Tillmans CornerAL
A town of 17,677 in Alabama.
Is Tillmans Corner a good place to live?
Tillmans Corner’s weakest subject is health: residents are less healthy than 86% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. With a D overall, Tillmans Corner is better than 10% of U.S. towns. That places it 148th of 187 in Alabama. Hazard risk is weaker too (D): FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 88% of U.S. communities, with hurricanes at the top. Cost of living is its strong suit (B+): a typical home costs about $167K, 2.8 years of the Mobile metro’s $59K median household income. Its January low is 41°F, against 33°F in Alabama’s towns and 22°F across U.S. towns.
Figures: home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · health, CDC PLACES · FEMA National Risk Index · NOAA normals, 1991–2020.
96% of working residents leave Tillmans Corner for work
Where Tillmans Corner’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Tillmans Corner grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Alabama), ordered by how far Tillmans Corner is from typical.
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USS Alabama and 20 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Tillmans Corner. Close and well known come first.
Big draw14 mi MuseumUSS Alabama
14 mi MuseumUSS Drum
14 mi MuseumBattleship Memorial Park
27 mi MuseumFort Morgan
12 mi Stadium & arenaMobile Civic Center
27 mi National SeashoreGulf Islands National Seashore7.6M visitors a yearPhoto credits
USS Alabama: USN, Public domain · USS Drum: Jean-Pierre Martin, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Battleship Memorial Park: Rennett Stowe from USA, CC BY 2.0 · Fort Morgan: Altairisfar, Public domain · Mobile Civic Center: Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Gulf Islands National Seashore: National Park Service, Public domain
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Moving to Tillmans Corner: who provides what
Tillmans Corner is unincorporated, so Mobile County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Tillmans Corner.
Tillmans Corner has homes that are cheap against local pay, has milder winter nights than nearly all U.S. towns and has more than doubled its jobs in ten years.
0% of Tillmans Corner is conserved land
4.8 miles of trail. Tillmans Corner’s concentration of trails stands at 0.4 miles per square mile.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Public schools in Tillmans Corner fall behind 76% of Alabama districts
One of its 2 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed. The public schools here belong to the Mobile County school district. Also worth knowing: the 2 public schools in Tillmans Corner teach 974 students between them.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| WC Griggs Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 601 | B+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within AL on state tests and graduation
Tillmans Corner earns a D for health
Among adults in Tillmans Corner, 41% sleep under 7 hours. In Tillmans Corner, 23% of adults worry about having enough food, and 19% smoke cigarettes.
| Tillmans Corner | Alabama towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 15% | 12% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 23% | 19% | 14% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 30% | 25% |
| What stands out | Tillmans Corner | AL |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 19.6% | 15.4% |
| More smokers | 18.5% | 15.1% |
| More adults facing food insecurity | 23.3% | 19.2% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Tillmans Corner faces a very high natural-hazard risk, led by hurricanes
Of the losses FEMA expects in Tillmans Corner, 64% come from hurricanes and 25% from inland flooding. Flood insurance has paid out on 10 claims locally since 1979. Federal aid has come to Tillmans Corner households in 3 declared disasters; the latest was in 2020.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
More than half of Tillmans Corner’s working residents commute to Mobile
Jobs based here grew from 1,310 in 2013 to 3,522.
The top destinations are Mobile (53%), Pascagoula (2%) and Daphne (2%). Most working residents leave Tillmans Corner for work: only 4% work in town. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs locally rose by 2,212, to 3,522. 18% of residents live below the poverty line here.
| Tillmans Corner | Alabama towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 18% | 16% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 4.4% | 10% | 8% |
| Median household income | $61,000 | $62,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 6.7% | 6.7% | 11% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The climate in Tillmans Corner brings mild winters and hot summers
January nights average 40.7°, milder than in 95% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 90.7°.
For Tillmans Corner, the midsummer high is 91°F. Snowfall is close to zero.
| Tillmans Corner | Alabama towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 41°F | 33°F | 22°F |
| July high | 91°F | 91°F | 85°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The median home in Tillmans Corner sells for about $229K
At 2.8 years of the Mobile metro’s $59K median household income, the typical home costs less against local pay than in 75% of Alabama towns; that ratio is one input to its B+ for cost of living.
The typical rent in Tillmans Corner is $908 a month. A home in Tillmans Corner typically sold within 44 days of listing. The share of households in Tillmans Corner who live in a home they own: 66%.
| Tillmans Corner | Alabama towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 66% | 70% | 73% |
| Median rent | $908 a month | $943 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Tillmans Corner
Colleges nearby
4 within 15 miles of the center of Tillmans Corner
About 4 of every 100 Tillmans Corner residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Alabama.
About Tillmans Corner
Unincorporated community and census-designated place in Alabama, US
Tillmans Corner, or Tillman’s Corner, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 17,731. It is part of the Mobile metropolitan area, and is the largest census-designated place in Alabama.
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- Area
- 13 sq mi
- Elevation
- 82 ft
Tillmans Corner’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Tillmans Corner.
| Town | AL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tillmans Corner | #148 | D | B+ | — | C− | D |
| Mobile | #169 | D− | C+ | D | C− | C |
| Theodore | #157 | D | B− | — | C− | C− |
Tillmans Corner and Theodore report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Tillmans Corner with a neighbor →
Questions about Tillmans Corner
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Tillmans Corner, AL a good place to live?
Tillmans Corner grades D overall, better than 10% of U.S. towns and #148 of 187 in Alabama. It grades D for health and C− for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Tillmans Corner, AL expensive?
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $167,000, 30% below the Alabama typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B+.