Gate City
Gate City is a neighborhood in the East Lake community of Birmingham. It occupies the area north of I-20 and south of the East Lake neighborhood, centered on Georgia Road and including the Marks Village housing project. which was constructed in the 1950s. It is bordered by South Woodlawn to the west, Oak Ridge Park and Eastwood to the south, and Brown Springs to the east. Gate City was named because it was the first Birmingham neighborhood entered through Red Gap from Irondale to the northeast. Five major railroads used that approach into Birmingham.
Indicator Details
Indicators | Primary Domain | Indicator Value | Rank | Tier | Indicator Weight |
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Payday Loans | Economic Health | 1.5 | 76 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Business Retention | Economic Health | 0.0% | 22 | Top | 1.00 |
Access to Mainstream Financial Services | Economic Health | 10.4% | 98 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Local Business Vitality | Economic Health | 71.4% | 22 | Top | 1.00 |
School Readiness Scores | Educational Opportunities | -% | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
Preschool Enrollment | Educational Opportunities | 20.5% | 47 | Middle | 3.00 |
Reading Proficiency | Educational Opportunities | 6.5% | 88 | Bottom | 3.00 |
Adult Educational Attainment | Educational Opportunities | 59.4% | 99 | Bottom | 3.00 |
High School Graduation Rate | Educational Opportunities | 72.4% | 86 | Bottom | 3.00 |
Residential Proximity to Traffic | Environmental Hazards | 0.0% | 1 | Top | 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 | 0.0% | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
Toxic Releases from Facilities | Environmental Hazards | 0.0% | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
Long-Term Unemployment | Employment Opportunities | 10.0% | 98 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Travel Time to Work | Employment Opportunities | 25.4 | 59 | Middle | 1.00 |
Public Assisted Households | Employment Opportunities | 116.7% | 99 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Employment Rate | Employment Opportunities | 65.5% | 94 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Excessive Housing Cost Burden | Housing | 47.4% | 80 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Vacancy Rates | Housing | 14.6% | 33 | Top | 1.00 |
Age of Housing | Housing | 90.7% | 81 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Blood Lead Levels in Children | Housing | -% | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
Low Birth Weight | Health Systems and Public Safety | -% | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
Motor Vehicle Collisions | Health Systems and Public Safety | 1.3 | 12 | Top | 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 | 1 | Top | 4.00 |
Public Health Nuisances | Health Systems and Public Safety | 9.8 | 3 | Top | 4.00 |
Infant Mortality Rate | Health Systems and Public Safety | 16 | 71 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Violent Crime | Health Systems and Public Safety | 196.7 | 87 | Bottom | 4.00 |
Chronic School Absence | Health Systems and Public Safety | 32.9% | 86 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Tree Cover | Natural Areas | 8.2% | 42 | Middle | 1.00 |
Access to Parks and Open Space | Natural Areas | 100.0% | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
Food Desert | Neighborhood Characteristics | 75.0% | 38 | Middle | 2.00 |
Land Use Mix | Neighborhood Characteristics | 0.6 | 39 | Middle | 1.00 |
Walkability | Neighborhood Characteristics | 33.3 | 70 | Bottom | 4.00 |
Offsite Alcohol Outlets | Neighborhood Characteristics | 0.5 | 50 | Middle | 1.00 |
Residential Mobility | Social Cohesion | 81.7% | 59 | Middle | 1.00 |
Voter Participation | Social Cohesion | 8.2% | 6 | Top | 1.00 |
Household Transportation Costs | Transportation | 22.5% | 17 | Top | 4.00 |
Pedestrian Connectivity | Transportation | 126 | 35 | Middle | 4.00 |
Transit Accessibility | Transportation | 8.2 | 19 | Top | 4.00 |
Commute Mode Share | Transportation | 17.8% | 44 | Middle | 4.00 |
Abandoned Structures | Blight | 12.5% | 61 | Middle | 5.00 |
Tax Delinquent Properties | Blight | 29.3% | 87 | Bottom | 5.00 |
Visual Property Nuisances | Blight | 37.4% | 98 | Bottom | 5.00 |
Demographic and Contextual Indicators
Neighborhood | City Wide | |
---|---|---|
Income Inequality | 0.5 | 0.49 |
Concentrated Poverty | 82.8% | 30.9% |
Life Expectancy | 73.4 | 78.8 |
Population | 2,033 | 210,616 |
Racial and Ethnic Diversity | 0 | 0.44 |
Park Quality | 62.3 |