Biohazard Cleanup Near Axis Historic District Axis, AL

Axis is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in northeastern Mobile County, Alabama, with no municipal government of its own.

Axis was first listed as a census-designated place in the 2010 U.S. Census.

As of the 2020 census, Axis had a population of 561, down 25.9 percent from 757 at the 2010 census.

The CDP covers about 3.5 square miles in northeastern Mobile County, is bordered to the south by the city of Creola, and U.S. Route 43 runs through its west side, leading about 17 miles south to downtown Mobile.

Axis has its own post office with ZIP code 36505.

The community has one site listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, the Kirk House.

Fort Louis de la Mobile, the French fort established in 1702 from which the city of Mobile ultimately took its name, stood near present-day Axis.

Industry is a defining presence in Axis: the community hosts an SSAB steel plant along the Highway 43 industrial corridor in northern Mobile County.

A Courtaulds plant near Axis manufactured viscose rayon from about 1952, and in 1991 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found its carbon disulfide emissions were more than double those of Alabama's nine other carbon-disulfide-emitting plants combined.

Axis students attend Mobile County Public School System schools: the North Mobile County K-8 School, built on Salco Road in the Axis area, serves younger students, while older students are zoned to Citronelle High School.