Web Design in Moss Point, Mississippi

What a web designer should know about Moss Point

Moss Point lost 379 residents between 2020 and 2025, for a population of 11,743. When a city is not growing, businesses grow by being the one people pick, and reputation decides most of those choices. An outdated page reads like a closed business: send changes by email whenever something changes.

Census facts about Moss Point

Homeowners make up 72.2% of Moss Point’s 4,938 households. The median household income is $44,296, about 22% below the Mississippi median of $56,447. Half the residents are older than 44.6 (the Mississippi median age is 38.6).

The annual estimates show a slow decline, from 12,122 in 2020 to 11,743 in 2025. Statewide, the change was −0.2%. When the population is steady, businesses grow by taking customers from competitors, and the website is often where that choice happens.

Climate normals for Moss Point

By the 1991-2020 normals of the Pascagoula Lott International Airport weather station (2.6 miles from Moss Point), July highs average 91°F and January lows average 41°F. About 62 inches of rain and melted snow fall in a normal year. About 80 days a year hit 90°F or more. Heat sets the rhythm: outdoor work starts early, afternoons belong to indoor activities, and emergency calls spike in the hottest weeks. If you offer emergency or same-week service in bad weather, state it clearly and make the contact form fast to fill in.

Getting to and around Moss Point

Distances from Moss Point: Pascagoula (4.8 miles, pop. 21,409), Gautier (7.7 miles, pop. 19,069), Ocean Springs (15 miles, pop. 18,993) and Bayou La Batre, AL (16 miles, pop. 2,068). Moss Point covers 24.1 square miles of land and 2.5 square miles of water, about 487 residents per square mile. The nearest large city is Mobile, AL, 30 miles to the northeast. For flights, Trent Lott International Airport (PGL) lies 2.6 miles away. Jackson County’s county seat is Pascagoula, 4.8 miles to the south. Naming Ocean Springs, Gautier and the other places you cover on a service area page tells customers outside Moss Point that you work there too.

The businesses that compete for customers in Moss Point

ZIP code 39563, mostly within Moss Point, had 177 employer establishments in the 2023 count. Here is part of that mix, with what each website should show:

• Hotels and motels: 12. Their website should show rooms, photos, location and a contact form, so travelers can compare you outside the booking apps.
• Child care centers: 6. Their website should show programs by age, daily routine, your hours and a form for families who want to visit.
• Quick-service restaurants: 10. Their website should show the menu with prices, hours and the closest cross streets.
• Beer, wine and liquor stores: 3. Their website should show store hours, what you carry and events or tastings, on a site you control.

Jackson County as a whole had 2,358 employer establishments in 2023 and another 11,242 nonemployer businesses, the one-person shops and independent contractors that often have no website at all. Compared with the U.S. as a whole, Jackson County leans toward banks and lenders (96 establishments, twice the national share). For them, customers compare rates and branches, and the website should show branch hours, services and the required disclosures. Next on the list: hotels, inns and other lodging, 42 of them, at 2.1 times the national share. Moss Point’s working residents are concentrated in education, health care and social assistance (24.3%) and manufacturing (17.7%). Most of these businesses are small, and the website does the job a front desk would do in a bigger company.

Your Moss Point audience

15.9% of Moss Point households are online only through a cellphone data plan. For many residents the phone is the main way online, so the website has to work well on a small screen. Most of Moss Point is homegrown: 75.9% of residents were born in Mississippi. Reputation travels by word of mouth here, and the website is where a recommendation gets checked.

The median home here was built in 1968. Older homes need constant upkeep, and owners search for help when something breaks.

Paperwork and rules for Mississippi businesses online

A website doesn’t need a special license, but the business behind it follows the same Mississippi rules as any other.

• 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
• Fake or bought reviews are illegal under a federal rule in force since 2024 (16 CFR Part 465): post only real ones. 16 CFR Part 465
• If you send marketing email from your new business address, the CAN-SPAM rules (16 CFR Part 316) apply, including an easy way for people to opt out. 16 CFR Part 316

General information, not legal advice: confirm the details with the agency that handles each item.

How Aria builds a Moss Point website

Aria is a web design company based in Curitiba, Brazil, building websites, online stores and business email since 2008. We work with businesses remotely, so a company in Moss Point gets the same plan, at $89 a month, without meetings or visits.

1. Sign up online in about 5 minutes; the logo, photos and texts you already have go by email.
2. Within 5 business days you get a temporary link with the whole website, built with your logo, colors and photos.
3. Only after you approve do you pay the first monthly fee; then the site is published on your domain.

Later on, you send changes by email (a new price, a new photo, a new service) and the team makes them, with no extra charge.