Concrete driveway cost in Mississippi (2026 pricing)

How much does a concrete driveway cost in Mississippi?

In North Mississippi, a concrete driveway costs $6.96 to $16.43 per square foot with us. The low end is a plain broom finish with fiber in the mix. The top is stamped, with rebar, a wet-look sealer, and tear-out of an old drive. A 400-square-foot, two-car driveway comes to $3,000 to $7,050, with forms, concrete, finishing, and the cure included. Past the first 40 miles, a drive cost for our trip to you comes on top.

Two things that set the North Mississippi price

Each one moves the number before you ever pick a finish. The first is the damp air. NWS Tupelo records 75 to 85 percent humidity all year, and July heat is hard on a fresh slab. The second is where the soil changes. Tombigbee prairie clay, a sticky clay that swells when it gets wet, runs through Lee, Pontotoc, and Monroe counties. The red clay hills around Oxford and Holly Springs drain better. A bid worth signing should show these three things in writing:

• A 4,000 PSI mix with 4 to 6 percent air per ACI 318
• At least 4 inches of concrete for cars, and 5 to 6 inches for an RV or shop truck
• Packed soil or a crushed rock base on prairie clay lots

For how we build the slab, see Mississippi concrete flatwork. This page sticks to dollars.

What does a driveway cost at each size?

Each total carries the job’s setup, so a small slab lands above the per-foot range. The truck day, the finishing crew, and the forms cost about the same on any size job. So a 240-square-foot pad pays the most per foot. Past about 800 square feet, the price per foot drops toward the low end. Long ranch drives in Pontotoc, Monroe, and Chickasaw counties often price best of all. A straight run has few corners and less edge form to set.

How much more do color, stamping, or exposed stone cost?

The bottom of the range at the top of the page swaps the rebar for micro fiber. That’s why it starts below the broom price here, which includes rebar. Most driveways here get a broom finish. Stamping a drive that has rebar puts it at $12.57 per square foot. The pattern takes extra material and crew hours. Stain has no set line in our price list, so we price it once we’ve seen the slab. Exposed aggregate works well in Starkville, Columbus, and West Point. The rough, stony top hides fine heat cracks. It also holds up to the brine MDOT spreads on the rare icy morning.

What pushes the price up or down?

Size. A bigger slab costs less per foot. The total bill still grows with every foot you add.

Thickness. Most home drives are 4 inches thick. Once you park an RV, a fifth-wheel, a boat trailer, or a work truck on it, go to 5 or 6 inches. The quote tool prices that thickness, with a slider you can move to see the change.

Steel. Our base driveway price includes #4 rebar tied on an 18-inch grid, at $2.12 a square foot. That’s half-inch steel bar laid both ways, and it handles truck loads. On cars and firm ground, you can trade it for welded wire mesh ($0.63), micro fiber ($0.32), or macro fiber ($0.72). Fiber mixes right into the concrete.

Soil. North Mississippi crosses three kinds of ground. Tombigbee prairie clay through Lee, Pontotoc, Monroe, and Lowndes counties swells and shrinks. It usually needs 4 to 8 inches of crushed rock before any concrete goes down. We price that extra fill per job, after we see the lot. The red clay hills in Lafayette, Marshall, and Tippah counties drain much better, though a sloped lot still wants a packed base. Sandy loam pockets in Tate and DeSoto counties need the least fill.

Access. When the truck can chute straight from the street into the forms, the day goes fast. A pour behind the house, up a slope, or on a tight downtown Tupelo or Oxford lot needs a pump truck at $1,780 flat.

How does the price change across North Mississippi?

Our North Mississippi team covers the 662 area code. That runs from Oxford in the west to the Golden Triangle (Starkville, Columbus, and West Point) in the east. Corinth sits up at the Tennessee line, and Grenada marks the south end. Jackson, the Delta, the Pine Belt, and the Gulf Coast are outside that area, and we don’t price driveways there.

Our price per foot on a North Mississippi driveway stays the same from town to town. Three local things make one quote higher or lower than another. First is the soil. Tombigbee prairie clay swells, the Lafayette County red clay hills drain, and sandy loam in Tate and DeSoto counties needs little fixing. Second is the kind of work. Tupelo leans toward homes and small shops. Oxford and Lafayette County are mostly homes near the campus. The Golden Triangle pairs barndominium pads with shop slabs. Third is the drive on any job under 400 square feet, where the trip is a big share of the bill. Saltillo (10 miles), Verona (8 miles), and Pontotoc (15 miles) sit closest to Tupelo. The weather counts too. Humidity runs 75 to 85 percent all year, and our freezes are milder than Missouri’s or Tennessee’s. Even so, every home pour needs air in the mix, the right thickness, and 7 days of moist curing.

What do add-ons cost?

Tear-out catches a lot of homeowners off guard. It’s charged on every foot of the old slab, before the first ready-mix truck shows up. The rate is for a plain 4-inch slab, so a thicker drive, one full of rebar, or an asphalt one can cost more.

Is concrete a better buy than gravel or asphalt?

Count the upkeep, and gravel and pavers run about $0.30 to $0.60 a square foot each year. Asphalt runs about $0.25 to $0.55. Concrete costs more to put in. But it outlasts asphalt and asks for less care. Gravel still wins on a tight day-one budget, which is why it covers so much rural acreage in Pontotoc, Monroe, and Chickasaw counties. Over 25 years, regrading and weed control on a 400-square-foot gravel drive add up to $3,000 to $6,000 in rock hauls and labor.

Pour-4-Polish for bundled driveways

Every pour we do follows the same four steps, one spec from dirt to finish:

1. Set. Stake the corners, build the forms, and pack and grade the soil so water runs off.
2. Portland. Lock in the mix with the plant before the truck rolls.
3. Even. Place the concrete, screed it flat, and bring up the broom or stamp finish evenly across the slab.
4. Cure. Hold the water in while the slab gains strength.

Add a patio, sidewalk, garage slab, or barndo pad to the same trip. Then you pay for one trip and one setup, not two. A 600-square-foot driveway poured with a 400-square-foot patio costs less per foot than the two jobs billed on their own. The Pour-4-Polish process page walks through every step.

How far is the drive to your job?

The first 40 road miles each way are free. Past that, the drive cost grows with each extra mile. Put your address into the online quote tool, and it adds that charge as its own line.

What is included in a driveway quote?

Every bid we send is written out line by line, so you can check each choice.

In the price:

• Layout and form setup
• Grading and packing the soil
• A 4-inch crushed rock base
• #4 rebar, or wire mesh or fiber for less if you swap
• A broom texture on the top
• 4 inches of concrete at 4,000 PSI or better, with 4 to 6 percent air per ACI 318
• Control joints saw-cut every 8 to 10 feet
• Curing compound per ACI 308R
• Pulling the forms and cleaning up
• The trip from our North Mississippi team to your address

Priced as separate lines, so the base stays honest:

• Tearing out an old slab
• Fill past normal soil prep
• Any thickness past 4 inches
• Decorative finishes: stamps, stain, or exposed stone
• Drainage past the edge of the slab
• A pump truck
• City permits

Why do driveway bids come in so far apart?

The mix. When a bid comes in at $4 a foot, the savings usually come from plain 3,000 PSI concrete with no air in the truck. Here, the baseline is 4,000 PSI with 4 to 6 percent air per ACI 318. Skip the air, and the top can start to flake within 5 to 8 winters.

The ground work. Some bids skip packing and checking the soil on Tombigbee prairie clay. Others pour right onto a raw red clay slope in the hills. Either one sets up cracks that show two or three Mississippi summers later.

The cure. Concrete reaches full strength over 28 days, but the first 7 days matter most. A Friday pour left alone over a Mississippi weekend takes a beating from the afternoon heat and the damp nights. The slab shows it within a year.

How to get a quote

Start with the online quote tool. Give it the slab size, the address, the finish you like, and what sits on the ground today. If something about the lot is unusual, we come look at it in person before we give you a number.

Related Mississippi pages

• Mississippi concrete flatwork service covers how we build slabs, walks, and patios across North Mississippi
• Mississippi polished concrete cost
• Mississippi garage floor coating cost for epoxy and polyaspartic coatings on home garages
• Mississippi barndominium slab
• Tupelo and Oxford city pages
• Mississippi state hub
• Pour-4-Polish process from start to finish
• National concrete driveway cost guide