them in the 2023 count. In that line of work, shoppers browse before they visit, so the website should show new arrivals, brands, sizes and store hours, or an online store. Next on the list: vehicle dealers, 119 of them, at 1.9 times the national share. The jobs Biloxi residents hold are mostly in education, health care and social assistance (25.7%) and arts, entertainment, recreation, lodging and food service (19.3%).

Biloxi’s population, year by year

The annual estimates show a slow decline, from 49,412 in 2020 to 48,516 in 2025. That compares with −0.2% for Mississippi as a whole. In a stable market, reputation matters, and a website lets customers check yours at any hour.

Weather in Biloxi: plan the website around it

Biloxi weather, in normals: August highs around 90°F, January lows around 44°F, measured at Biloxi, 4.5 miles away (1991-2020). Precipitation totals about 67 inches a year, with July the wettest month. About 52 days a year hit 90°F or more. With this much rain, roofing, gutters and drainage work never run out of calls, often on short notice. Give seasonal work its own page, so customers find them when they need them.

Biloxi: the numbers behind the market

Half the residents are older than 36.6 (the Mississippi median age is 38.6). Median household income in Biloxi is $57,204, in line with the Mississippi median ($56,447). 50.1% of the city’s 19,914 households own the place they live in.

Before you publish: Mississippi and federal rules

Selling or advertising online brings no special license, but these apply to most Biloxi businesses:

• Newsletters and promotions sent from your business email must include a working way to unsubscribe (16 CFR Part 316). 16 CFR Part 316
• Mississippi’s regular retail sales tax rate is 7%. Groceries dropped to 5% on July 1, 2025. Local add-ons exist only at the city level: Tupelo adds 0.25% and Jackson adds 1% on certain sales. A sales tax permit from the Department of Revenue is required before doing business, one per location. Mississippi Department of Revenue
• A federal rule (16 CFR Part 465) makes it unlawful to write, buy or sell fake reviews and testimonials, so the reviews on a business website have to be real. 16 CFR Part 465

Rules change and details vary by business; this is general information, not legal advice.

How Aria builds a Biloxi website

Aria is a web design company based in Curitiba, Brazil, building websites, online stores and business email since 2008. There are no visits or meetings in Biloxi: you send your material by email, and you approve the website on a temporary link.

1. You sign up in about 5 minutes and email us your logo, photos and anything you want on the site.
2. We build it with your brand on a proven professional template and send a temporary link within 5 business days.
3. Approve it: the first monthly fee is issued and your domain starts showing the new site.

Once the site is live, hosting, SSL, daily backups and security updates are handled for you, and content changes by email are included.