Business phone system for barber shops in Mississippi

How many barber shops operate in Mississippi

County Business Patterns counts 28 establishments in Mississippi classified as Barber Shops (NAICS 812111) for 2023. They employed 114 people in mid-March and reported $3,935,000 in annual payroll. That is the 40th highest count among the 51 states and DC with published figures. Barber shops make up 0.05% of the 60,465 business establishments in the state.

Per 100,000 residents (2024 estimate) Mississippi has 1.0 barber shops, 58.5% below the national rate of 2.3. The average establishment has 4.1 employees against 3.7 nationally. Payroll per employee is $34,518, 2.5% above the U.S. figure of $33,667.

Barber shops by metro area in Mississippi

Census published barber shop counts for 3 metro or micropolitan areas that include part of Mississippi. The largest is Memphis, TN-MS-AR, with 18 establishments (a multi-state area; its count covers every state it spans). Single-state metro and micropolitan areas account for 61% of the statewide total; the rest are outside any published area or in areas Census suppressed.

Team sizes at barber shops in Mississippi

77.8% of Mississippi's barber shops with employees had fewer than five people in March 2023, compared with 75.5% nationally. 88.9% had fewer than ten. That is the size of team where a missed call usually means nobody was free, not that nobody was on staff.

Calls a barber shop in Mississippi has to catch

Barbers are busy with clients all day, and calls for appointments and wait times often go unanswered. Capturing calls and texting back helps fill chairs. That holds for barber shops in Mississippi as much as anywhere.

Calls a barber shop in Mississippi might handle in a typical week include:

• A parent calls to book kids' cuts.
• A client calls to ask about walk-in wait.
• The shop calls a client about a cancellation.

After-hours calls

After-hours calls are mostly booking requests.

Callata voicemail is transcribed and triaged for urgency, and business-hours routing decides where calls go once you close.

Callata vs. per-seat pricing for barber shops in Mississippi

Barber shops in Mississippi average 4.1 employees, so the comparison uses a 4-person team. Priced per seat, 4 users would run $120.00 a month on RingCentral RingEX Core and $99.80 on Ooma Office Pro (month-to-month list prices, checked September 28, 2026). On Callata the same 4 people cost $99.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.

The annual difference against RingCentral's monthly list price comes to $252. Some vendors discount annual contracts; the table shows month-to-month prices.

Area codes in Mississippi

Mississippi has 5 geographic area codes in service according to NANPA. You can choose local numbers in the area codes your clients know, subject to carrier inventory, or port your current number for free.

How Callata works for barber shops in Mississippi

Callata Office costs $99 per month for up to 5 people, and each additional user is $20 a month. That covers up to 3 local numbers, calling from a browser or your cell, transcribed voicemail, recorded calls with AI summaries, after-hours routing and E911 on each number.

If you already have a number in Mississippi, porting it to Callata is free. Texting from a local number requires a one-time carrier registration (10DLC, $49), and the numbers available in any area code depend on carrier inventory when you choose them.

Optional AI agents (receptionist, sales, support or scheduler) can answer calls after hours or when nobody picks up, take messages, text, email and transfer to your team. They are billed from prepaid AI minutes at $0.25 per minute, identify themselves as AI, and may only place outbound calls to people who consented, between 8am and 9pm.