Axis, Alabama.
Typical home $207,167 (+3.4% in a year). Mobile, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$595 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,735 +3%
- $200,431$207,167 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,781 +26%
- $164,386$207,167 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Axis$1,087
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Axis, AL rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Axis, Mobile County, Alabama
Axis, in Mobile County, had 561 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $95,977 a year and half less, against $58,880 across Mobile County. Unemployment in Mobile County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mobile County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Axis is a very small community in Mobile County, Alabama, with a population that makes it one of the smaller places in the county. Household incomes here run well above the county's, and the typical home is valued at about the level shown beside this text. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, summers are hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services also employing many. Across Mobile County, the largest workplaces include Mobile County Schools, the shipyard Austal USA and the University of South Alabama. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year earlier, and the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. The closest outing is Bottle Creek Indian Mounds, an archaeological site a short drive away. A longer drive leads to USS Alabama, a museum ship, and to the Mobile Museum of Art. The Alabama River is also within a longer drive for anyone who likes time by the water.
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- 24 mintypical commute
What people in Mobile County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mobile County had 175,010 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 41°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 74°. About 72 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bay Minette weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mobile County
- Mobile County SchoolsSchool district5,883FTE
- Austal USAShipyard2,754
- University of South AlabamaUniversity or college2,470
- Hargrove Engineers and ConstructorsConstruction engineering services2,328
- G.A. West & CoIndustrial building construction, general contractors2,200
- USA Health University HospitalGeneral hospital2,196FTE
- Airbus Mobile Manufacturing SiteAircraft manufacturing2,145
- Mobile Infirmary Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,124FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 449 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 56,584 people in all across the county; Axis has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- HurricanesVery high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Axis’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Mobile County and the Mobile, AL metro.
Axis home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Axis$207,167
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Axis9
Zip codes with a Axis address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Axis — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.