City guides / Gulfport-Biloxi
Endcap Design is a web design agency that designs and builds websites for businesses, with the branding and marketing to match, and works remotely with clients outside Southern California. This guide collects the business numbers, building activity, and Mississippi rules we would look at before designing a site for a business in Gulfport or elsewhere in the metro, including Biloxi, Pascagoula, Gautier, and Ocean Springs.
Updated October 2026 with building permits through August 2026, from U.S. Census Bureau data. Sources are listed at the end of this page.
Endcap is based in Orange County, California, and works remotely with clients outside Southern California by video call, phone, and email.
The market
The figures that shape who a Gulfport website is for and what it needs to do. Each figure is the most recent Census release in this guide’s data, with its year shown.
431,329
residents in the metro
Census population estimate, July 2025
+3.5%
population change since 2020
April 2020 to July 2025; the US grew 3.1%
7,882
business locations with employees
County Business Patterns 2023
300
real estate businesses
NAICS 531, 2023
60
property management companies
Residential and nonresidential, 2023
2,195
new housing units permitted
January through August 2026
$65,256
median household income
American Community Survey 2024
31%
of households rent their home
53,027 renter households
Business mix
Self-storage operators are the most concentrated of these businesses in the Gulfport metro: 7 for every 100,000 residents, and their share of local businesses is 1.66 times the national share. Restaurants and bars follow at 1.33 times the national share. Real estate brokerages are less common here than nationally, at 0.58 times the national share.
The chart compares each sector’s share of Gulfport-area business locations with its share nationally (a location quotient). 1.00× matches the US; higher means the sector is more concentrated here. County Business Patterns 2023.
Building activity
New buildings mean new properties to lease and new businesses to open. Census Building Permits Survey, August 2026.
Builders in the Gulfport metro were authorized to build 2,195 new housing units from January through August 2026, about the same as the 2,152 in the same months of 2025.
4% of those units are in buildings with five or more homes, against 32% nationally.
Most new construction here is single-family. New subdivisions and the shopping centers that follow them need leasing and community websites as each phase opens.
What this means for your site
What we would plan into a Gulfport website, based on the numbers above.
Talk through your siteRestaurants and bars are 1.33 times as concentrated here as nationally. A restaurant or retail tenant site needs the menu as real text, current hours, and ordering or reservation links on the first screen of a phone.
Self-storage operators are 1.66 times as concentrated here as nationally. A facility site should show unit sizes, current rates if you publish them, and a direct link to rent or reserve.
Brokerage websites in Mississippi carry specific disclosure requirements (30 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 1601, R. 3.3 (Advertising), amended effective July 1, 2018, and R. 3.5, adopted effective July 1, 2018; authority cited for the rules includes Miss. Code Ann. §§ 73-35-35, 73-35-3(4), 73-35-18(3) and 73-35-21). We build them into the footer and listing templates, so every page that advertises a property has them.
Every site we build follows WCAG 2.2 AA practice: readable contrast, keyboard navigation, labeled forms, and text alternatives for images. Federal ADA website lawsuits run into the thousands each year, most of them filed in New York, Florida, and Illinois.
Mississippi rules
State rules that change what goes on a business or real estate website in Mississippi, checked against official sources as of October 9, 2026. This is general information, not legal advice; your counsel owns the final wording.
Worth knowing Mississippi taxes the design and creation of a web page as a computer software service at the regular 7 percent retail sales tax rate, regardless of where the site is hosted, under Department of Revenue rule 35.IV.5.06.
Privacy
Mississippi has not enacted a comprehensive consumer data privacy law as of October 9, 2026. This reflects published state privacy-law trackers. Privacy laws in other states, and federal rules, can still apply when a site collects data from their residents.
Real estate advertising
All Mississippi real estate advertising, which the rule defines to include e-mail, text messages, public blogs, social media and internet displays, must be in the name of and supervised by the Principal Broker or Brokerage Firm and must prominently display that name and its telephone number. The broker or firm name must be in the same size or larger print than the name of any licensee, team member or team, and any licensee or team name must be placed near it.
Accessibility
Title III of the ADA covers businesses open to the public, but the Department of Justice has no regulation that sets a technical standard for private business websites. DOJ's web guidance says businesses have flexibility in how they make their websites accessible and points to WCAG as a helpful existing technical standard. Federal appeals courts have not agreed on when a website is covered, so a website's legal status can depend on where a lawsuit is filed and whether the site is connected to a physical location. Mississippi has no separate website accessibility statute for private businesses in our research, so WCAG 2.2 AA is the practical target.
What we design
Ordered by how concentrated each kind of business is in the Gulfport metro. We design for every kind of business.
Portfolio
Websites and identities we have designed and built for our clients. See all of our work.
Client words
We own ten homes at Casa De Laguna and were still sending people to a site built in 2013. Noah pulled the photos and details out of the old site, designed a logo from the rooflines and the pond, and put the community, the homes and current availability in one place. It’s the first time the website has looked like the place we actually rent.
“Highly recommend. Great work.”
The Census Bureau counted 300 real estate business locations with employees in the Gulfport metro in 2023, including 90 offices of agents and brokers and 60 property management companies.
From January through August 2026, the Gulfport metro permitted 2,195 new housing units, according to the Census Building Permits Survey.
Mississippi has not enacted a comprehensive consumer data privacy law as of October 9, 2026. Privacy laws in other states can still apply when a website collects data from their residents.
All Mississippi real estate advertising, which the rule defines to include e-mail, text messages, public blogs, social media and internet displays, must be in the name of and supervised by the Principal Broker or Brokerage Firm and must prominently display that name and its telephone number. The broker or firm name must be in the same size or larger print than the name of any licensee, team member or team, and any licensee or team name must be placed near it. (30 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 1601, R. 3.3 (Advertising), amended effective July 1, 2018, and R. 3.5 (Real Estate Teams or Groups), adopted effective July 1, 2018; authority cited for the rules includes Miss. Code Ann. §§ 73-35-35, 73-35-3(4), 73-35-18(3) and 73-35-21)
Yes. Endcap is based in Orange County, California, and works remotely with clients outside Southern California by video call, phone, and email. You review the design and the working site online before launch.
We quote each project after a short conversation, once we know the pages, content, and features it needs. The proposal lists the deliverables, schedule, and price, and we agree on it before work begins.
Most websites take two to four weeks once the content is ready. The proposal confirms the schedule.
Nearby city guides
National rankings: where the US is building, property managers by metro, brokerages by metro, and commercial landlords by metro.
Sources
Figures are for the metropolitan statistical area unless noted. Business counts cover locations with paid employees. Data refreshed 2026-10-10.
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