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The Pascagoula handbook

Living in Pascagoula, MS: what to set up and who to call

Most mail in Pascagoula goes to 39581 (52% of residents), one of 2 ZIP codes in town. Pascagoula has its own train station.

I’m new in town

What to set up in Pascagoula, and who provides it. Tap an answer for the details and where they come from.

Home services

Power, water and internet

Who to call to start service at a new address in Pascagoula.

Electricity

Power comes from Mississippi Power

Mississippi Power (Mississippi Power Co), an investor-owned utility, serves all of Pascagoula. Its homes paid an average of 15.7¢ per kWh in 2025, about $179 a month (its average across Mississippi).

Service territory: HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (map dated Aug 2023). Prices and customers: EIA-861, 2025.

Drinking water · reported to EPA

Water comes from City of Pascagoula water system

The City of Pascagoula water system supplies Pascagoula: about 66% of residents live in its service area. Jackson Co Utility Authority-West serves another 24%. About 10% of homes are outside any mapped community water system, most likely on private wells, which EPA doesn’t regulate. It draws ground water and serves 22,686 people in all.

No health-based violations reported to EPA in the five years to October 2026, like 83% of the 3,525 systems serving 10,001–50,000 people.

Lead, 90th percentile1.2 ppb
015 ppb action level20

The latest lead result on file, the 90th percentile of homes sampled in Jan 2023–Dec 2025, was 1.2 ppb, below the 15 ppb action level that applied. The highest in five years was 1.3 ppb. That’s higher than 51% of similar systems’ latest results.

The system’s full record: EPA ECHO report

EPA SDWIS via Envirofacts (violations pulled Oct 9, 2026) and ECHO (lead samples, 2026Q3); service area: EPA Community Water System Service Area Boundaries v3.0. Violations are counted by the start of their compliance period. MS0300006.

Internet

5 home internet providers serve Pascagoula

100% of 8,014 addresses can get 100/20 Mbps; 66% can get fiber.

ProviderTechnologyAddressesFastest (Mbps)
SparklightCable99%1,000/50
AT&TDSL, Fiber, Fixed wireless88%5,000/5,000
C SpireFiber, Fixed wireless54%8,000/8,000
VerizonFixed wireless48%300/20
T-MobileFixed wireless16%100/20

FCC National Broadband Map, as of December 2025. Availability as providers report it, not speeds people get.

Trash & recycling

Trash day in Pascagoula is any weekday, depending on your street

Pickup days, the drop-off and recycling in Pascagoula, from the town’s own site.

How trash works hereTown’s haulerWaste Pro picks up at the curb for every homecityofpascagoula.com
Trash dayAny weekdayDepends on your addressLook up your day on cityofpascagoula.com →
Pickup

Your pickup week

What goes in the recycling bin

Accepted at the curb

  • Newspapers
  • Aluminum and tin cans
  • Cardboard
  • Mail and writing paper
  • Chipboard, such as cereal boxes
  • Catalogs and telephone books
  • Magazines
Furniture, appliances and bulky itemsYard debris and bulky items picked up curbside with the garbage route, limited to 8' in length; large piles may be picked up in parts on later collection days
What can be recycledThe town’s recycling pagecityofpascagoula.com →

From cityofpascagoula.com, the town’s official site, checked Oct 21, 2026. Rules change: the town’s page is the last word. .

Schools

Where your child goes to school

Public school districts and the school path by grade.

Pascagoula kids go to
K–48 elementary schoolsDepends on your address
5–122 schoolsDepends on your address

Pascagoula is in Pascagoula-Gautier School District.

B+School gradeSee Schools →

U.S. Department of Education, NCES Common Core of Data, 2024–25. Enrollment rules and registration are the district’s.

Government & voting

Town hall and registering to vote

Who to call, and how to register.

Election office: FVAP local election office directory, updated Sep 2023; jurisdictions: EAC EAVS 2024. Registration rules and links: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.

ZIP codes & area codes

Pascagoula spans 2 ZIP codes

ZIP codes where Pascagoula residents live, with the share of the town in each.

ZIPPost office nameShare of PascagoulaZIP’s residents in Pascagoula
39581Pascagoula, MS52%100%
39567Pascagoula, MS47%100%

A few homes fall in 39563, 39595. 39568, 39569 are P.O. box or single-organization ZIPs with no homes.

Area code228Wikidata

Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, by census block; post office names: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). ZIPs created since 2020 are missing.

Everyday places

Getting around, the ER and the library

One line each; the subject pages have the rest.

Train: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors). ER: CMS hospital data. Library: IMLS Public Libraries Survey, FY2024.

Questions about living in Pascagoula

Who supplies Pascagoula’s drinking water, and has it had violations?

The City of Pascagoula water system (EPA ID MS0300006). It reported no health-based violations to EPA in the five years to October 2026; 83% of systems its size had none. Its latest lead 90th percentile was 1.2 ppb (Jan 2023–Dec 2025), against a 15 ppb action level.

Who provides electricity in Pascagoula?

Mississippi Power (Mississippi Power Co), an investor-owned utility. Its homes paid about 15.7¢ per kWh in 2025 (EIA).

What internet providers serve Pascagoula?

Sparklight, AT&T, C Spire, Verizon, T-Mobile (FCC, as of December 2025).

What ZIP codes are in Pascagoula?

39581 (52%), 39567 (47%), by share of residents. Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas.

What school district is Pascagoula in?

Pascagoula-Gautier School District.

How do I register to vote in Pascagoula?

Mississippi has no online registration; you can register in person until 30 days before Election Day or by mail (postmarked 30 days before). Elections here are run by the Jackson County Registrar. Check your registration at msegov.com.

Sources & dates

Every answer above names its source. Here they are with their dates.

  • Water: EPA SDWIS (Envirofacts, pulled Oct 9, 2026), ECHO SDWA 2026Q3, EPA CWS Service Area Boundaries v3.0.
  • Power: HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (map Aug 2023); EIA-861 final 2025.
  • Trash: Pascagoula’s own website (cityofpascagoula.com), read Oct 21, 2026, pickup and drop-off facts extracted and checked against the page they came from.
  • ZIP codes: Census 2020 ZCTA relationship files; GeoNames postal codes (CC BY 4.0).
  • Schools: NCES Common Core of Data, 2024–25.
  • Registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024 (read Oct 10, 2026). Official sites and area codes: Wikidata.
  • Election office: FVAP local election office directory (fetched Oct 10, 2026; each record dated), EAC EAVS 2024 jurisdictions; registration and lookup links from vote.gov’s state data, checked Oct 10, 2026.
  • Internet: FCC National Broadband Map, as of December 2025.