Alabama · Census place 0104684

Bayou La Batre, Alabama

Bayou La Batre is a city in Mobile County, Alabama with an estimated 2,124 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 179th largest of 257 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
2,124
#179 of 257 in Alabama
Change since 2020
-2.5%
-54 people
Land area
7.5 sq mi
+ 0.14 sq mi water
Density
284 / sq mi
State median 715
Orange pin: Bayou La Batre. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Montgomery.

Bayou La Batre population, 2020 to 2024

Bayou La Batre lost 54 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.5%. In the latest year it moved by -8.

2,17820202,16320212,14220222,13220232,1242024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 2,181. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Bayou La Batre covers 7.49 square miles of land and 0.14 of water, for 284 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Bayou La Batre is less dense than the typical town.

What county Bayou La Batre is in

All of Bayou La Batre's residents live in Mobile County, which had 412,339 residents in 2024. Bayou La Batre holds 0.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bayou La Batre

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Bayou La Batre by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 36509, 36544. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Bayou La Batre is

The Census internal point of Bayou La Batre is at 30.407600, -88.263300. Montgomery, the capital, is 178.7 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Moss Point, MS (11,791 people), 16.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Mobile, AL, 20.3 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
30.407600, -88.263300
DMS
30°24'27.36"N 88°15'47.88"W
UTM
16N 378653.8E 3364629.3N
Geohash
dj3hzx89h
Plus code
862HCP5P+2M

Daylight in Bayou La Batre

At 30.41° N, Bayou La Batre gets about 14 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 56 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bayou La Batre

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Dauphin Island, 12.1 miles away, with 1,923 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Bayou La Batre, AL?

2,124 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 54 (2.5%) from 2,178 in July 2020.

What county is Bayou La Batre in?

Mobile County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Bayou La Batre?

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 36509, 36544.

How far is Bayou La Batre from Montgomery?

178.7 miles (287.5 km) in a straight line, heading NE from Bayou La Batre.

What is the nearest larger city to Bayou La Batre?

Moss Point, MS, with 11,791 residents, 16.1 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

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