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Toilet Repair in Mississippi
Across the 16 Mississippi towns we route calls in, 69% of households own their home and 40% of the housing was built before 1990. The first figure decides who pays for the repair; the second decides what is probably installed.
Short version
Across the 16 Mississippi towns covered here, 69% of households own their home and 40% of the housing was built before 1990. The first figure decides who pays for a toilet repair; the second is about the house rather than the fixture in it.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, tables B25003 and B25034.
The two figures, for Mississippi as a whole
| Mississippi | Share | Homes |
|---|---|---|
| Owner-occupied | 69% | 119,485 |
| Rented | 31% | 53,367 |
Weighted across 172,852 occupied homes. Separately, 40% of the state’s 194,027 housing units — a wider universe, because it includes vacant ones — were built before 1990, which is before the Energy Policy Act of 1992 set a 1.6 gallon flush maximum.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, tables B25003 (tenure) and B25034 (year structure built), 2023 release. Flush volumes: US EPA WaterSense, tank-type toilet supporting statement.
Mississippi does not divide evenly
A state average hides the thing that matters. Of the 16 towns we route in here, 0 are mostly pre-1990 housing and 12 are mostly post-1990 housing; on tenure, 7 are strongly owner-occupied and 1 are renter-heavy.
The two are close to independent of each other, so an old town is not reliably an owning town or a renting one. That is why every town page below carries its own pair of figures rather than inheriting these.
The largest towns we route in Mississippi
| Town | Owner-occupied | Built before 1990 | Occupied homes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gulfport | 58% | 47% | 36,959 |
| Biloxi | 54% | 47% | 25,645 |
| Olive Branch | 85% | 21% | 20,757 |
| Southaven | 71% | 36% | 19,703 |
| Hernando | 88% | 32% | 11,287 |
| Horn Lake | 59% | 50% | 9,913 |
| Long Beach | 68% | 57% | 7,325 |
| Bay Saint Louis | 74% | 40% | 7,002 |
What goes wrong, wherever you are in Mississippi
The fault list does not vary by state. A running tank is the flapper or the fill valve, and EPA publishes a ten-minute test that tells them apart. Water at the base is four different faults, one of which is condensation and not a leak at all. A fixture that rocks is the one that causes the seal failure you will meet later.
What varies by town is who fixes it. In a rented home the toilet is normally the landlord’s repair, and in the towns above that is a large share of households.
Checking a plumber in Mississippi
Checking a credential in Mississippi
Mississippi licenses are issued by the Mississippi State Board of Contractors, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins. Mississippi licenses residential and commercial plumbing contractors; individual journeymen are not state-licensed.
Towns we route in Mississippi
- Bay Saint Louis 74% owner-occupied · 40% pre-1990
- Biloxi 54% owner-occupied · 47% pre-1990
- Byhalia 76% owner-occupied · 37% pre-1990
- Diamondhead 89% owner-occupied · 37% pre-1990
- Diberville 56% owner-occupied · 31% pre-1990
- Gulfport 58% owner-occupied · 47% pre-1990
- Hernando 88% owner-occupied · 32% pre-1990
- Horn Lake 59% owner-occupied · 50% pre-1990
- Kiln 90% owner-occupied · 40% pre-1990
- Long Beach 68% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
- Nesbit 92% owner-occupied · 30% pre-1990
- Olive Branch 85% owner-occupied · 21% pre-1990
- Pass Christian 83% owner-occupied · 36% pre-1990
- Saucier 85% owner-occupied · 34% pre-1990
- Southaven 71% owner-occupied · 36% pre-1990
- Waveland 60% owner-occupied · 30% pre-1990
If the dye test pointed at the flapper, that is a part, not a fixture.Worth saying on the call, because it changes what somebody arrives with. We connect you to a contractor covering your area and you are never charged. Toilets head this site, but any plumbing job is welcome.
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