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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 Domainsort descending Indicator Value Rank Tier Indicator Weight
Business Retention Economic Health 36.8% 6 Top 1.00
Access to Mainstream Financial Services Economic Health 37.8% 34 Middle 1.00
Local Business Vitality Economic Health 53.9% 66 Middle 1.00
Payday Loans Economic Health 1.1 62 Middle 1.00
Adult Educational Attainment Educational Opportunities 71.8% 74 Bottom 3.00
High School Graduation Rate Educational Opportunities 83.0% 12 Top 3.00
School Readiness Scores Educational Opportunities -% - Data N/A 1.00
Preschool Enrollment Educational Opportunities 44.4% 13 Top 3.00
Reading Proficiency Educational Opportunities 8.3% 80 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 4.7% 63 Middle 1.00
Toxic Releases from Facilities Environmental Hazards 95.5% 69 Bottom 1.00
Public Assisted Households Employment Opportunities 63.0% 78 Bottom 1.00
Employment Rate Employment Opportunities 88.1% 27 Top 1.00
Long-Term Unemployment Employment Opportunities 2.7% 33 Top 1.00
Travel Time to Work Employment Opportunities 36.4 98 Bottom 1.00
Age of Housing Housing 70.5% 18 Top 1.00
Blood Lead Levels in Children Housing -% - Data N/A 1.00
Excessive Housing Cost Burden Housing 42.7% 61 Middle 1.00
Vacancy Rates Housing 24.7% 73 Bottom 1.00
Violent Crime Health Systems and Public Safety 78.9 40 Middle 4.00
Chronic School Absence Health Systems and Public Safety 24.2% 47 Middle 1.00
Low Birth Weight Health Systems and Public Safety -% - Data N/A 1.00
Motor Vehicle Collisions Health Systems and Public Safety 2.8 28 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 69.4 48 Middle 4.00
Infant Mortality Rate Health Systems and Public Safety 14 57 Middle 1.00
Tree Cover Natural Areas 15.0% 30 Top 1.00
Access to Parks and Open Space Natural Areas 91.2% 53 Middle 1.00
Food Desert Neighborhood Characteristics 71.4% 34 Middle 2.00
Land Use Mix Neighborhood Characteristics 0.5 64 Middle 1.00
Walkability Neighborhood Characteristics 31.8 76 Bottom 4.00
Offsite Alcohol Outlets Neighborhood Characteristics 1.1 67 Bottom 1.00
Residential Mobility Social Cohesion 84.8% 43 Middle 1.00
Voter Participation Social Cohesion 4.9% 63 Middle 1.00
Commute Mode Share Transportation 29.7% 11 Top 4.00
Household Transportation Costs Transportation 26.4% 76 Bottom 4.00
Pedestrian Connectivity Transportation 57 70 Bottom 4.00
Transit Accessibility Transportation 4.2 56 Middle 4.00
Abandoned Structures Blight 3.9% 10 Top 5.00
Tax Delinquent Properties Blight 17.7% 41 Middle 5.00
Visual Property Nuisances Blight 14.1% 51 Middle 5.00

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
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