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Mobile County
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county in Alabama, United States
Mobile County is a county located in Alabama in the southeastern United States. It is significant as the home to the port city of Mobile, which serves as an important economic hub for the region.
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- Population
- 414809
- Area
- 4258
- Official website
- MobileCountyAL.gov
- Image
- Government Plaza Mobile.JPG
- Households
- 157557
- Licence plate code
- 2
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- native label
- Mobile County
- Commons category
- Mobile County, Alabama
- water as percent of area
- 25.2
- inception
- 1812-12-18
- social media followers
- 7058
- per capita income
- 26778
- mean age
- 38.1
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Mobile County (/moʊˈbiːl/ moh-BEEL) is a county located in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Alabama. It is the third-most populous county in the state after Jefferson and Madison counties. As of the 2020 census, its population was 414,809. Its county seat is Mobile, which was founded as a deepwater port on the Mobile River. The only such port in Alabama, it has long been integral to the economy for providing access to inland waterways as well as the Gulf of Mexico.
The city, river, and county were named in honor of Maubila, a village of the paramount chief Tuskaloosa of the regional Mississippian culture. In 1540 he arranged an ambush of soldiers of Hernando de Soto's expedition in an effort to expel them from the territory. The Spaniards were armed with guns and killed many of the tribe. Mobile County and Washington County, Alabama make up the Mobile Metropolitan Statistical Area with a 2020 population of 430,197. The Mobile, AL MSA and Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL MSA make up the much larger Mobile-Daphne-Fairhope CSA with a 2020 population of 661,964.