The population of Mobile county is estimated at 414,852. In 2017 there were 5,475 births and 4,481 deaths in Mobile county. Mobile county has 70,993 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 35,086 that are owned free and clear and 52,356 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Mobile County filed 172,670 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 8.4% of all Alabama filings and 0.116% of the entire nation. Mobile had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,425,289,000 on earned income of $8,890,239,000. Other notable statistics from Mobile County were 4,950 unemployment claims which collected a total of $16,453,000 and 37,630 charitable contributions valued at $236,259,000. 32,750 filings from Mobile County paid a combined total of $49,543,000 in property taxes and 30,030 filings paid $195,831,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Mobile county had 599 religious congregations with an estimated 253,133 members.
23.0% of the Mobile population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 13.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 39% of Mobile County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 10,802 votes.
At $45,615 the median income is 94.7% of the Alabama average. An estimated 9,652 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Mobile, the equivalant of around 5.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 6.6%.

Top 15 Industries in Mobile County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
21,863	Health care and social assistance
19,204	Retail trade
18,025	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
16,845	Administrative and support services
16,063	Manufacturing
13,684	Accommodation and food services
12,027	Food services and drinking places
11,067	Restaurants and other eating places
9,843	Employment services
9,039	Professional, scientific, and technical services
7,505	Ambulatory health care services
6,760	General medical and surgical hospitals
6,760	General medical and surgical hospitals, except government
6,661	Transportation equipment manufacturing
6,176	Transportation and warehousing

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.53% in Mobile County (averaging across 13 zip codes a sample of which are; 36619, 36613, 36606 and 36571).

In 2018 13.31% of listings in Mobile County (averaging across 16 zip codes a sample of which are; 36606, 36575, 36541, 36587 and 36571) dropped their price.

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