Gulfport Building Code Services
- Phone
- (228) 868-5790
- Hours
- Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. CT
Mississippi
Gulfport, MS permit fees and requirements
Gulfport's Urban Development Department — Building Code Services
at 1410 24th Avenue, issues building, electrical, plumbing and mechanical permits. Every schedule opens with a $30.00 base permit fee. Building permits then follow a valuation ladder: $24.00 for the first $1,000 plus $4.00 per additional $1,000 or fraction thereof to $500,001, and $2,020.00 plus $3.20 per additional $1,000 or fraction above that. Electrical permits price the service by amperage ($10.00 up to 100 A through $50.00 at 700–800 A, then $2.00 per additional ampere), feeder circuits by their own ladder, and $6.00 per branch circuit, plus an appliance price list. Plumbing permits follow the fixture list: $5.00 per standard fixture, $7.00 lavatories and floor drains, $10.00 water heaters, the $50.00 water connection and $15.00 backflow preventers. The two trade schedules carry FY 2002 dates, which the pages state plainly.
Permit costs we have worked out
Each page shows the fee components, the formula the jurisdiction uses, and a worked example you can follow by hand.
Estimate your potential Gulfport permit fee with our Building Permit Fee Calculator.
| Permit | Category | Last reviewed |
|---|---|---|
| Gulfport Building Permit Cost | structural | 2026-09-26 |
| Gulfport Electrical Permit Cost | electrical | 2026-09-26 |
| Gulfport Plumbing Permit Cost | plumbing | 2026-09-26 |
Local context
What is specific to Gulfport
Gulfport is the largest city on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and anchors Harrison County's permitting landscape: Building Code Services permits everything inside city limits, while Harrison County and neighboring cities (Biloxi, Long Beach, D'Iberville) run their own offices for work outside it. Coastal work here carries floodplain obligations — the department publishes flood-protection guidance alongside its permit applications, and substantial-improvement rules can apply to repairs in the special flood hazard area.
The department's document center hosts the fee schedules as PDFs linked from its own Building Code Services page, which is where this site's figures come from. The electrical and plumbing schedules are FY 2002 documents; the building schedule is undated but carries the same $30.00 base-fee structure.
Valuation
How valuation is determined here
Building permit fees are computed from total project valuation on the schedule's ladder. The valuation is the declared cost of the work; the printed table runs from $0 to beyond $500,001 in $1,000 bands, each band's fee rising $4.00.
Who to contact
The office that issues the permit, with the details we have verified. Confirm current hours before travelling.
What these fees do not include
The list is not a disclaimer: on a new house the fees left out can outweigh the permit fee several times over. Every entry here is stated on the permit page as well.
Not included in our estimates
These figures cover City of Gulfport building, electrical and plumbing permit fees only. They exclude:
- Mechanical (HVAC) and gas permits, priced on the department's separate mechanical schedule.
- Water and sewer tap and impact fees charged by the City's Water Services and other utilities.
- Harrison County and state permits — septic systems, driveways and state-right-of-way work.
- Floodplain development permits and elevation certificates where coastal flood rules apply.
- Sign permits issued under the department's separate sign application.
Official sources for this jurisdiction
The documents these figures are transcribed from. Where a source contradicts itself we keep both readings and say so on the permit page.
- Fee schedule (PDF)CityPrimary source
City of Gulfport — Building Permit Fee Schedule (BUILDING-PERMIT-FEES.pdf)
Undated schedule: $30.00 base fee plus a ~100-row valuation ladder ($24 for the first $1,000, +$4 per additional $1,000 or fraction to $500,001) and a closing prose rule for the top band ($2,020 for the first $500,000 + $3.20 per additional $1,000 or fraction). Table and prose agree arithmetically; read with pdftotext -layout from the department's own document center.
- Fee schedule (PDF)CityPrimary source
City of Gulfport — Electrical Permit Fee Schedule, FY 2002 (ElecPermitFeeSchedule2002.pdf)
Column headed 'Type of Permit FY 2002 Permit Fee': $30.00 base fee; service-entrance ladder by amperage; feeder-circuit ladder; distribution/sub-panel at $0.25 per ampere (banded ranges that are the same rate expressed as endpoints); $6.00 per branch circuit; appliance-circuit price list; motor, generator/transformer, sign and miscellaneous rows. Dated honestly — the department's page links it as its current electrical fee schedule.
- Fee schedule (PDF)CityPrimary source
City of Gulfport — Plumbing Permit Fee Schedule, FY 2002 (PlumbingPermitFeeSchedule2002.pdf)
Column headed 'Type of Permit FY 2002 Permit Fee': $30.00 base fee plus a fixture price list — $5.00 generic fixtures, $7.00 lavatories and floor drains ($10.00 with trap primer), $10.00 water heaters and heating appliances, $50.00 water connection, $25.00 other connections, $15.00 backflow preventer, sprinkler heads $10.00 for 1–5 + $2.00 each additional. Layout garbles a few row/column pairs in extraction; each pair was re-checked against the PDF structure before transcription.
- City websiteCityPrimary source
Urban Development — Building Code Services department page
Department page linking the three fee-schedule PDFs and the trade permit applications; names the department, address, phone and contact. Note: mygulfport.us is Gulfport, Florida — all Gulfport MS material lives on gulfport-ms.gov.