Calvert (Alabama)

Mobile County Washington County

01-11488

Calvert is a census -designated place of Mobile County and Washington County in the U.S. state of Alabama.

Geography

Calvert is located in the extreme southwest of Alabama, 40 kilometers north of Mobile and Mobile Bay. Through the middle of the city carries U.S. Highway 43, in the east flows the Tombigbee River.

Economy

The small town of Calvert gained wide attention when the company Thyssen Krupp built in 2007 for about 4.65 billion U.S. $ (cost after completion) a steel plant for the production of carbon steel and stainless steel on the eastern edge of the city with direct connection to the Tombigbee River, the in the second half of 2010 began operating. The work was to create up to 2700 new jobs and generate more than 3.4 million metric tons of steel per year. Due to declining global demand for steel, however, the plant produces mostly at half capacity, thereby operates at a loss and ThyssenKrupp tries to sell the plant. The plant was purchased in 2013 by a joint venture of competitors ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel, Sumitomo Metal Industries.

Demographic data

In 2010 a population of 277 individuals was determined with a mean age of 40.4 years.