Mobile, Alabama

Mobile is a city in and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama. The population of the city is 195,111, making it the third most populous city in Alabama and the largest municipality on the Gulf Coast between New Orleans and St. Petersburg.
Mobile 	Alabama
Incorporated 	January 20, 1814 (town), December 17, 1819 (city)
Nicknames 	The Port City, Azalea City, The City of Six Flags
County 	Mobile
Population 	195,111
Elevation 	10 ft (3 m)
Mayor 	Archie Barker
Gym Leader 	Elijah McCullough - Water-type specialist Gym
City Guildmaster	A'dré Hudson
ZIP code 	36601-36612, 36615-36619, 36625, 36628, 36630, 36633, 36640-36641, 36644, 36652, 36660, 36663, 36670-36671, 36675, 36685, 36688-36689, 36691, 36693, 36695
== Demographics ==
As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the racial composition of the city is:
50.64% Black or African American (98,804)
44.06% White (85,965)
5.30% Other (10,342)
21.7% (42,339) of Mobile residents live below the poverty line.
== Theft rate statistics ==
Mobile has the seventh-highest rate of Pokemon theft in Alabama, and a murder rate outside the top ten. The city reported 285 Pokemon thefts in 2018, and averages 12.47 murders a year.
== Pokemon ==
See the Mobile County page for more info.
== Fun facts ==
* Considered one of the Gulf Coast's cultural centers, Mobile has several art museums, a symphony orchestra, professional opera, professional ballet company, and a large concentration of historic architecture. Mobile is known for having the oldest organized Carnival or Mardi Gras celebrations in the United States. Its French Catholic colonial settlers celebrated this festival from the first decade of the 18th century. Beginning in 1830, Mobile was host to the first formally organized Carnival mystic society to celebrate with a parade in the United States. (In New Orleans such a group is called a krewe.)
* Mobile is home to the University of South Alabama, Faulkner University, Spring Hill College and The University of Mobile, along with the main campus of the South Alabama Battle Academy.
* Aerospace, steel, ship building, retail, services, construction, medicine, and manufacturing are Mobile's major industries. After having economic decline for several decades, Mobile's economy began to rebound in the late 1980s. Between 1993 and 2003 roughly 13,983 new jobs were created as 87 new companies were founded and 399 existing companies were expanded. Defunct companies that had been founded or based in Mobile included Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company, Delchamps, and Gayfers. Current companies that were formerly based in the city include Checkers, Minolta-QMS, Morrison's, and the Waterman Steamship Corporation.
* Mobile is served by the Mobile Regional Airport, and the Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley.
* Local TV stations in or serving Mobile include WEAR 3 (ABC), WKRG-TV 5 (CBS), WALA 10 (Fox), WPMI 15 (NBC), WSRE 23 (PBS), WEIQ 42 (PBS) and WFNA 55 (The CW).
* Mobile is home to the oldest annual Mardi Gras celebration in the United States.
* AlwaysHD, Foosackly's, Integrity Media, and Volkert, Inc. are headquartered in Mobile.
* The Port of Mobile is one of the city's biggest employers, in addition to a few shipyards, and ThyssenKrupp.
* The USS Alabama (BB-60) is docked in Mobile.
Category:Alabama Cities