Penfield Park
Penfield Park is a small neighborhood in Birmingham's Airport Hills community, north of Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport between Airport Road, Lawson Road, Marshall Avenue and Tarrant-Huffman Road. The neighborhood is made up mainly of houses in the Penfield Heights subdivision. Rosalyn Heights was annexed into Birmingham in 1964 and the rest of the neighborhood was annexed along with the larger Airport Hills area in 1977. It abuts the Zion City and Brownsville Heights neighborhoods to the south, Brummitt Heights and Pine Knoll Vista to the west, Maple Grove to the north, and Roebuck to the east.
Indicator Details
Indicators | Primary Domain | Indicator Value | Rank | Tier | Indicator Weight |
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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 |
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 |
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 | 0.0% | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
Toxic Releases from Facilities | Environmental Hazards | 0.0% | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
Offsite Alcohol Outlets | Neighborhood Characteristics | 0 | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
Voter Participation | Social Cohesion | 20.2% | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
Chronic School Absence | Health Systems and Public Safety | 0.8% | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
Payday Loans | Economic Health | 0 | 1 | Top | 1.00 |
Reading Proficiency | Educational Opportunities | 22.4% | 5 | Top | 3.00 |
Local Business Vitality | Economic Health | 88.9% | 5 | Top | 1.00 |
Motor Vehicle Collisions | Health Systems and Public Safety | 0.4 | 6 | Top | 4.00 |
Abandoned Structures | Blight | 3.8% | 7 | Top | 5.00 |
Age of Housing | Housing | 64.6% | 12 | Top | 1.00 |
Business Retention | Economic Health | 12.5% | 13 | Top | 1.00 |
Tree Cover | Natural Areas | 27.4% | 21 | Top | 1.00 |
Excessive Housing Cost Burden | Housing | 33.7% | 22 | Top | 1.00 |
High School Graduation Rate | Educational Opportunities | 80.0% | 25 | Top | 3.00 |
Long-Term Unemployment | Employment Opportunities | 2.6% | 29 | Top | 1.00 |
Infant Mortality Rate | Health Systems and Public Safety | 11.6 | 30 | Top | 1.00 |
Public Assisted Households | Employment Opportunities | 32.2% | 30 | Top | 1.00 |
Public Health Nuisances | Health Systems and Public Safety | 49.8 | 32 | Top | 4.00 |
Residential Mobility | Social Cohesion | 86.0% | 36 | Middle | 1.00 |
Employment Rate | Employment Opportunities | 86.6% | 36 | Middle | 1.00 |
Visual Property Nuisances | Blight | 9.9% | 37 | Middle | 5.00 |
Preschool Enrollment | Educational Opportunities | 23.6% | 40 | Middle | 3.00 |
Access to Mainstream Financial Services | Economic Health | 34.3% | 47 | Middle | 1.00 |
Adult Educational Attainment | Educational Opportunities | 77.9% | 48 | Middle | 3.00 |
Food Desert | Neighborhood Characteristics | 100.0% | 56 | Middle | 2.00 |
Violent Crime | Health Systems and Public Safety | 99.6 | 57 | Middle | 4.00 |
Vacancy Rates | Housing | 22.2% | 59 | Middle | 1.00 |
Travel Time to Work | Employment Opportunities | 25.7 | 60 | Middle | 1.00 |
Commute Mode Share | Transportation | 12.1% | 67 | Bottom | 4.00 |
Tax Delinquent Properties | Blight | 23.9% | 69 | Bottom | 5.00 |
Land Use Mix | Neighborhood Characteristics | 0.4 | 76 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Access to Parks and Open Space | Natural Areas | 58.3% | 82 | Bottom | 1.00 |
Transit Accessibility | Transportation | 0.7 | 89 | Bottom | 4.00 |
Walkability | Neighborhood Characteristics | 25 | 91 | Bottom | 4.00 |
Pedestrian Connectivity | Transportation | 20 | 91 | Bottom | 4.00 |
Household Transportation Costs | Transportation | 28.5% | 95 | Bottom | 4.00 |
Demographic and Contextual Indicators
Neighborhood | City Wide | |
---|---|---|
Income Inequality | 0.4 | 0.49 |
Concentrated Poverty | 25.2% | 30.9% |
Life Expectancy | 73.4 | 78.8 |
Population | 823 | 210,616 |
Racial and Ethnic Diversity | 0.4 | 0.44 |
Park Quality | 31.7 |