Axis, Alabama
Axis is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 561, down from 757 at the 2010 census. It has a post office with the 36505 ZIP code. The community has one site listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, the Kirk House.
Geography
Axis is located in northeastern Mobile County. It is bordered to the south by the city of Creola. U.S. Route 43 runs through the west side of the community, leading south to downtown Mobile and north to Mount Vernon.According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Axis CDP has an area of, of which, or 0.29%, are water.
Education
Mobile County Public School System operates public schools. Students are zoned to North Mobile County K-8 School, previously North Mobile County Middle School; and Citronelle High School in Citronelle.On September 7, 2010, North Mobile County Middle School opened, replacing the role of Adams Middle School in Saraland, because residents outside of Saraland are no longer zoned to Adams Middle. North Mobile County middle had been built on a "16th section", a piece of land allotted to each school district under an Alabama law stating that for each sixteen portions of land in a county, the school district will take one portion of land. Some City of Satsuma residents disliked North Mobile County Middle's distance and remoteness from Satsuma, prompting them to call for a separate school district. The Mobile County government built the school outside of the Satsuma city limits so the city government would be unable to possess the school if it opted to secede.
Prior to the split of Satsuma from the Mobile County system, Axis was zoned to Satsuma High School. In 2011 Renee Busbee of the Mobile Press-Register said that residents of Axis may be rezoned to Blount, Citronelle, and/or Vigor high schools.
Viscose plant
Courtaulds manufactured viscose rayon in a plant near Axis from about 1952. The plant emitted carbon disulfide. In 1991, the EPA found the carbon disulfide emissions of the Axis plant to be more than double the total discharge of Alabama's nine other carbon-disulfide-emitting plants put together. The 1990 amendments to the United States' Clean Air Act required emissions reductions. In 1992, the plant recovered less than 10% of the carbon disulfide it used. In 1993–1997, the plant was upgraded in a manner that increased the reuse efficiency of carbon disulfide to 50-55%. The carbon-bed technology which had been used in the parent company's European operations for 30 years would have reduced emissions by 90%, but would not have improved revenue by decreasing carbon disulfide demand, so improved spinning machines were bought instead. No other efforts were made to reduce emissions. Courtaulds did not monitor carbon disulfide concentrations in its stacks or in air around the factory.Demographics
Axis was listed as a census designated place in the 2010 U.S. census.| Race / Ethnicity | Pop 2010 | Pop 2020 | % 2010 | % 2020 |
| White alone | 500 | 327 | 66.05% | 58.29% |
| Black or African American alone | 204 | 190 | 26.95% | 33.87% |
| Native American or Alaska Native alone | 24 | 24 | 3.17% | 4.28% |
| Asian alone | 1 | 1 | 0.13% | 0.18% |
| Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone | 1 | 0 | 0.13% | 0.00% |
| Other race alone | 0 | 2 | 0.00% | 0.36% |
| Mixed race or Multiracial | 20 | 13 | 2.64% | 2.32% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 7 | 4 | 0.92% | 0.71% |
| Total | 757 | 561 | 100.00% | 100.00% |