Bayou La Batre, Alabama

Bayou La Batre is a city in Mobile County, Alabama. The population of the city is 2,558.
Bayou La Batre 	Alabama
Incorporated 	1955
County 	Mobile
Population 	2,558
Elevation 	13 ft (4 m)
Mayor 	Osvaldo Frost
City Guildmaster	Roger Hinton
ZIP code 	36509
== Demographics ==
As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the racial composition of the city is:
58.01% White (1,484)
30.61% Other (783)
11.38% Black or African American (291)
27.9% (713) of Bayou La Batre residents live below the poverty line.
== Theft rate statistics ==
Bayou La Batre has low to average rates of Pokemon theft and murder. The city reported 4 Pokemon thefts in 2018, and averages 1.16 murders a year.
== Pokemon ==
See the Mobile County page for more info.
== Fun facts ==
* Bayou La Batre is a center for shipbuilding. The shipyards are owned and operated mainly by local families such as Gazzier Marine Services, Horizon Shipbuilding, Steiner Ship Yard, Rodriguez Boat Builders, Master Boat Builders, Williams Fabrication, and Landry Boat Works.
** People from all over the world including the United States, South America, and Africa have boats built in Bayou La Batre frequently. In 2005, Steiner Ship Yard was asked by Walt Disney Studios to build a pirate ship, the Black Pearl; the pitch-black ship was actually a huge wooden prop built on top of a modern 96-foot-long steel utility boat. Crews sailed the ship out of the bayou to the Caribbean for the filming of sequels to Disney's 2003 film "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl".
** Another ship, the FV Cornelia Marie from the Deadliest Catch series, was built in Bayou La Batre in 1989.
* Bayou La Batre is home to the second-largest Chinchou ponds in the state of Alabama.
* Bayou La Batre has a little bit of amenities to offer, but not much. It has dollar stores, a Fred's, Waffle House, Pizza Hut, McDonald's, Subway, a little bit of public battle fields, a sports complex, a little bit of local restaurants and businesses, CashSaver, a few auto parts places, Sidney's, Sugar Rush, China King, Phnom Penh Fusion, Jubilee Seafood, CVS, and not much else.
Category:Alabama Cities