Healthy Communities Assessment Tool

South Titusville

South Titusville is a neighborhood in the Titusville community of Birmingham. It is divided from North Titusville by the community's main street, 6th Avenue South, and from the Woodland Park neighborhood to the south by Green Springs Avenue. South Titusville is predominantly residential.

Indicator Details

Indicators	Primary Domain	Indicator Value	Rank	Tier	Indicator Weight
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
Reading Proficiency	Educational Opportunities	33.8%	1	Top	3.00
Proximity to Brownfield Sites	Environmental Hazards	0.0%	1	Top	1.00
School Proximity to Traffic	Environmental Hazards	0.0%	1	Top	1.00
Food Desert	Neighborhood Characteristics	37.5%	6	Top	2.00
Violent Crime	Health Systems and Public Safety	52	14	Top	4.00
High School Graduation Rate	Educational Opportunities	80.6%	15	Top	3.00
Employment Rate	Employment Opportunities	92.2%	15	Top	1.00
Travel Time to Work	Employment Opportunities	20.3	16	Top	1.00
Public Assisted Households	Employment Opportunities	23.6%	17	Top	1.00
Chronic School Absence	Health Systems and Public Safety	11.5%	18	Top	1.00
Household Transportation Costs	Transportation	22.7%	21	Top	4.00
Motor Vehicle Collisions	Health Systems and Public Safety	2.3	23	Top	4.00
Voter Participation	Social Cohesion	7.1%	24	Top	1.00
Long-Term Unemployment	Employment Opportunities	2.3%	27	Top	1.00
Transit Accessibility	Transportation	6.7	27	Top	4.00
Tax Delinquent Properties	Blight	11.1%	31	Top	5.00
Pedestrian Connectivity	Transportation	137	32	Top	4.00
Access to Mainstream Financial Services	Economic Health	37.7%	35	Middle	1.00
Walkability	Neighborhood Characteristics	65.5	39	Middle	4.00
Public Health Nuisances	Health Systems and Public Safety	62.8	42	Middle	4.00
Offsite Alcohol Outlets	Neighborhood Characteristics	0.4	45	Middle	1.00
Adult Educational Attainment	Educational Opportunities	78.8%	45	Middle	3.00
Payday Loans	Economic Health	0.7	49	Middle	1.00
Vacancy Rates	Housing	20.6%	51	Middle	1.00
Visual Property Nuisances	Blight	14.7%	52	Middle	5.00
Residential Mobility	Social Cohesion	82.2%	53	Middle	1.00
Access to Parks and Open Space	Natural Areas	89.2%	56	Middle	1.00
Abandoned Structures	Blight	12.0%	57	Middle	5.00
Proximity to Superfund Sites	Environmental Hazards	2.8%	58	Middle	1.00
Age of Housing	Housing	86.3%	58	Middle	1.00
Business Retention	Economic Health	-11.3%	62	Middle	1.00
Commute Mode Share	Transportation	12.4%	63	Middle	4.00
Local Business Vitality	Economic Health	54.0%	65	Middle	1.00
Pedestrian & Bicycle Injuries by Motor Vehicles	Health Systems and Public Safety	0.4	73	Bottom	4.00
Toxic Releases from Facilities	Environmental Hazards	98.2%	73	Bottom	1.00
Tree Cover	Natural Areas	0.0%	77	Bottom	1.00
Residential Proximity to Traffic	Environmental Hazards	5.0%	79	Bottom	1.00
Land Use Mix	Neighborhood Characteristics	0.3	83	Bottom	1.00
Infant Mortality Rate	Health Systems and Public Safety	18.2	83	Bottom	1.00
Preschool Enrollment	Educational Opportunities	0.0%	87	Bottom	3.00
Excessive Housing Cost Burden	Housing	56.3%	93	Bottom	1.00

Demographic and Contextual Indicators

	Neighborhood	City Wide
Income Inequality	0.4	0.49
Concentrated Poverty	37.1%	30.9%
Life Expectancy	71.6	78.8
Population	2,788	210,616
Racial and Ethnic Diversity	0.1	0.44
Park Quality	45.6

These measures, while clearly significant to community health, may not fit the criteria of “actionable” at the neighborhood level or data may only be available at a city-wide level. Because individual neighborhoods may not have a direct impact on these measures, they have been excluded from the Neighborhood’s overall ranking. However, they are documented to provide “context” for the neighborhood which could potentially identify alternative avenues to improve community health.