Agriculture is hard on this mountainside and thus the people have been making a living from stitching clothing in Babadağ for a long time, and others have migrated to Denizli, İzmir and Istanbul.

The area is characterized by the existence of geological fault zones,[4] which have contributed in the past to the occurrence of many landslides.

[5] There was also a high risk of landslides in town, which led the government to evacuate Gündoğdu, a steeply sloped urban district of Babadağ, in 2006.

The homes of about 2000 persons were destroyed to prevent uncontrolled return of their former inhabitants, many of whom relocated to newly built houses in the provincial capital Denizli.

[6] In 2019, a large wind park was built on the mountain crest southwest of Babadağ.