Gate City
Gate City is a neighborhood in the East Lake community of Birmingham. It occupies the area north of I-20 and south of the East Lake neighborhood, centered on Georgia Road and including the Marks Village housing project. which was constructed in the 1950s. It is bordered by South Woodlawn to the west, Oak Ridge Park and Eastwood to the south, and Brown Springs to the east. Gate City was named because it was the first Birmingham neighborhood entered through Red Gap from Irondale to the northeast. Five major railroads used that approach into Birmingham.
Indicator Details
| Indicators | Primary Domain | Indicator Value |
Rank |
Tier | Indicator Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Assisted Households | Employment Opportunities | 116.7% | 99 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Adult Educational Attainment | Educational Opportunities | 59.4% | 99 | Bottom | 3.00 |
| Access to Mainstream Financial Services | Economic Health | 10.4% | 98 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Visual Property Nuisances | Blight | 37.4% | 98 | Bottom | 5.00 |
| Long-Term Unemployment | Employment Opportunities | 10.0% | 98 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Employment Rate | Employment Opportunities | 65.5% | 94 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Reading Proficiency | Educational Opportunities | 6.5% | 88 | Bottom | 3.00 |
| Violent Crime | Health Systems and Public Safety | 196.7 | 87 | Bottom | 4.00 |
| Tax Delinquent Properties | Blight | 29.3% | 87 | Bottom | 5.00 |
| Chronic School Absence | Health Systems and Public Safety | 32.9% | 86 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| High School Graduation Rate | Educational Opportunities | 72.4% | 86 | Bottom | 3.00 |
| Age of Housing | Housing | 90.7% | 81 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Excessive Housing Cost Burden | Housing | 47.4% | 80 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Payday Loans | Economic Health | 1.5 | 76 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Infant Mortality Rate | Health Systems and Public Safety | 16 | 71 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Walkability | Neighborhood Characteristics | 33.3 | 70 | Bottom | 4.00 |
| Abandoned Structures | Blight | 12.5% | 61 | Middle | 5.00 |
| Travel Time to Work | Employment Opportunities | 25.4 | 59 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Residential Mobility | Social Cohesion | 81.7% | 59 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Offsite Alcohol Outlets | Neighborhood Characteristics | 0.5 | 50 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Preschool Enrollment | Educational Opportunities | 20.5% | 47 | Middle | 3.00 |
| Commute Mode Share | Transportation | 17.8% | 44 | Middle | 4.00 |
| Tree Cover | Natural Areas | 8.2% | 42 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Land Use Mix | Neighborhood Characteristics | 0.6 | 39 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Food Desert | Neighborhood Characteristics | 75.0% | 38 | Middle | 2.00 |
| Pedestrian Connectivity | Transportation | 126 | 35 | Middle | 4.00 |
| Vacancy Rates | Housing | 14.6% | 33 | Top | 1.00 |
| Business Retention | Economic Health | 0.0% | 22 | Top | 1.00 |
| Local Business Vitality | Economic Health | 71.4% | 22 | Top | 1.00 |
| Transit Accessibility | Transportation | 8.2 | 19 | Top | 4.00 |
| Household Transportation Costs | Transportation | 22.5% | 17 | Top | 4.00 |
| Motor Vehicle Collisions | Health Systems and Public Safety | 1.3 | 12 | Top | 4.00 |
| Voter Participation | Social Cohesion | 8.2% | 6 | Top | 1.00 |
| Public Health Nuisances | Health Systems and Public Safety | 9.8 | 3 | Top | 4.00 |
| Pedestrian & Bicycle Injuries by Motor Vehicles | Health Systems and Public Safety | 0 | 1 | Top | 4.00 |
| Residential Proximity to Traffic | Environmental Hazards | 0.0% | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
| School Proximity to Traffic | Environmental Hazards | 0.0% | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
| Proximity to Brownfield Sites | Environmental Hazards | 0.0% | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
| Toxic Releases from Facilities | Environmental Hazards | 0.0% | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
| Proximity to Superfund Sites | Environmental Hazards | 0.0% | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
| Access to Parks and Open Space | Natural Areas | 100.0% | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
| Preventable Hospitalizations | Health Systems and Public Safety | - | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
| Blood Lead Levels in Children | Housing | -% | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
| Low Birth Weight | Health Systems and Public Safety | -% | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
| School Readiness Scores | Educational Opportunities | -% | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
Demographic and Contextual Indicators
| Neighborhood | City Wide | |
|---|---|---|
| Income Inequality | 0.5 | 0.49 |
| Concentrated Poverty | 82.8% | 30.9% |
| Life Expectancy | 73.4 | 78.8 |
| Population | 2,033 | 210,616 |
| Racial and Ethnic Diversity | 0 | 0.44 |
| Park Quality | 62.3 |