Southside
Southside is a neighborhood in Birmingham's Southside community. It is bound on the north by the Railroad Reservation; on the west by 22nd Street South; to the south by 10th Avenue South (west of the Elton B. Stephens Expressway), University Boulevard (between the Expressway and 32nd Street South), and 6th Avenue South (east of 32nd Street); and to the east by 37th Street South.
Indicator Details
| Indicators |
Primary Domain |
Indicator Value | Rank | Tier | Indicator Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Access to Mainstream Financial Services | Economic Health | 17.8% | 92 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Local Business Vitality | Economic Health | 42.4% | 84 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Payday Loans | Economic Health | 0 | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
| Business Retention | Economic Health | -1.4% | 32 | Top | 1.00 |
| Adult Educational Attainment | Educational Opportunities | 80.3% | 39 | Middle | 3.00 |
| High School Graduation Rate | Educational Opportunities | 74.1% | 80 | Bottom | 3.00 |
| School Readiness Scores | Educational Opportunities | -% | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
| Preschool Enrollment | Educational Opportunities | 22.4% | 44 | Middle | 3.00 |
| Reading Proficiency | Educational Opportunities | 8.9% | 73 | Bottom | 3.00 |
| Residential Proximity to Traffic | Environmental Hazards | 56.6% | 99 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Proximity to Brownfield Sites | Environmental Hazards | 0.0% | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
| School Proximity to Traffic | Environmental Hazards | 0.0% | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
| Proximity to Superfund Sites | Environmental Hazards | 100.0% | 95 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Toxic Releases from Facilities | Environmental Hazards | 100.0% | 75 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Employment Rate | Employment Opportunities | 53.7% | 99 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Long-Term Unemployment | Employment Opportunities | 10.1% | 99 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Travel Time to Work | Employment Opportunities | 22 | 34 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Public Assisted Households | Employment Opportunities | 91.9% | 96 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Blood Lead Levels in Children | Housing | -% | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
| Excessive Housing Cost Burden | Housing | 36.3% | 34 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Vacancy Rates | Housing | 6.7% | 4 | Top | 1.00 |
| Age of Housing | Housing | 77.6% | 32 | Top | 1.00 |
| Low Birth Weight | Health Systems and Public Safety | -% | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
| Motor Vehicle Collisions | Health Systems and Public Safety | 41.7 | 95 | Bottom | 4.00 |
| Preventable Hospitalizations | Health Systems and Public Safety | - | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
| Pedestrian & Bicycle Injuries by Motor Vehicles | Health Systems and Public Safety | 1.5 | 93 | Bottom | 4.00 |
| Public Health Nuisances | Health Systems and Public Safety | 17 | 12 | Top | 4.00 |
| Infant Mortality Rate | Health Systems and Public Safety | 21.3 | 95 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Violent Crime | Health Systems and Public Safety | 211.7 | 90 | Bottom | 4.00 |
| Chronic School Absence | Health Systems and Public Safety | 26.4% | 64 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Tree Cover | Natural Areas | 0.0% | 77 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Access to Parks and Open Space | Natural Areas | 100.0% | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
| Food Desert | Neighborhood Characteristics | 55.6% | 19 | Top | 2.00 |
| Walkability | Neighborhood Characteristics | 92.8 | 1 | Top | 4.00 |
| Land Use Mix | Neighborhood Characteristics | 0.8 | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
| Offsite Alcohol Outlets | Neighborhood Characteristics | 3.8 | 94 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Residential Mobility | Social Cohesion | 71.6% | 88 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Voter Participation | Social Cohesion | 5.2% | 55 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Household Transportation Costs | Transportation | 18.5% | 2 | Top | 4.00 |
| Pedestrian Connectivity | Transportation | 163 | 16 | Top | 4.00 |
| Transit Accessibility | Transportation | 91.3 | 1 | Top | 4.00 |
| Commute Mode Share | Transportation | 32.2% | 8 | Top | 4.00 |
| Abandoned Structures | Blight | 11.2% | 48 | Middle | 5.00 |
| Tax Delinquent Properties | Blight | 1.5% | 10 | Top | 5.00 |
| Visual Property Nuisances | Blight | 5.6% | 23 | Top | 5.00 |
Demographic and Contextual Indicators
| Neighborhood | City Wide | |
|---|---|---|
| Income Inequality | 0.5 | 0.49 |
| Concentrated Poverty | 83.9% | 30.9% |
| Life Expectancy | 75.5 | 78.8 |
| Population | 1,591 | 210,616 |
| Racial and Ethnic Diversity | 0.4 | 0.44 |
| Park Quality | 69.6 |