Woodlawn is a neighborhood in the Woodlawn Community. Present-day Woodlawn was settled by a group of farming families who entered the area in 1815, just as it was opened to settlement by the Treaty of Fort Jackson. The community took its name from the Wood family, headed by Obadiah Washington Wood. In 1891 the community was incorporated as the City of Woodlawn. In 1910 the City of Woodlawn was annexed into Birmingham as part of the Greater Birmingham campaign. The neighborhood encompasses a large portion of the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport and is adjacent to the neighborhoods of Inglenook, Kingston, North East Lake, Wahouma, and South Woodlawn.
Indicator Details
Indicators | Primary Domain | Indicator Value | Rank | Tier | Indicator Weight |
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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 |
Preventable Hospitalizations | Health Systems and Public Safety | - | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
School Proximity to Traffic | Environmental Hazards | 0.0% | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
Proximity to Superfund Sites | Environmental Hazards | 0.0% | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
Preschool Enrollment | Educational Opportunities | 55.7% | 5 | Top | 3.00 |
Walkability | Neighborhood Characteristics | 82 | 7 | Top | 4.00 |
Land Use Mix | Neighborhood Characteristics | 0.7 | 9 | Top | 1.00 |
Business Retention | Economic Health | 3.3% | 19 | Top | 1.00 |
Household Transportation Costs | Transportation | 22.6% | 19 | Top | 4.00 |
Residential Mobility | Social Cohesion | 89.1% | 23 | Top | 1.00 |
Travel Time to Work | Employment Opportunities | 21.2 | 27 | Top | 1.00 |
Age of Housing | Housing | 77.1% | 31 | Top | 1.00 |
Commute Mode Share | Transportation | 20.2% | 36 | Middle | 4.00 |
Transit Accessibility | Transportation | 5.9 | 36 | Middle | 4.00 |
Excessive Housing Cost Burden | Housing | 36.9% | 38 | Middle | 1.00 |
Pedestrian Connectivity | Transportation | 120 | 39 | Middle | 4.00 |
Payday Loans | Economic Health | 0.3 | 39 | Middle | 1.00 |
Reading Proficiency | Educational Opportunities | 13.1% | 44 | Middle | 3.00 |
Employment Rate | Employment Opportunities | 84.5% | 51 | Middle | 1.00 |
Food Desert | Neighborhood Characteristics | 85.7% | 52 | Middle | 2.00 |
Infant Mortality Rate | Health Systems and Public Safety | 13.1 | 52 | Middle | 1.00 |
Toxic Releases from Facilities | Environmental Hazards | 82.2% | 55 | Middle | 1.00 |
Long-Term Unemployment | Employment Opportunities | 4.1% | 59 | Middle | 1.00 |
Local Business Vitality | Economic Health | 54.5% | 62 | Middle | 1.00 |
Voter Participation | Social Cohesion | 4.9% | 63 | Middle | 1.00 |
Access to Mainstream Financial Services | Economic Health | 28.1% | 63 | Middle | 1.00 |
Abandoned Structures | Blight | 15.1% | 68 | Bottom | 5.00 |
Tree Cover | Natural Areas | 0.4% | 71 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Access to Parks and Open Space | Natural Areas | 79.1% | 71 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Vacancy Rates | Housing | 24.5% | 71 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Public Assisted Households | Employment Opportunities | 60.2% | 74 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Proximity to Brownfield Sites | Environmental Hazards | 0.5% | 76 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Adult Educational Attainment | Educational Opportunities | 71.5% | 77 | Bottom | 3.00 |
Offsite Alcohol Outlets | Neighborhood Characteristics | 1.4 | 77 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Tax Delinquent Properties | Blight | 27.3% | 78 | Bottom | 5.00 |
Chronic School Absence | Health Systems and Public Safety | 31.1% | 80 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Public Health Nuisances | Health Systems and Public Safety | 106.5 | 84 | Bottom | 4.00 |
Violent Crime | Health Systems and Public Safety | 183.6 | 85 | Bottom | 4.00 |
High School Graduation Rate | Educational Opportunities | 72.4% | 86 | Bottom | 3.00 |
Motor Vehicle Collisions | Health Systems and Public Safety | 21.9 | 87 | Bottom | 4.00 |
Residential Proximity to Traffic | Environmental Hazards | 14.6% | 91 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Pedestrian & Bicycle Injuries by Motor Vehicles | Health Systems and Public Safety | 1.5 | 93 | Bottom | 4.00 |
Visual Property Nuisances | Blight | 37.3% | 97 | Bottom | 5.00 |
Demographic and Contextual Indicators
Neighborhood | City Wide | |
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Income Inequality | 0.5 | 0.49 |
Concentrated Poverty | 36.5% | 30.9% |
Life Expectancy | 71.7 | 78.8 |
Population | 2,885 | 210,616 |
Racial and Ethnic Diversity | 0.5 | 0.44 |
Park Quality | 55 |