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Prichard is a city in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. The population was 19,322 at the 2020 census , [ 4 ] and was estimated to be 18,870 in 2022. [ 5 ] Prichard borders the north side of Mobile , as well as the Mobile suburbs of Chickasaw , Saraland , and the unincorporated sections of Eight Mile .
These cities and towns cover only 9.6% of the state's land mass but are home to 60.4% of its population. [2] The Code of Alabama 1975 defines the legal use of the terms "town" and "city" based on population. A municipality with a population of 2,000 or more is a city, while less than 2,000 is a town. [4]
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. [1] The Mobile metropolitan area is the third-largest metropolitan area in the state of Alabama, after Birmingham and Huntsville.
Mobile (/ m oʊ ˈ b iː l / moh-BEEL, French: ⓘ) is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States.The population was 187,041 at the 2020 census. [8] [9] After a successful vote to annex areas west of the city limits in July 2023, Mobile's population increased to 204,689 residents, making it the fourth-most populous city in Alabama, after Montgomery, Birmingham, and ...
Whistler was an unincorporated community in Mobile County, until the 1950s when it was annexed into neighboring Prichard. The founding of Whistler, in the 1850s, coincided with construction of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
As of 2000, 96.7% of Alabama residents age 5 and older speak English at home and 2.2% speak Spanish. German speakers make up only 0.4% of the population, French/French Creole at 0.3%, and Chinese at 0.1%. In 2006 Alabama had a larger percentage of tobacco smokers than the national average, with 23% of adults smoking. [1]
Saraland is a city in Mobile County, Alabama, United States, and a suburb of Mobile. As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 16,171, [ 2 ] up from 13,405 at the 2010 census. Saraland, part of the Mobile metropolitan area , is the third largest city in Mobile County.
Eight Mile is an unincorporated community in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. [1] The community is named for its distance from the city of Mobile . [ 2 ] Part of it was annexed in the mid-20th century by the city of Prichard, Alabama .