Jackson Building Permit Division (Office of Code Services)
- Phone
- (601) 960-1160
- Hours
- Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. CT
Mississippi
Jackson, MS permit fees and requirements
Jackson's Office of Code Services, on the third floor of the Warren Hood Building at 200 S.
President Street, issues building, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, gas, fence and demolition permits through the City's OpenGov portal. Under Code of Ordinances Sec. 26-2, permit fees are 'established by the adopted schedule of fees', and that adopted schedule is not published online: the City's permit pages, the municipal code and the OpenGov portal (whose application forms open only to signed-in users) state no amounts. Fees are quoted during review and collected when the permit is issued — the portal notifies applicants when payment is due, and the division can be reached at (601) 960-1160. These pages describe the process, the permit catalogue and what drives the final amount, and state the absence plainly rather than inventing numbers.
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 Jackson permit fee with our Building Permit Fee Calculator.
| Permit | Category | Last reviewed |
|---|---|---|
| Jackson Building Permit Cost | structural | 2026-09-26 |
| Jackson Electrical Permit Cost | electrical | 2026-09-26 |
| Jackson Plumbing Permit Cost | plumbing | 2026-09-26 |
Local context
What is specific to Jackson
Jackson is Mississippi's capital and largest city, anchoring a permitting landscape that spans Hinds County and neighboring Rankin and Madison counties; work outside city limits goes to the counties or suburban cities (Ridgeland, Flowood, Clinton), each with its own office. Inside Jackson, every application passes intake review at the Warren Hood Building before routing to zoning, floodplain, historic preservation and plan review — the city's substantial historic districts make the preservation routing common.
The fee absence matters for budgeting: Jackson is one of the few large Mississippi cities with no public fee schedule, so applicants budget from the division's quote rather than from a table. This site records that absence and directs readers to the division, rather than estimating from third-party figures that no official source corroborates.
Valuation
How valuation is determined here
Not publishable: the adopted schedule that Sec. 26-2 defers to is not public, so the basis the City prices permits on is stated only inside that schedule. No valuation table is asserted here.
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
Because no fee amounts are modelled for Jackson, there is nothing to add to or subtract from. For orientation, items that typically ride a Jackson permit but appear in no public schedule here include:
- Mechanical (HVAC) and gas permits, separate single-issue trade permits.
- Water and sewer connection charges billed by the City's water/sewer utility.
- Hinds County and state permits — septic systems, driveways, rights-of-way.
- Impact or development fees adopted separately from the permit fee schedule.
These are listed to frame the division's quote, not priced.
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.
- Permit portalCityPrimary source
City of Jackson Building Permitting portal (OpenGov)
The application channel. Lists Residential Building, Commercial Building, Demolition/Moving, Electrical, Fence, Gas, Mechanical, Plumbing, POD, generator and related permit types with their scope descriptions (quoted on the pages). Every 'Apply Online' action routes to the Viewpoint Cloud sign-in, so fees are visible only after authentication; the payment step happens after review ('you will receive notification to pay your permit fee').
- Municipal codeCityPrimary source
Jackson Code of Ordinances, Ch. 26 (Buildings and Building Regulations), Sec. 26-2 — Permit, fee
Sec. 26-2: 'The permit fee for work requiring a permit shall be established by the adopted schedule of fees. The adopted schedule of fees shall govern.' (Ord. No. 2019-30(9), eff. 2019-03-05.) The code defers to the adopted schedule without reproducing it, and no appendix of the Municode consolidation publishes one.
- City websiteCityPrimary source
Office of Code Services — Building Permits
Describes the building-permit process and the Warren Hood Building permit counter. Publishes no fee amounts — this page and the OpenGov portal are the City's complete public permitting material, and neither states a fee.
- City websiteCityPrimary source
Residential Building and Permits
Residential permitting guidance. Publishes no fee amounts.