Bay Minette is a somewhat small coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 7,683 people and five constituent neighborhoods, Bay Minette is the 89th largest community in Alabama.

Bay Minette is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Bay Minette is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bay Minette who work in office and administrative support jobs (13.79%), sales jobs (9.38%), and teaching (8.65%).

One of the nice things about Bay Minette is that is it nautical, meaning that parts of the city are somewhat historic and on the ocean, or touch tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Because of this, visitors and locals will often go to these areas to take in the scenery or to enjoy waterfront activities.

Being a small city, Bay Minette does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Bay Minette Information and Demographics

The percentage of adults in Bay Minette who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 14.96%: 15.45% of the adults in Bay Minette have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Bay Minette in 2000 was $16,093, which is upper middle income relative to Alabama, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $64,372 for a family of four.

Bay Minette is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bay Minette home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Bay Minette is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bay Minette include Irish, German, African, English, European, and Scotch-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Bay Minette is English. Some people also speak Spanish.