Concrete patio cost in Gulfport, MS

Climate in Gulfport: timing your concrete patio job

We use NOAA's 1991-2020 climate normals for Gulfport - Biloxi Ap (in the city). These are 30-year monthly averages, not forecasts.

September through June is the stretch where pouring concrete runs into the fewest weather problems in Gulfport (10 of 12 months). July and August have an average daytime high of 90°F or more.

Heat matters for concrete as well. With average highs of 90°F or more in July and August, crews often start early, wet the base and plan for faster set times.

Gulfport gets about 63 inches of precipitation in a normal year. The wettest months are June, July and August (7.2 inches in July). Inside the workable window, October and November are the driest, at 3.7 and 4.0 inches. The station averages about 69 days a year at 90°F or above.

Does the season change the price? Probably, but we do not have a sourced seasonal price curve, so the estimator shows a year-round figure and does not adjust by month. When you collect quotes, ask whether scheduling in a slower month gets a better rate.

How Gulfport compares

Same job, same size (300 sq ft), priced for the nearest metros. New Orleans is the priciest of the group at $2,350.

Across 300 US metros, Gulfport comes in at #290 from the top. The priciest is Kahului, HI at $3,800; the cheapest is McAllen, TX at $2,100 (midpoints, 300 sq ft). Statewide, Gulfport is 2% below the Mississippi figure.

Other Mississippi metros

Cities with a workforce like Gulfport's

Big cities and small ones price differently, so here is Gulfport against the 4 metros with the closest total employment.

Gulfport labor market for concrete patio

Wages are the part of this estimate that changes most from town to town. 4 trades carry the job here, and each is compared with its US median. The weighted result for Gulfport is 0.74 times the national level.

For cement masons and concrete finishers (47-2051, weighted 50%) the local median is $18.30 an hour, which is 33% below the national $27.41. The middle half of them earn between $17.02 and $23.04 an hour. BLS counts 100 of them working in the area, 6.3 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 13.3), so the local bench is thinner than average.

Construction laborers (47-2061), 30% of the weighting: a median of $18.69 an hour, 18% below the US median of $22.66. The middle half of them earn between $16.86 and $22.67 an hour. About 1,090 work in the metro. That is 68.9 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 70.5 nationally, so the supply of crews looks typical.

For carpenters (47-2031, weighted 10%) the local median is $23.78 an hour, which is 18% below the national $29.12. The middle half of them earn between $21.51 and $25.23 an hour. BLS counts 530 of them working in the area, 33.5 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 43.1), so the local bench is thinner than average.

For operating engineers and other construction equipment operators (47-2073, weighted 10%) the local median is $23.42 an hour, which is 19% below the national $28.78. The middle half of them earn between $19.05 and $27.50 an hour. BLS counts 510 of them working in the area, 32.2 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 30.7), so the local bench is about average.

Quotes come from real crews, not medians. If the cement masons and concrete finishers on your job are paid at the 75th percentile ($23.04 an hour) instead of the median, the labor line grows by about $120. At the 25th percentile ($17.02) it shrinks by about $30. The total moves by 5.3% or 1.4%, so wages alone rarely explain a quote that is far outside our range.

For context on the local economy, BLS counts 158,310 jobs in the Gulfport-Biloxi area. That makes it the 149th largest of the 300 metros we cover, with 0.10% of US employment.

Pick a size, pick a tier: concrete patio pricing in Gulfport

Three bands are cut from the same cited range and localized for Gulfport wages and prices. They overlap on purpose: a good standard job and a modest premium job can cost the same. The grid below prices the same bands at 3 common sizes.

Specs and site conditions that change a Gulfport bid

• Finish

  Plain concrete is $4-$12 per sq ft and a broom finish $6-$13; designs with several colors and decorative finishes run up to about $28 (HomeGuide).

• Site prep

  Excavation, forms and a gravel base are the unglamorous part of the bill and vary most with soil and slope.

• Size

  Small patios carry fixed costs for forms and mobilization, so the per-square-foot price drops as the patio gets bigger.

Related projects, priced for Gulfport

Because every project leans on different trades, Gulfport's wage level does not move all prices equally. Against the US midpoint, asphalt driveway runs −9% and concrete driveway −19%.

Optional extras in Gulfport

Extras are quoted nationally and then scaled to Gulfport by the average of the local wage index (0.74) and goods index (0.96), a factor of 0.85. Tick any of them in the estimator above to add them to your total. Treat these as planning figures: an add-on touches different trades than the main job, so the scaling is an approximation.