Mobile County, Alabama

• White (non-Hispanic) 226,154 54.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 14,244 3.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 147,473 35.7%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 8,873 2.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 12,456 3.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 1,373 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 119 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,898 0.5%

• Under 18 96,039 23.3%
• 18–24 36,067 8.7%
• 25–44 108,081 26.2%
• 45–64 100,840 24.4%
• 65 and over 71,563 17.3%

Median household income

$60,321

90% interval $57,356–$63,286

−$6,383 vs AL · 26th of 67

Below poverty line

16.7%

90% interval 14.6%–18.8%

+1.5 pp vs AL · 44th of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.8%

+0.89 pp vs. state

County GDP

$30.1B

9.26% of state

Avg. annual pay

$63,774

Establishments

12,498

• Education & health services 42,932 24.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 39,484 22.6%
• Professional & business services 20,133 11.5%
• Manufacturing 18,548 10.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 17,645 10.1%
• Construction 12,825 7.3%
• Financial activities 7,430 4.2%
• Public administration 7,388 4.2%
• Other services 5,610 3.2%
• Information 1,761 1.0%
• Natural resources & mining 1,044 0.6%
• Unclassified 28 0.0%

Home ownership

66.0%

−4.2 pp vs AL · 56th of 67

Median gross rent

$1,052

+$45 vs AL · 10th of 67

Owner-occupied

106,752

Renter-occupied

54,913

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 59% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $92,421/yr) pays 3.9× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $23,862/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 14 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 100,759 57.7%
• Democratic 72,055 41.3%
• Other / third-party 1,731 1.0%

• Spanish 8,215 2.1%
• Vietnamese 3,064 0.8%
• Chinese 1,157 0.3%
• Arabic 1,135 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 589 0.2%
• Tagalog 532 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 490 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 386 0.1%
• Korean 276 0.1%

Households

161,665

Family households

101,739

62.9% of households

Married couples w/ children

24,140

23.7% of families

Single-mother families

13,430

13.2% of families

Veterans

24,214

7.7% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 173,162 41.7%
• Black Protestant 49,799 12.0%
• Catholic 44,257 10.7%
• Mainline Protestant 24,301 5.9%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 10,782 2.6%
• Orthodox 405 0.1%

Health insured

89.6%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

10.4%

±0.6 pp

17th of 67

With a disability

14.5%

±0.4 pp

62nd of 67

Bachelor's or higher

26.0%

±0.8 pp

−2.4 pp vs AL · 12th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.8%

90% interval 9.0%–10.6% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

Trial court

13th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

11 (Circuit Court judges per circuit (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction); District Court judges (limited jurisdiction) separate. Vintage 2026 alacourt.gov; counts for the 34th, 36th, and 41st circuits are approximate (single-county rural circuits typically carry 1 judge per Ala. Code § 12-17-23).)

Court seats

Mobile

Traffic fatalities

74

23.38 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

66

Contract, ejectment and seizure was the largest civil litigation category, at 26.9% of 3,442 filings. Motor-vehicle negligence ranked #3 at 18.7%.

• Contract, ejectment and seizure 926 26.9%
• Account collection 703 20.4%
• Motor-vehicle negligence 645 18.7%
• Other civil 275 8.0%
• Negligence, general 192 5.6%
• Equity, non-damage 151 4.4%

A further 236 filings in this division were protective orders, forfeitures or other non-litigation matters, and are excluded from these shares.