228 Area Code: Gulfport, Mississippi

Coastal Mississippi is served by the 228 area code, with Gulfport as the primary city. Gulfport sits along the Mississippi Sound on a stretch of low-lying coastline between Biloxi and Bay St. Louis, organized around a working port, a substantial gaming corridor that has anchored much of the local economy since the 1990s, and a beachfront that runs along the Gulf. The 228 footprint covers Mississippi's three coastal counties — Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson — taking in Biloxi, Pascagoula, Ocean Springs, and the surrounding cluster of coastal communities.

In records the directory has compiled for 228 numbers, other Mississippi cities — Jackson and Southaven among them — recur frequently. Neither is inside the 228 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics, with phone numbers porting across Mississippi and addresses linked across multiple cities. The directory currently documents 157 distinct prefixes within 228 in detail, a working subset of the prefix population the code carries.

Gulfport's home values come in below the US median, with median household income running well below the national figure. The city's median age sits close to the US reading, and population places Gulfport among the larger cities in coastal Mississippi — substantial enough to anchor a regional economy organized around the port, the gaming corridor, the surrounding shipbuilding and aerospace operations (Pascagoula's shipyards and the Stennis Space Center), and the Keesler Air Force Base presence in Biloxi. The broader 228 footprint runs along the Gulf coast for roughly seventy miles.