Acipco-Finley (or ACIPCO-Finley) is a neighborhood in the North Birmingham community which lies north of Village Creek and west of I-65. Finley Boulevard is the major east-west corridor through the neighborhood, and 16th Street North crosses the eastern portion, running north-south. The neighborhood includes the Birmingham Farmers Market and the headquarters of the American Cast Iron Pipe Company (ACIPCO). The community is named after the Finley Memorial Yard, a rail yard built by the Southern Railway in 1915, and named after railroad president William Finley. The combined name of the neighborhood incorporates the abbreviated name of the American Cast Iron Pipe Company, whose workers resided in the vicinity.
Indicator Details
Indicators | Primary Domain | Indicator Value | Rank | Tier | Indicator Weight |
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Access to Mainstream Financial Services | Economic Health | 32.9% | 52 | Middle | 1.00 |
Local Business Vitality | Economic Health | 45.8% | 80 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Payday Loans | Economic Health | 2.2 | 85 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Business Retention | Economic Health | -21.7% | 90 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Adult Educational Attainment | Educational Opportunities | 71.0% | 82 | Bottom | 3.00 |
High School Graduation Rate | Educational Opportunities | 78.4% | 46 | Middle | 3.00 |
School Readiness Scores | Educational Opportunities | -% | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
Preschool Enrollment | Educational Opportunities | 18.0% | 54 | Middle | 3.00 |
Reading Proficiency | Educational Opportunities | 14.4% | 38 | Middle | 3.00 |
Residential Proximity to Traffic | Environmental Hazards | 12.9% | 89 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Proximity to Brownfield Sites | Environmental Hazards | 3.2% | 81 | Bottom | 1.00 |
School Proximity to Traffic | Environmental Hazards | 0.0% | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
Proximity to Superfund Sites | Environmental Hazards | 61.7% | 86 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Toxic Releases from Facilities | Environmental Hazards | 100.0% | 75 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Public Assisted Households | Employment Opportunities | 43.1% | 49 | Middle | 1.00 |
Employment Rate | Employment Opportunities | 84.6% | 48 | Middle | 1.00 |
Long-Term Unemployment | Employment Opportunities | 1.4% | 13 | Top | 1.00 |
Travel Time to Work | Employment Opportunities | 24.3 | 45 | Middle | 1.00 |
Blood Lead Levels in Children | Housing | -% | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
Excessive Housing Cost Burden | Housing | 41.2% | 52 | Middle | 1.00 |
Vacancy Rates | Housing | 18.7% | 42 | Middle | 1.00 |
Age of Housing | Housing | 74.7% | 30 | Top | 1.00 |
Chronic School Absence | Health Systems and Public Safety | 13.3% | 22 | Top | 1.00 |
Low Birth Weight | Health Systems and Public Safety | -% | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
Motor Vehicle Collisions | Health Systems and Public Safety | 28 | 90 | 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 | 0.4 | 73 | Bottom | 4.00 |
Public Health Nuisances | Health Systems and Public Safety | 123.2 | 88 | Bottom | 4.00 |
Infant Mortality Rate | Health Systems and Public Safety | 9.7 | 22 | Top | 1.00 |
Violent Crime | Health Systems and Public Safety | 172.5 | 83 | Bottom | 4.00 |
Tree Cover | Natural Areas | 2.1% | 58 | Middle | 1.00 |
Access to Parks and Open Space | Natural Areas | 93.5% | 50 | Middle | 1.00 |
Food Desert | Neighborhood Characteristics | 100.0% | 56 | Middle | 2.00 |
Walkability | Neighborhood Characteristics | 84.5 | 3 | Top | 4.00 |
Land Use Mix | Neighborhood Characteristics | 0.7 | 9 | Top | 1.00 |
Offsite Alcohol Outlets | Neighborhood Characteristics | 5.6 | 98 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Residential Mobility | Social Cohesion | 85.0% | 40 | Middle | 1.00 |
Voter Participation | Social Cohesion | 4.7% | 70 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Commute Mode Share | Transportation | 26.6% | 18 | Top | 4.00 |
Household Transportation Costs | Transportation | 23.9% | 36 | Middle | 4.00 |
Pedestrian Connectivity | Transportation | 84 | 56 | Middle | 4.00 |
Transit Accessibility | Transportation | 5.3 | 43 | Middle | 4.00 |
Abandoned Structures | Blight | 16.0% | 71 | Bottom | 5.00 |
Tax Delinquent Properties | Blight | 17.7% | 41 | Middle | 5.00 |
Visual Property Nuisances | Blight | 23.5% | 75 | Bottom | 5.00 |
Demographic and Contextual Indicators
Neighborhood | City Wide | |
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Income Inequality | 0.4 | 0.49 |
Concentrated Poverty | 24.3% | 30.9% |
Life Expectancy | 69.6 | 78.8 |
Population | 892 | 210,616 |
Racial and Ethnic Diversity | 0.4 | 0.44 |
Park Quality | 60.1 |