Mobile’s public transportation is the Wave Transit System which features buses with 18 fixed routes and neighborhood service. MCPSS has an enrollment of approximately 52,000 students at 92 schools, employs approximately 7,200 public school employees, and had a budget in 2024–2025 of $843 million. Langan Park, the largest of the parks at 720 acres (291 ha), features lakes, natural spaces, and contains the Mobile Museum of Art, Azalea City Golf Course, Mobile Botanical Gardens and Playhouse in the Park.
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According to the 2024 American Community Survey estimates, the average family size was 3.13 people. The annexation shifted racial demographics; Mobile became a majority-minority city with Black or African American residents remaining the largest racial group. As of the 2020 census, Mobile had a population of 187,041 and 77,772 households, including 45,953 families. Mobile is located in the southwestern region of the U.S. state of Alabama.
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It features the World War II era battleship USS Alabama, the World War II era submarine USS Drum, Korean War and Vietnam War Memorials, and historical military equipment. Its local history and genealogy division is located near the Ben May Main Library on Government Street. The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of South Alabama are open to the public and house primary sources relating to the history of the university, Mobile, and southern Alabama. The National African American Archives and Museum features the history of African-American participation in Mardi Gras, slavery-era artifacts, and portraits and biographies of famous African Americans.
The University of South Alabama is a public, doctoral-level university established in 1963. Protestant schools include St. Paul’s Episcopal School and Faith Academy. It assumed its current configuration in 1988, when the University Military School (founded 1893) and the Julius T. Wright School for Girls (1923) merged to form UMS-Wright. UMS-Wright Preparatory School is an independent co-educational preparatory school. It was founded in 1989 to identify, challenge, and educate future leaders. Public schools in Mobile are operated by the Mobile County Public School System (MCPSS).
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Other railroads include the CG Railway (CGR), a rail ship service to Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, and the Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks (TASD), a switching railroad. Mobile is served by four Class I railroads, including the Canadian National Railway (CNR), CSX Transportation (CSX), the Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS), and the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS). A total of 43 FM radio stations and 12 AM radio stations are located around the Mobile area and provide signals sufficiently strong to serve Mobile. Mobile is served locally by several over-the-air television stations including WKRG 5 (CBS), WALA 10 (Fox), WPMI 15 (Roar), WMPV 21 (religious), WDPM 23 (religious), WEIQ 42 (PBS), and WFNA 55 (The CW). Mobile’s alternative newspaper is the Lagniappe which was founded on July 24, 2002. Several post-secondary vocational institutions have a campus in Mobile including Fortis College, Virginia College, ITT Technical Institute and Remington College.
- The Mobile Carnival Museum houses the city’s Mardi Gras history and memorabilia.
- The last slaves to enter the United States from the African trade were brought to Mobile on the slave ship Clotilda, including Cudjoe Lewis, who was the last survivor of the slave trade.
- Between 1993 and 2003 roughly 13,983 new jobs were created as 87 new companies were founded and 399 existing companies were expanded.
- Protestant schools include St. Paul’s Episcopal School and Faith Academy.
- Current companies that were formerly based in the city include Checkers, Minolta-QMS, Morrison’s, and the Waterman Steamship Corporation.
- The Centre for the Living Arts is an organization that operates the historic Saenger Theatre and Space 301, a contemporary art gallery.
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- Several post-secondary vocational institutions have a campus in Mobile including Fortis College, Virginia College, ITT Technical Institute and Remington College.
- The 200-year-old Mobile County Health Department (MCHD) provides education and preventive health services to Mobile and surrounding areas.
- Beginning in the late 1980s, newly elected mayor Mike Dow and the city council began an effort termed the “String of Pearls Initiative” to make Mobile into a competitive city.
- Many parochial schools belong to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile, including McGill-Toolen Catholic High School.
- Cathedral Square is a one-block performing arts park, also in the Lower Dauphin Street Historic District, which is overlooked by the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception.
- The Mobile metropolitan area, with an estimated 412,000 people, is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the state.
- Early cottages, similar to those in other French settlements, were built as rows of two or three separate rooms each with a front and rear door that often opened onto an external porch running the length of the home.
George E. McNally, Mobile’s first Republican mayor since Reconstruction, was the driving force behind the founding of the IDB. During the 1950s the City of Mobile integrated its police force and Spring Hill College accepted students of all races. Between 1940 and 1943, more than 89,000 people moved into Mobile to work for war effort industries.
Mobile has the longest history of celebrating Mardi Gras in the United States, dating to the early 18th century during the French colonial period. It is the largest industrial and transportation complex in the region with more than 70 companies, many of which are aerospace, spread over 1,650 acres (668 ha). Defunct companies that had been founded or based in Mobile included Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company, Delchamps, and Gayfers. Between 1993 and 2003 roughly 13,983 new jobs were created as 87 new companies were founded and 399 existing companies were expanded. The federal district court ordered that the three students be admitted to Murphy for the 1964 school year, leading to the desegregation of Mobile County’s school system. This was nearly a decade after the United States Supreme Court had ruled in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional.
The Mobile Police Department Museum chronicles the history of the city’s law enforcement. It serves as the official welcome center and a colonial-era living history museum. The Fort of Colonial Mobile is a reconstruction of the city’s original Fort Condé, built on the original fort’s footprint.
The city initiated construction of numerous new facilities and projects, and the restoration of hundreds of historic downtown buildings and homes. Beginning in the late 1980s, newly elected mayor Mike Dow and the city council began an effort lizaro termed the “String of Pearls Initiative” to make Mobile into a competitive city. In 1963, three African-American students brought a case against the Mobile County School Board for being denied admission to Murphy High School.
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When Mobile was included in the Mississippi Territory in 1813, the population had dwindled to roughly 300 people. By 1766, the town’s population was estimated to be 860 people, although the borders were smaller than during the French colonial period. The Treaty of Paris ceded French territories east of the Mississippi River to Britain, including Mobile. The tribe’s language was the basis for Mobilian Jargon, a Choctaw-derived lingua franca widely used to facilitate trade among the various Gulf Coast peoples. Alabama’s French Creole population celebrated this festival from the first decade of the 18th century. The Mobile metropolitan area, with an estimated 412,000 people, is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the state.