It shares most of Montgomery metropolitan area, and includes the city of Mobile, and stretches into the Wiregrass Region in the northern portion of the state.

The 2nd was scheduled to be completely overhauled in advance of the 2024 elections, in consequence of the United States Supreme Court's decision in Allen v. Milligan, which ordered Alabama to create a second black opportunity district.

Fort Novosel and Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base are both within its bounds, as is Troy University.

At the state and local level, however, conservative Democrats continued to hold most offices as late as 2002.

[6] The new 2nd district takes the heavier African American communities of Butler, Macon, Monroe, Pike, and Russell counties as well as the capital Montgomery, Alabama.