An annexation that brought thousands of new residents into the city of Mobile in 2023 appeared for the first time in census estimates released Thursday.
) - An annexation that brought thousands of new residents into the city in 2023 appeared for the first time in census estimates released Thursday. Those figures confirm that Mobile now is the second-most populous city in Alabama – at least for now.
But the Census Bureau shows what city leaders predicted when they were campaigning for annexation – a continued decline in the overall population. The bureau estimates that Mobile’s population on July 1 last year was 201,367, placing it a few thousand above Birmingham and Montgomery but behind fast-growing Huntsville, which experienced a net increase of 4,174 residents since July 2023. The 1.8 percent increase put the city at 230,402. Mobile’s population estimate is a bit confusing. It shows a 2020 population of 206,488, with annual declines since then. That is 2020 figure represents an increase of 14,326 over the official 2020 census count of 187,041. That is roughly equivalent to the number of new residents who came into Mobile after the annexation vote. But a spokeswoman for the Census Bureau told FOX10 News that the annexation was not retroactively applied. She wrote in an email that the agency each year makes a new estimate of a jurisdiction’s population based on geographic revisions and other factors. Those adjustments can result in different estimates for all previous years after the most recent census. Elsewhere in southwest Alabama, the Census Bureau estimates show continued strong growth in Baldwin County. The population in Foley and Loxley grew by 12 percent from mid-2023 to the middle of last year. Only Brookside in Jefferson County grew at a faster rate.Baldwin County also has three of the four fastest-growing municipalities in the state since 2020. Silverhill leads the pack; its population zoomed from fewer than 800 in 2020 to 2,030 last year.New court documents reveal possible cause of fatal crash in ThomasvilleFather believed to have killed entire family in apparent murder-suicide on son’s high school graduation day
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