Healthy Communities Assessment Tool

North Titusville

North Titusville is a neighborhood in Birmingham's Titusville community. It is divided from South Titusville by the community's main street, 6th Avenue South, and from Smithfield to the north by the Alabama Great Southern Railroad. The neighborhood's boundaries are Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard to the west and I-65 to the east.

Indicator Details

Indicators	Primary Domain	Indicator Value	Rank	Tier	Indicator Weight
Abandoned Structures	Blight	21.4%	96	Bottom	5.00
Vacancy Rates	Housing	35.4%	95	Bottom	1.00
Visual Property Nuisances	Blight	31.3%	94	Bottom	5.00
Voter Participation	Social Cohesion	3.8%	93	Bottom	1.00
Public Assisted Households	Employment Opportunities	76.8%	91	Bottom	1.00
Access to Mainstream Financial Services	Economic Health	18.8%	90	Bottom	1.00
Offsite Alcohol Outlets	Neighborhood Characteristics	2.5	90	Bottom	1.00
Excessive Housing Cost Burden	Housing	49.5%	86	Bottom	1.00
Proximity to Brownfield Sites	Environmental Hazards	3.3%	83	Bottom	1.00
Tax Delinquent Properties	Blight	27.8%	80	Bottom	5.00
Access to Parks and Open Space	Natural Areas	74.2%	75	Bottom	1.00
Toxic Releases from Facilities	Environmental Hazards	100.0%	75	Bottom	1.00
Proximity to Superfund Sites	Environmental Hazards	20.3%	73	Bottom	1.00
Employment Rate	Employment Opportunities	79.5%	72	Bottom	1.00
Residential Mobility	Social Cohesion	78.0%	71	Bottom	1.00
Adult Educational Attainment	Educational Opportunities	73.0%	69	Bottom	3.00
Infant Mortality Rate	Health Systems and Public Safety	15.8	67	Bottom	1.00
Tree Cover	Natural Areas	0.6%	65	Middle	1.00
Violent Crime	Health Systems and Public Safety	110.6	63	Middle	4.00
Preschool Enrollment	Educational Opportunities	14.8%	62	Middle	3.00
Long-Term Unemployment	Employment Opportunities	4.1%	59	Middle	1.00
Travel Time to Work	Employment Opportunities	25.3	56	Middle	1.00
Pedestrian & Bicycle Injuries by Motor Vehicles	Health Systems and Public Safety	0.2	55	Middle	4.00
Payday Loans	Economic Health	0.7	49	Middle	1.00
Reading Proficiency	Educational Opportunities	12.7%	48	Middle	3.00
Age of Housing	Housing	82.8%	45	Middle	1.00
Business Retention	Economic Health	-7.8%	45	Middle	1.00
Local Business Vitality	Economic Health	62.0%	40	Middle	1.00
Walkability	Neighborhood Characteristics	65.5	39	Middle	4.00
Chronic School Absence	Health Systems and Public Safety	19.2%	37	Middle	1.00
Public Health Nuisances	Health Systems and Public Safety	58.5	36	Middle	4.00
Commute Mode Share	Transportation	21.4%	30	Top	4.00
Pedestrian Connectivity	Transportation	150	22	Top	4.00
Motor Vehicle Collisions	Health Systems and Public Safety	1.5	16	Top	4.00
High School Graduation Rate	Educational Opportunities	80.6%	15	Top	3.00
Land Use Mix	Neighborhood Characteristics	0.7	9	Top	1.00
Transit Accessibility	Transportation	16.2	9	Top	4.00
Food Desert	Neighborhood Characteristics	40.0%	8	Top	2.00
Household Transportation Costs	Transportation	20.1%	6	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
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
Preventable Hospitalizations	Health Systems and Public Safety	-	-	Data N/A	1.00

Demographic and Contextual Indicators

	Neighborhood	City Wide
Income Inequality	0.5	0.49
Concentrated Poverty	53.0%	30.9%
Life Expectancy	70.8	78.8
Population	2,805	210,616
Racial and Ethnic Diversity	0.1	0.44
Park Quality	80.8

These measures, while clearly significant to community health, may not fit the criteria of “actionable” at the neighborhood level or data may only be available at a city-wide level. Because individual neighborhoods may not have a direct impact on these measures, they have been excluded from the Neighborhood’s overall ranking. However, they are documented to provide “context” for the neighborhood which could potentially identify alternative avenues to improve community health.