Woodlawn
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Retention | Economic Health | 3.3% | 19 | Top | 1.00 |
| Access to Mainstream Financial Services | Economic Health | 28.1% | 63 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Local Business Vitality | Economic Health | 54.5% | 62 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Payday Loans | Economic Health | 0.3 | 39 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Adult Educational Attainment | Educational Opportunities | 71.5% | 77 | Bottom | 3.00 |
| High School Graduation Rate | Educational Opportunities | 72.4% | 86 | Bottom | 3.00 |
| School Readiness Scores | Educational Opportunities | -% | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
| Preschool Enrollment | Educational Opportunities | 55.7% | 5 | Top | 3.00 |
| Reading Proficiency | Educational Opportunities | 13.1% | 44 | Middle | 3.00 |
| Residential Proximity to Traffic | Environmental Hazards | 14.6% | 91 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Proximity to Brownfield Sites | Environmental Hazards | 0.5% | 76 | Bottom | 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 |
| Toxic Releases from Facilities | Environmental Hazards | 82.2% | 55 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Public Assisted Households | Employment Opportunities | 60.2% | 74 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Employment Rate | Employment Opportunities | 84.5% | 51 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Long-Term Unemployment | Employment Opportunities | 4.1% | 59 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Travel Time to Work | Employment Opportunities | 21.2 | 27 | Top | 1.00 |
| Age of Housing | Housing | 77.1% | 31 | Top | 1.00 |
| Blood Lead Levels in Children | Housing | -% | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
| Excessive Housing Cost Burden | Housing | 36.9% | 38 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Vacancy Rates | Housing | 24.5% | 71 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Public Health Nuisances | Health Systems and Public Safety | 106.5 | 84 | Bottom | 4.00 |
| Infant Mortality Rate | Health Systems and Public Safety | 13.1 | 52 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Violent Crime | Health Systems and Public Safety | 183.6 | 85 | Bottom | 4.00 |
| Chronic School Absence | Health Systems and Public Safety | 31.1% | 80 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Low Birth Weight | Health Systems and Public Safety | -% | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
| Motor Vehicle Collisions | Health Systems and Public Safety | 21.9 | 87 | 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 |
| Tree Cover | Natural Areas | 0.4% | 71 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Access to Parks and Open Space | Natural Areas | 79.1% | 71 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Walkability | Neighborhood Characteristics | 82 | 7 | Top | 4.00 |
| Land Use Mix | Neighborhood Characteristics | 0.7 | 9 | Top | 1.00 |
| Offsite Alcohol Outlets | Neighborhood Characteristics | 1.4 | 77 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Food Desert | Neighborhood Characteristics | 85.7% | 52 | Middle | 2.00 |
| Residential Mobility | Social Cohesion | 89.1% | 23 | Top | 1.00 |
| Voter Participation | Social Cohesion | 4.9% | 63 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Transit Accessibility | Transportation | 5.9 | 36 | Middle | 4.00 |
| Commute Mode Share | Transportation | 20.2% | 36 | Middle | 4.00 |
| Household Transportation Costs | Transportation | 22.6% | 19 | Top | 4.00 |
| Pedestrian Connectivity | Transportation | 120 | 39 | Middle | 4.00 |
| Abandoned Structures | Blight | 15.1% | 68 | Bottom | 5.00 |
| Tax Delinquent Properties | Blight | 27.3% | 78 | Bottom | 5.00 |
| Visual Property Nuisances | Blight | 37.3% | 97 | Bottom | 5.00 |
Demographic and Contextual Indicators
| Neighborhood | City Wide | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |