Mobile vs Prichard

A side-by-side comparison of Mobile and Prichard: population, income, housing, and more.

Mobile and Prichard are places in Alabama. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Mobile has the higher population (185,097 vs 19,121 in Prichard). Mobile has the higher median household income ($51,090 vs $35,331 in Prichard). Mobile has the higher median home value ($170,300 vs $79,900 in Prichard).

Population, income & housing

	Mobile	Prichard
Population	185,097	19,121
Median age	37.7 yrs	37.4 yrs
Median household income	$51,090	$35,331
Median home value	$170,300	$79,900
Median gross rent	$1,029	$876
Housing units	90,744	8,791
Homeownership rate	51.4%	54.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher	31.5%	9.4%
Unemployment rate	5.9%	10.5%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Mobile	Prichard
Population	190,432 → 185,097 (-2.8%)	21,773 → 19,121 (-12.2%)
Median household income	$42,321 → $51,090 (+20.7%)	$29,009 → $35,331 (+21.8%)
Median home value	$123,600 → $170,300 (+37.8%)	$66,100 → $79,900 (+20.9%)
Median gross rent	$857 → $1,029 (+20.1%)	$717 → $876 (+22.2%)

Mobile

Population

190,432185,097

Median household income

$42,321$51,090

Median home value

$123,600$170,300

Median gross rent

$857$1,029

Prichard

Population

21,77319,121

Median household income

$29,009$35,331

Median home value

$66,100$79,900

Median gross rent

$717$876

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Mobile	Prichard
Under 5	5.5%	8.3%
5 to 17	15.9%	17.9%
18 to 24	10.3%	9.1%
25 to 34	14.8%	12.0%
35 to 44	11.9%	14.5%
45 to 54	11.3%	7.2%
55 to 64	13.2%	13.4%
65 to 74	10.0%	12.3%
75 and over	7.1%	5.3%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Mobile	Prichard
White (non-Hispanic)	39.2%	9.0%
Black or African American	52.7%	88.7%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.2%	0.2%
Asian	2.1%	0.1%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.1%	0.0%
Some other race	0.2%	0.0%
Two or more races	2.3%	0.3%
Hispanic or Latino	3.1%	1.6%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Mobile	Prichard
No high school diploma	9.4%	18.2%
High school graduate	29.7%	44.1%
Some college or associate's	29.4%	28.2%
Bachelor's degree	20.0%	5.4%
Graduate or professional degree	11.5%	4.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Mobile	Prichard
Drove alone	81.2%	86.2%
Carpooled	7.6%	5.8%
Public transit	0.7%	1.2%
Walked	1.4%	2.2%
Bicycle	0.1%	0.0%
Worked from home	8.1%	4.5%
Other means	1.0%	0.1%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Mobile	Prichard
1-unit, detached	66.7%	83.3%
1-unit, attached	1.4%	1.8%
2 to 4 units	5.5%	4.5%
5 to 19 units	16.4%	5.3%
20 or more units	8.5%	1.2%
Mobile home & other	1.4%	3.8%

Poverty & households

	Mobile	Prichard
Poverty rate	18.9%	32.1%
Average household size	2.31	2.73
Mean commute (minutes)	23	25
Median year structure built	1974	1967