Mason City
Mason City is a neighborhood in Birmingham's Southwest community. It is located west of Montevallo Road/Martin Luther King, Jr Drive, and south of the West End Manor and Woodland Park neighborhoods across the CSX Railroad tracks and Nabor's Branch. On the west it abuts the Powderly neighborhood, bounded by Cooper Green Park. Part of the neighborhood extends south of Spaulding-Ishkooda Road on the north slope of Red Mountain, abutting the Oxmoor neighborhood.
Indicator Details
| Indicators | Primary Domain | Indicator Value |
Rank |
Tier | Indicator Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Travel Time to Work | Employment Opportunities | 36.4 | 98 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Reading Proficiency | Educational Opportunities | 8.3% | 80 | Bottom | 3.00 |
| Public Assisted Households | Employment Opportunities | 63.0% | 78 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Walkability | Neighborhood Characteristics | 31.8 | 76 | Bottom | 4.00 |
| Household Transportation Costs | Transportation | 26.4% | 76 | Bottom | 4.00 |
| Adult Educational Attainment | Educational Opportunities | 71.8% | 74 | Bottom | 3.00 |
| Vacancy Rates | Housing | 24.7% | 73 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Pedestrian Connectivity | Transportation | 57 | 70 | Bottom | 4.00 |
| Toxic Releases from Facilities | Environmental Hazards | 95.5% | 69 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Offsite Alcohol Outlets | Neighborhood Characteristics | 1.1 | 67 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Local Business Vitality | Economic Health | 53.9% | 66 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Land Use Mix | Neighborhood Characteristics | 0.5 | 64 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Proximity to Superfund Sites | Environmental Hazards | 4.7% | 63 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Voter Participation | Social Cohesion | 4.9% | 63 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Payday Loans | Economic Health | 1.1 | 62 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Excessive Housing Cost Burden | Housing | 42.7% | 61 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Infant Mortality Rate | Health Systems and Public Safety | 14 | 57 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Transit Accessibility | Transportation | 4.2 | 56 | Middle | 4.00 |
| Access to Parks and Open Space | Natural Areas | 91.2% | 53 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Visual Property Nuisances | Blight | 14.1% | 51 | Middle | 5.00 |
| Public Health Nuisances | Health Systems and Public Safety | 69.4 | 48 | Middle | 4.00 |
| Chronic School Absence | Health Systems and Public Safety | 24.2% | 47 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Residential Mobility | Social Cohesion | 84.8% | 43 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Tax Delinquent Properties | Blight | 17.7% | 41 | Middle | 5.00 |
| Violent Crime | Health Systems and Public Safety | 78.9 | 40 | Middle | 4.00 |
| Access to Mainstream Financial Services | Economic Health | 37.8% | 34 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Food Desert | Neighborhood Characteristics | 71.4% | 34 | Middle | 2.00 |
| Long-Term Unemployment | Employment Opportunities | 2.7% | 33 | Top | 1.00 |
| Tree Cover | Natural Areas | 15.0% | 30 | Top | 1.00 |
| Motor Vehicle Collisions | Health Systems and Public Safety | 2.8 | 28 | Top | 4.00 |
| Employment Rate | Employment Opportunities | 88.1% | 27 | Top | 1.00 |
| Age of Housing | Housing | 70.5% | 18 | Top | 1.00 |
| Preschool Enrollment | Educational Opportunities | 44.4% | 13 | Top | 3.00 |
| High School Graduation Rate | Educational Opportunities | 83.0% | 12 | Top | 3.00 |
| Commute Mode Share | Transportation | 29.7% | 11 | Top | 4.00 |
| Abandoned Structures | Blight | 3.9% | 10 | Top | 5.00 |
| Business Retention | Economic Health | 36.8% | 6 | Top | 1.00 |
| Pedestrian & Bicycle Injuries by Motor Vehicles | Health Systems and Public Safety | 0 | 1 | Top | 4.00 |
| Residential Proximity to Traffic | Environmental Hazards | 0.0% | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
| School Proximity to Traffic | Environmental Hazards | 0.0% | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
| Proximity to Brownfield Sites | Environmental Hazards | 0.0% | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
| Preventable Hospitalizations | Health Systems and Public Safety | - | - | Data N/A | 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 |
| School Readiness Scores | Educational Opportunities | -% | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
Demographic and Contextual Indicators
| Neighborhood | City Wide | |
|---|---|---|
| Income Inequality | 0.4 | 0.49 |
| Concentrated Poverty | 47.7% | 30.9% |
| Life Expectancy | 73.1 | 78.8 |
| Population | 951 | 210,616 |
| Racial and Ethnic Diversity | 0 | 0.44 |
| Park Quality | 94.6 |