Mobile

City Commute Profile

Mobile, AL

Where Mobile’s 85,154 resident workers go each day — 62.0% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Daphne.

AlabamaLODES 2023 data
64
Commute Score

64 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Mobile at a glance
Employed Residents
85,154
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
14.4mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
62.0%
Share working within the area
Work from home
9.3%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Daphne
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Mobile proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Mobile commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Mobile

85,154 commutes, one dot at a time

Mobile

Where 85,154 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Mobile, by worker count.

1Mobile0.0 mi52,804
2Daphne14.4 mi1,936
3Tillmans Corner8.2 mi1,600
4Saraland11.3 mi1,415
5Montgomery159.3 mi1,371
6Prichard5.2 mi1,244
7Fairhope17.2 mi1,228
8Birmingham210.5 mi933

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Mobile.

1Mobile0.0 mi52,804
2Tillmans Corner8.2 mi3,881
3Prichard5.2 mi3,879
4Daphne14.4 mi3,681
5Saraland11.3 mi3,158
6Fairhope17.2 mi2,040
7Spanish Fort13.3 mi1,552
8Semmes10.3 mi1,438

Top industries

The sectors that employ Mobile’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance19.8%
RTRetail Trade12.1%
AFAccommodation and Food Services9.4%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services7.7%
EDEducational Services7.2%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services6.3%
MFManufacturing6.0%
COConstruction5.4%
TRTransportation and Warehousing5.2%

Mobile city profile

Who lives in Mobile — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
203,416
Median age
37.3yrs
Median household income
$53,558
Median home value
$193,300
Median gross rent
$1,068/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
32.0%
Poverty rate
18.4%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Mobile

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

7 providers · 2 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps100%
5 Gbps98%
8 Gbps3%
See all internet providers in Mobile

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).