Calvert is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mobile and Washington counties, Alabama, United States. It is located in the extreme northeast corner of Mobile County and southeast corner of Washington County near the Tombigbee River, along U.S. Route 43. As of the 2020 census, the population of Calvert was 255.
Demographics
Calvert was first listed as a census designated place in the 2010 U.S. census.
+Calvert CDP, Alabama – Racial and ethnic compositionRace / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic)Pop 2010Pop 2020% 2010% 2020White alone (NH)14615652.71%61.18%Black or African American alone (NH)986235.38%24.31%Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)18286.50%10.98%Asian alone (NH)000.00%0.00%Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone (NH)000.00%0.00%Other race alone (NH)200.72%0.00%Mixed race or Multiracial (NH)772.53%2.75%Hispanic or Latino (any race)622.17%0.78%Total277255 100.00%100.00%
2020 census
Education Residents of the Mobile County section are zoned to Mobile County Public School System campuses."2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Calvert CDP, AL." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on November 27, 2018. Residents of that section are zoned to Citronelle High School."Citronelle High School Attendance Zone ." Mobile County Public School System. Retrieved on November 27, 2018. The Mobile County section of the community was formerly in the attendance boundary of the Belsaw/MT. Vernon K-8 school in Mount Vernon,A copy of the school's attendance boundary, as the file "Belsaw Mt. Vernon.pdf", is available from the Mobile County Public School System Student Support Services Department. This file was previously available online (see "Elementary Attendance Zone Maps(A-I)" "Belsaw Mt Vernon" but the link is broken) which closed in 2016.
Residents of the Washington County section are served by Washington County School District.
Industry German technology conglomerate ThyssenKrupp broke ground on a US$4.65 billion stainless and carbon steel processing facility in Calvert in 2007. The facility became operational in July 2010.Cloos, Paul. Mobile County wins ThyssenKrupp plant Press-Register May 11, 2007. ThyssenKrupp's stainless steel division, Inoxum, including the stainless portion of the Calvert plant, was sold to Finnish stainless steel company Outokumpu in 2012. The remaining portion of the ThyssenKrupp plant, with a production capacity of 5.3 million metric tons that includes a hot strip mill, cold roll mill and four coating lines, was purchased by a 50/50 joint partnership of ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel in February 2014 for $1.5 billion and renamed AM/NS Calvert. At the time, ThyssenKrupp was the region's 2nd largest industrial employer.
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