Axis draws 1,099 commuters a day, with 4.7 jobs for every working resident
Axis has 1,102 jobs for 234 working residents. Only 1% work in Axis; the top destination outside it is Mobile (40%, 18 miles). For 0% of workers, the job is at home; Alabama has 9%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Axis: the figures worth knowing
Axis fills up on a workday
Axis has 1,102 jobs, 4.7 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,200 people are in town, 4 times the 330 who live here. Day and night ↓
Axis makes and builds things
85% of the jobs based in Axis are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Axis residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 26%. The jobs ↓
40% of Axis works in Mobile
93 working residents, 40%, have their main job in Mobile, 18 miles away. That’s 40 times as many as work in Axis itself. The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 234 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The workday shuffle in and out of Axis
On a workday 231 residents head out to work and 3 work right here.
About 1,200 people are in Axis on a workday afternoon, 266% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Making and building: 85% of jobs based in Axis
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Axis, 2013 → 2023: 87 → 1,102. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Axis’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Axis’ workforce comes from
Where Axis clocks in
40% of workers
3% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
About 24 minutes each way for Axis’ commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Axis workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 163 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Alabama: 88% drive alone, <1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Near or far: the trip to work from Axis
About 15% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
11% of Axis works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Saraland (10%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Axis’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Axis: questions
What is the median household income in Axis?
$95,977 (±$5,480) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Axis?
0.0%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Axis?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Axis work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mobile (40%, 18 mi), Saraland (10%, 7 mi), Daphne (3%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Axis without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Axis, from the people who make the trip.
More of Axis
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.