Mississippi electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
16.16¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$2.67
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly.
How Mississippi compares
At 16.16¢ per kWh, Mississippi is below the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 23rd cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Mississippi household uses
Electricity a month
1,160 kWh
Bill a month
$169
Households in Mississippi use 35% more electricity than the national average and pay 13% more than average. Cheap power absorbs most of that: the meter turns faster here, but at 16.16¢ each unit costs less than it does nationally. Cooling explains most of it: Mississippi runs about 2,400 cooling degree days a year against 2,300 heating ones, so summer, not winter, sets the bill.
Averaged over twelve months across 1,359,707 residential accounts in Mississippi. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Mississippi sees around 40 freezing nights a year. Whether a heat pump beats a furnace here depends on the gap between those two prices above — not on the equipment.
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