Collegeville
Collegeville developed as an industrial area with worker's housing built adjacent to factories and mills owned by the Sloss-Sheffield Corporation, L&N Railroad, Southern Railroad, U. S. Pipe, Jim Walters Corporation and GATX Tank Corporation. The neighborhood took its name from the Lauderdale College elementary school, sometimes called "the college", which operated at the corner of 27th Court and 34th Place North until it burned in 1916.
Indicator Details
| Indicators |
Primary Domain |
Indicator Value | Rank | Tier | Indicator Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Access to Mainstream Financial Services | Economic Health | 20.1% | 87 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Local Business Vitality | Economic Health | 40.3% | 87 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Payday Loans | Economic Health | 0.4 | 42 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Business Retention | Economic Health | -10.5% | 58 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Adult Educational Attainment | Educational Opportunities | 71.7% | 75 | Bottom | 3.00 |
| High School Graduation Rate | Educational Opportunities | 75.9% | 57 | Middle | 3.00 |
| School Readiness Scores | Educational Opportunities | -% | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
| Preschool Enrollment | Educational Opportunities | 19.0% | 51 | Middle | 3.00 |
| Reading Proficiency | Educational Opportunities | 13.7% | 40 | Middle | 3.00 |
| Residential Proximity to Traffic | Environmental Hazards | 0.0% | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
| Proximity to Brownfield Sites | Environmental Hazards | 52.6% | 99 | Bottom | 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 | 73.1% | 90 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Long-Term Unemployment | Employment Opportunities | 5.0% | 75 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Travel Time to Work | Employment Opportunities | 27 | 79 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Public Assisted Households | Employment Opportunities | 84.8% | 94 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Blood Lead Levels in Children | Housing | -% | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
| Excessive Housing Cost Burden | Housing | 56.8% | 95 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Vacancy Rates | Housing | 25.4% | 75 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Age of Housing | Housing | 96.4% | 98 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Low Birth Weight | Health Systems and Public Safety | -% | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
| Motor Vehicle Collisions | Health Systems and Public Safety | 3.7 | 39 | Middle | 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 | 0.5 | 81 | Bottom | 4.00 |
| Public Health Nuisances | Health Systems and Public Safety | 81.6 | 64 | Middle | 4.00 |
| Infant Mortality Rate | Health Systems and Public Safety | 17.5 | 79 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Violent Crime | Health Systems and Public Safety | 85.1 | 44 | Middle | 4.00 |
| Chronic School Absence | Health Systems and Public Safety | 19.1% | 35 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Tree Cover | Natural Areas | 0.3% | 73 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Access to Parks and Open Space | Natural Areas | 89.0% | 58 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Food Desert | Neighborhood Characteristics | 100.0% | 56 | Middle | 2.00 |
| Walkability | Neighborhood Characteristics | 57 | 44 | Middle | 4.00 |
| Land Use Mix | Neighborhood Characteristics | 0.4 | 76 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Offsite Alcohol Outlets | Neighborhood Characteristics | 1.2 | 72 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Residential Mobility | Social Cohesion | 88.1% | 27 | Top | 1.00 |
| Voter Participation | Social Cohesion | 3.8% | 93 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Household Transportation Costs | Transportation | 24.0% | 38 | Middle | 4.00 |
| Pedestrian Connectivity | Transportation | 119 | 40 | Middle | 4.00 |
| Transit Accessibility | Transportation | 3.5 | 66 | Middle | 4.00 |
| Commute Mode Share | Transportation | 36.2% | 5 | Top | 4.00 |
| Abandoned Structures | Blight | 16.3% | 76 | Bottom | 5.00 |
| Tax Delinquent Properties | Blight | 26.8% | 77 | Bottom | 5.00 |
| Visual Property Nuisances | Blight | 25.7% | 82 | Bottom | 5.00 |
Demographic and Contextual Indicators
| Neighborhood | City Wide | |
|---|---|---|
| Income Inequality | 0.5 | 0.49 |
| Concentrated Poverty | 67.1% | 30.9% |
| Life Expectancy | 67.8 | 78.8 |
| Population | 2,597 | 210,616 |
| Racial and Ethnic Diversity | 0 | 0.44 |
| Park Quality | 74.2 |