The Mobile Metropolitan Area comprises Mobile in the southwest corner of Alabama in the United States. As of the 2020 census the metropolitan area had a population of 430,197. The Mobile metropolitan area is the third-largest metropolitan area in the state of Alabama, after Birmingham and Huntsville.
Washington County was part of the Mobile metropolitan area but was removed when the OMB released its statistical definitions effective July 2023.
The Mobile Metropolitan Area and Daphne–Fairhope–Foley Metropolitan Area, which comprises all of Baldwin County, together make up the Mobile–Daphne–Fairhope Combined Statistical Area, with a population in 2020 of 661,964.
Year Mobile MSA Daphne–Fairhope–Foley MSA Total 2000 Census 399,843 140,415 540,258 2010 Census 412,992 182,265 595,257 2020 Census 430,197 231,767 661,964
Counties Mobile–Daphne–Fairhope combined statistical area Mobile metropolitan area Mobile County Daphne–Fairhope–Foley metropolitan area Baldwin County
Mobile Metropolitan Area Mobile County communities Places with more than 150,000 inhabitants Mobile (principal city)
Places with 10,000 to 35,000 inhabitants Prichard Saraland Tillmans Corner (unincorporated)
Places with 1,000 to 10,000 inhabitants
Bayou La Batre Chickasaw Citronelle Creola Dauphin Island Grand Bay Satsuma Semmes Theodore Mount Vernon
Unincorporated places
Alabama Port Axis Bucks Calvert Chunchula Coden Eight Mile Fernland Irvington Kushla Le Moyne Mauvilla Mon Louis St. Elmo Whistler
Daphne–Fairhope–Foley Metropolitan Area Baldwin County communities Places with more than 25,000 inhabitants Daphne
Places with 10,000 to 25,000 inhabitants Fairhope Foley Gulf Shores Spanish Fort
Places with 1,000 to 10,000 inhabitants
Bay Minette Orange Beach Robertsdale Loxley Elberta Point Clear Summerdale
Other communities
Bon Secour Lillian Magnolia Springs Perdido Perdido Beach Silverhill Stapleton Stockton
Transportation Interstate 10 (Which connects with Los Angeles and Jacksonville) Interstate 65 (Which connects to Chicago) Interstate 165 U.S. Highway 31 U.S. Highway 43 U.S. Highway 45 U.S. Highway 90 U.S. Highway 98
See also Alabama statistical areas
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