As of the census of 2000, there are 198,915 people, 78 480 households, and 50 776 families residing in Mobile. The median income for a household in the city is $31,445, and the median income for a family is $39,752.

Mobile's Alabama State Docks is currently undergoing the largest expansion in its history by expanding its container processing and storage facility and increasing container storage at the docks by over 1,000%. The rapidly growing auto industry in Alabama has resulted in over a thousand new jobs created in Mobile, which has led to aerospace manufacturers to locate to Mobile in 2005, thus bringing in additional thousands of new high paying jobs to the city.

Mobile also has benefited greatly economically from the Hurricane Katrina disaster with thousands of evacuees relocating to Mobile. In addition, hurricane relief workers and contractors which all have been based out of Mobile since September of 2005 have resulted in Mobile's economy soaring to record levels including sales tax revenues which soared over 70% in the 4th quarter of 2005.

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