Mobile County, Alabama
The Mobile County is a county located in the U.S. state of Alabama. In the census in 2010, the County had 412 992 inhabitants and a population density of 129.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is mobile.
Geography
The County is located in the extreme southwest of Alabama at the mouth of the Mobile River in Mobile Bay, part of the Gulf of Mexico, which limits the County in the south. It has an area of 4,258 square kilometers, of which 1,064 square kilometers of water surfaces. At the Mobile County borders the following counties:
Botany in the County
In Theodore, the historic Bellingrath Gardens and Home, a 26 -acre botanical garden is located. The garden is located on the Fowl River, and was taken on October 19, 1982 in the archives of the NRHP with the number 82,001,609.
Another botanical garden of the county is located in Mobile, the county seat. This is the Mobile Botanical Gardens, with an area of 404 656 m².
History
The area of present-day Mobile County belonged to France from 1702 to 1763, then to 1780 for the UK and 1780-1813 for Spain.
The Mobile County was on December 18, 1812 by proclamation by David Holmes, the former governor of Mississippi - formed territory.
The courthouse was 1832, 1840 and 1872 respectively destroyed by fire.
Demographic data
1900-1990 2000 2010
According to the census in 2010 lived in Mobile County 412 992 people in 155 657 households. The population density was 129.3 inhabitants per square kilometer.
The racial the population was composed of 60.2 percent white, 34.6 percent African American, 0.9 percent Native American, 1.8 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 2.4 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
In the 155 657 households lived statistically 2.55 per person.
25.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, .. percent were between 18 and 64 and 12.9 percent were 65 years or older. 52.0 percent of the population was female.
The median income for a household was $ 39,828. The per capita income was $ 21,274. 18.7 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Places in Mobile County
Citys
- Bayou La Batre
- Chickasaw
- Citronelle
- Creola
- Mobile
- Prichard
- Saraland
- Semmes
Towns
- Dauphin Iceland
- Mount Vernon
Census-designated places (CDP )
- Axis
- Bellefontaine
- Bucks
- Calvert
- Chunchula
- Grand Bay
- Theodore
- Tillmans Corner
Unincorporated communities other
- Alabama Port
- Coden
- Eight Mile
- Remote country
- Heron Bay
- Irvington
- Kushla
- Le Moyne
- Mauvilla
- Mon Louis
- Saint Elmo
- Whistler
- Wilmer
- Akka
- Allenville
- Bayleys Corner
- Chastang
- Cottage Hill
- Country Club Estates
- Country Club Village
- Cox Beach
- Crichton
- Dawes
- Delchamps
- Dixon Corner
- Order
- Faustina
- Forest Hill
- Forest Park
- Fort Gaines
- Fort Stoddard
- Fowl River
- Georgetown
- Hatters
- Jackson Heights
- Laurendine
- Lloyds
- Mackie
- Magazine
- Man
- Mertz
- Millerstown
- Moffet
- Movico
- Navco
- Neely
- Nenemoosha
- Neshota
- North Mobile
- Oak Grove
- Orchard
- Pennsylvania
- Pine Grove
- Pineola
- Plateau
- Salco
- San Souci Beach
- Satsuma
- Seven Hills
- Sibert
- Sidney
- Smithport
- Smithtown
- South Orchard
- Spring Hill
- Summerville
- Sunny Cove
- Tacon
- Tanner Williams
- Toulminville
- Union Church
- Warley
- Wheelerville