Mobile Facts
Mobile facts to help you quickly assess our local area.
- The Mobile Alabama metropolitan area, including Baldwin County have shown consistent and stable growth and real estate appreciation over the last several years, with new industry keeping the housing supply very tight.
- Located 30 miles from the Gulf of Mexico and beaches.
- Alabama’s only port, and one of the nation’s largest, growing even busier in the aftermath of Hurricaine Katrina.
- Strong employment in shipbuilding, aerospace maintenance, repair and now aerospace manufacturing.
- Home of a new 3.7 Billion dollar Thiessen-Krupp steel plant bringing over 2,500 direct jobs to the area.
- Consistent growth in new industry due to progressive incentives by local governments.
- Newly constructed 35 story RSA tower is the tallest building in Alabama, fully leased with many tenants new to the area.
- Strong medical presence with University of South Alabama medical and nursing school. Over 5,600 employees in the University of South Alabama health system alone.
- Home port for Carnival Cruise ship Holiday.
- Birthplace of Mardi Gras, which brings in hundreds of thousands of tourists annually.
- Home of America’s Junior Miss pageant.
