Oakwood Place
Oakwood Place is a neighborhood in Birmingham's West End community. The neighborhood is south of Valley Creek, north of the Southern Railway and Nabors Branch, west of Arlington-West End and east of Germania Park. It includes the Berney Points community and the former site of Lee Elementary School and West End High School.
Indicator Details
| Indicators |
Primary Domain |
Indicator Value | Rank | Tier | Indicator Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Retention | Economic Health | 2.0% | 20 | Top | 1.00 |
| Access to Mainstream Financial Services | Economic Health | 33.8% | 48 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Local Business Vitality | Economic Health | 56.0% | 56 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Payday Loans | Economic Health | 1.9 | 80 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Adult Educational Attainment | Educational Opportunities | 79.3% | 42 | Middle | 3.00 |
| High School Graduation Rate | Educational Opportunities | 80.2% | 24 | Top | 3.00 |
| School Readiness Scores | Educational Opportunities | -% | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
| Preschool Enrollment | Educational Opportunities | 20.2% | 49 | Middle | 3.00 |
| Reading Proficiency | Educational Opportunities | 6.8% | 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 | 3.9% | 61 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Toxic Releases from Facilities | Environmental Hazards | 81.5% | 54 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Public Assisted Households | Employment Opportunities | 47.5% | 58 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Employment Rate | Employment Opportunities | 83.5% | 58 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Long-Term Unemployment | Employment Opportunities | 3.5% | 44 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Travel Time to Work | Employment Opportunities | 20.9 | 23 | Top | 1.00 |
| Age of Housing | Housing | 88.1% | 67 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Blood Lead Levels in Children | Housing | -% | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
| Excessive Housing Cost Burden | Housing | 47.4% | 80 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Vacancy Rates | Housing | 29.0% | 86 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Public Health Nuisances | Health Systems and Public Safety | 114.5 | 87 | Bottom | 4.00 |
| Infant Mortality Rate | Health Systems and Public Safety | 16.2 | 72 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Violent Crime | Health Systems and Public Safety | 96 | 56 | Middle | 4.00 |
| Chronic School Absence | Health Systems and Public Safety | 33.0% | 87 | Bottom | 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 | 44 | Middle | 4.00 |
| Tree Cover | Natural Areas | 0.1% | 75 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Access to Parks and Open Space | Natural Areas | 87.6% | 63 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Walkability | Neighborhood Characteristics | 71.3 | 32 | Top | 4.00 |
| Land Use Mix | Neighborhood Characteristics | 0.7 | 9 | Top | 1.00 |
| Offsite Alcohol Outlets | Neighborhood Characteristics | 1.5 | 79 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Food Desert | Neighborhood Characteristics | 100.0% | 56 | Middle | 2.00 |
| Residential Mobility | Social Cohesion | 81.6% | 61 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Voter Participation | Social Cohesion | 4.6% | 75 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Transit Accessibility | Transportation | 5.5 | 40 | Middle | 4.00 |
| Commute Mode Share | Transportation | 25.1% | 24 | Top | 4.00 |
| Household Transportation Costs | Transportation | 22.8% | 23 | Top | 4.00 |
| Pedestrian Connectivity | Transportation | 185 | 5 | Top | 4.00 |
| Abandoned Structures | Blight | 16.4% | 77 | Bottom | 5.00 |
| Tax Delinquent Properties | Blight | 21.1% | 60 | Middle | 5.00 |
| Visual Property Nuisances | Blight | 27.8% | 86 | Bottom | 5.00 |
Demographic and Contextual Indicators
| Neighborhood | City Wide | |
|---|---|---|
| Income Inequality | 0.5 | 0.49 |
| Concentrated Poverty | 33.9% | 30.9% |
| Life Expectancy | 69.5 | 78.8 |
| Population | 2,647 | 210,616 |
| Racial and Ethnic Diversity | 0.1 | 0.44 |
| Park Quality | 80.8 |