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
Payday Loans	Economic Health	0.7	49	Middle	1.00
Business Retention	Economic Health	-7.8%	45	Middle	1.00
Access to Mainstream Financial Services	Economic Health	18.8%	90	Bottom	1.00
Local Business Vitality	Economic Health	62.0%	40	Middle	1.00
Preschool Enrollment	Educational Opportunities	14.8%	62	Middle	3.00
Reading Proficiency	Educational Opportunities	12.7%	48	Middle	3.00
Adult Educational Attainment	Educational Opportunities	73.0%	69	Bottom	3.00
High School Graduation Rate	Educational Opportunities	80.6%	15	Top	3.00
School Readiness Scores	Educational Opportunities	-%	-	Data N/A	1.00
Residential Proximity to Traffic	Environmental Hazards	0.0%	1	Top	1.00
Proximity to Brownfield Sites	Environmental Hazards	3.3%	83	Bottom	1.00
School Proximity to Traffic	Environmental Hazards	0.0%	1	Top	1.00
Proximity to Superfund Sites	Environmental Hazards	20.3%	73	Bottom	1.00
Toxic Releases from Facilities	Environmental Hazards	100.0%	75	Bottom	1.00
Long-Term Unemployment	Employment Opportunities	4.1%	59	Middle	1.00
Travel Time to Work	Employment Opportunities	25.3	56	Middle	1.00
Public Assisted Households	Employment Opportunities	76.8%	91	Bottom	1.00
Employment Rate	Employment Opportunities	79.5%	72	Bottom	1.00
Vacancy Rates	Housing	35.4%	95	Bottom	1.00
Age of Housing	Housing	82.8%	45	Middle	1.00
Blood Lead Levels in Children	Housing	-%	-	Data N/A	1.00
Excessive Housing Cost Burden	Housing	49.5%	86	Bottom	1.00
Preventable Hospitalizations	Health Systems and Public Safety	-	-	Data N/A	1.00
Pedestrian & Bicycle Injuries by Motor Vehicles	Health Systems and Public Safety	0.2	55	Middle	4.00
Public Health Nuisances	Health Systems and Public Safety	58.5	36	Middle	4.00
Infant Mortality Rate	Health Systems and Public Safety	15.8	67	Bottom	1.00
Violent Crime	Health Systems and Public Safety	110.6	63	Middle	4.00
Chronic School Absence	Health Systems and Public Safety	19.2%	37	Middle	1.00
Low Birth Weight	Health Systems and Public Safety	-%	-	Data N/A	1.00
Motor Vehicle Collisions	Health Systems and Public Safety	1.5	16	Top	4.00
Tree Cover	Natural Areas	0.6%	65	Middle	1.00
Access to Parks and Open Space	Natural Areas	74.2%	75	Bottom	1.00
Walkability	Neighborhood Characteristics	65.5	39	Middle	4.00
Land Use Mix	Neighborhood Characteristics	0.7	9	Top	1.00
Offsite Alcohol Outlets	Neighborhood Characteristics	2.5	90	Bottom	1.00
Food Desert	Neighborhood Characteristics	40.0%	8	Top	2.00
Residential Mobility	Social Cohesion	78.0%	71	Bottom	1.00
Voter Participation	Social Cohesion	3.8%	93	Bottom	1.00
Transit Accessibility	Transportation	16.2	9	Top	4.00
Commute Mode Share	Transportation	21.4%	30	Top	4.00
Household Transportation Costs	Transportation	20.1%	6	Top	4.00
Pedestrian Connectivity	Transportation	150	22	Top	4.00
Visual Property Nuisances	Blight	31.3%	94	Bottom	5.00
Abandoned Structures	Blight	21.4%	96	Bottom	5.00
Tax Delinquent Properties	Blight	27.8%	80	Bottom	5.00

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.