Location in Mobile County and the state of Alabama Location in Mobile County and the state of Alabama Satsuma is a town/city in Mobile County, Alabama, United States.
Known before to 1915 as Fig Tree Island, the town/city was titled after the Satsuma orange, which was successfully cultivated and grown in Alabama starting in 1878, t from Meiji, Japan.
Satsuma is a part of the Mobile urbane statistical area.
Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.5 square miles (17 km2), of which 6.5 square miles (17 km2) is territory and 0.15% is water.
1959 Plans for a Town Charter submitted to the County of Mobile and the State of Alabama were allowed.
As of the census of 2000, there were 5,687 citizens , 2,017 homeholds, and 1,688 families residing in the city.
There were 2,017 homeholds out of which 37.5% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 71.3% were married couples living together, 8.9% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 16.3% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 26.0% under the age of 18, 8.3% from 18 to 24, 28.0% from 25 to 44, 26.5% from 45 to 64, and 11.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $50,496, and the median income for a family was $53,180.
There were 2,290 homeholds out of which 31.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 61.8% were married couples living together, 11.5% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 22.5% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 23.8% under the age of 18, 7.5% from 18 to 24, 24.4% from 25 to 44, 29.4% from 45 to 64, and 14.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $59,289, and the median income for a family was $63,333.
About 0% of families and 0.7% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 0% of those under age 18 and 1.5% of those age 65 or over.
Satsuma is served by the Satsuma City School System, following the prosperous separation from the Mobile County Public School System in 2012.
Satsuma voted on April 12, 2011 to problematic its own school system. The Satsuma City School System is served by two schools, Robert E.
Lee Elementary (K-6) and Satsuma High School (7-12).
Before the Satsuma City School System was founded, the schools that served Satsuma encompassed Robert E.
Lee Intermediate School (3 through 5), North Mobile County Middle School (6-8), Satsuma High School (9-12).
Lee Primary, Lee Intermediate, and Satsuma High were in the town/city of Satsuma, while North Mobile County Middle was in Axis. Before the Saraland City Schools fitness formed, Satsuma inhabitants attended Adams Middle School in Saraland.
In 2003, officials of Satsuma, Saraland, and Chickasaw contemplated forming the "Delta School District." Such a split would have required an act from the Alabama Legislature. In June 2006, the City of Saraland voted to break away from the Mobile County Public School System and form its own school system. On September 7, 2010 North Mobile County Middle School opened, replacing the part of Adams Middle School in Saraland, because inhabitants outside of Saraland are no longer zoned to Adams Middle. Satsuma inhabitants considered leaving Mobile County schools since about 2001. In 2010, the City of Satsuma began conducting a study on whether it can split from the Mobile County school system.
Tom Williams, a council member of Satsuma, said he began considering splitting once Mobile County decided to situate the new middle school in Axis, 12 miles (19 km) from Satsuma, since students have longer bus rides to the school and that the school is further away from fire and police stations. The Mobile County government assembled the school outside of the Satsuma town/city limits so the town/city government would be unable to possess the school if it opted to secede. "Satsuma inhabitants approve tax for new enhance school system".
"Satsuma mulls split from Mobile County schools." "Chickasaw officials to examine possible school split", Mobile Press-Register.
"Video: North Mobile County Middle School opens its doors in Axis." "North Mobile County Middle School students 6th grader Derrick Boykin, 12, and 7th grader Amanda Daniels, 12, walk down a sidewalk on the first day of classes at the school Tuesday, Sept.
The newly instead of $14 million school was assembled to accommodate students displaced by Saraland's split from the Mobile County system.
"School distance key copy in proposed Satsuma split from Mobile enhance schools." City of Satsuma Municipalities and communities of Mobile County, Alabama, United States Bayou La Batre Chickasaw Citronelle Creola Mobile Prichard Saraland Satsuma Semmes This populated place also has portions in an adjoining county or counties Cities in Alabama - Cities in Mobile County, Alabama - 1959 establishments in Alabama
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