Moving to Mobile, Alabama

About Mobile, Alabama
Mobile

Mobile ( moh-BEEL, French: [mɔbil] ) is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States. The population was 187,041 at the 2020 census. After a successful vote to annex areas west of the city limits in July 2023, Mobile's population increased to 204,689 residents, making it the second-most populous city in Alabama. Mobile is the principal municipality of the Mobile metropolitan area.

Alabama's only saltwater port, Mobile is located on the Mobile River at the head of Mobile Bay on the north-central Gulf Coast. The Port of Mobile has always played a key role in the economic health of the city, beginning with the settlement as an important trading center between the French colonists and Native Americans, down to its current role as the 12th-largest port in the United States. During the American Civil War, the city surrendered to Federal forces on April 12, 1865, after Union victories at two forts protecting the city.

Considered one of the Gulf Coast's cultural centers, Mobile has several art museums, a symphony orchestra, professional opera, professional ballet company, and a large concentration of historic architecture. Mobile is known for having the oldest organized Carnival or Mardi Gras celebrations in the United States. Alabama's French Creole population celebrated this festival from the first decade of the 18th century. Beginning in 1830, Mobile was host to the first formally organized Carnival mystic society to celebrate with a parade in the United States. (In New Orleans, such a group is called a krewe.)

Gender
Gender Mobile Alabama Country
Female 53% 51.7% 50.8%
Male 47% 48.3% 49.2%
Gender
Created with Raphaël 2.2.053%47%Female53%

 Female Male
Household Income
Created with Raphaël 2.2.011%6%14%11%14%17%10%10%4%4%$50K to $75K16.9%

 < $10000 $10K to $15K $15K to $25K $25K to $35K $35K to $50K $50K to $75K $75K to $100K $100K to $150K $150K to $200K $200K or more

Income Mobile Alabama Country
Less than $10,000 10.8% 8.1% 5.8%
$10,000 to $14,999 6.1% 5.6% 4.1%
$15,000 to $24,999 13.5% 10.9% 8.5%
$25,000 to $34,999 11% 10.5% 8.6%
$35,000 to $49,999 14.2% 13.2% 12.0%
$50,000 to $74,999 16.9% 17.5% 17.2%
$75,000 to $99,999 10% 11.8% 12.8%
$100,000 to $149,999 10.2% 13.1% 15.6%
$150,000 to $199,999 3.5% 4.9% 7.1%
$200,000 or more 3.8% 4.4% 8.3%
Education
Created with Raphaël 2.2.03%8%29%21%8%20%8%2%1%High School or GED29%

 < 9th Grade 9-12th Grade High School or GED Other College Associate Degree Bachelor Degree Masters Degree Professional Degree Doctorate Degree

Education Mobile Alabama Country
< 9th Grade 3% 4% 5.0%
9-12th Grade 8% 9% 7.0%
High School or GED 29% 30% 27.0%
Other College 21% 22% 20.0%
Associate's Degree 8% 9% 9%
Bachelor's Degree 20% 16% 20.0%
Master's Degree 8% 7% 9.0%
Professional Degree 2% 2% 2.0%
Doctorate Degree 1% 1% 1.0%
Household Income
 Mobile Alabama  Country
Created with Raphaël 2.2.005101520>$200K$150K$200K$100K$150K$75K$100K$50K$75K$35K$50K$25K$35K$15K$25K$10K$15K<$10K10.88.15.86.15.64.113.510.98.51110.58.614.213.21216.917.517.21011.812.810.213.115.63.54.97.13.84.48.3
Education
 Mobile Alabama  Country
Created with Raphaël 2.2.007.51522.530Dr.DegreeProf.DegreeMastersDegreeBachelorDegreeAssociateDegreeOtherCollegeHighSchool9-12thGrade< 9thGrade345897293027212220899201620879222111
Race / Ethnicity
Created with Raphaël 2.2.042%51%0%2%3%0%2%0%African American50.9%

 White African American American Indian Asian Hispanic Hawaiian Mixed Other

Ethnicity Mobile Alabama Country
White 42.1% 65.2% 60.1%
African American 50.9% 26.4% 12.2%
American Indian 0.3% 0.4% 0.6%
Asian 1.8% 1.4% 5.6%
Hawaiian 0% 0% 0.2%
Other 0.3% 0.2% 0.3%
Multiracial 1.9% 1.9% 2.8%
Hispanic 2.7% 4.4% 18.2%
Race / Ethnicity
 Mobile Alabama  Country
Created with Raphaël 2.2.0017.53552.570Hispanic2 or More$OthersHawaiianAsianAmericanIndianAfricanAmericanWhite42.165.260.150.926.412.20.30.40.61.81.45.6000.20.30.20.31.91.92.82.74.418.2