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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Household Transportation Costs | Transportation | 28.5% | 95 | Bottom | 4.00 |
| Pedestrian Connectivity | Transportation | 20 | 91 | Bottom | 4.00 |
| Walkability | Neighborhood Characteristics | 25 | 91 | Bottom | 4.00 |
| Transit Accessibility | Transportation | 0.7 | 89 | Bottom | 4.00 |
| Access to Parks and Open Space | Natural Areas | 58.3% | 82 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Land Use Mix | Neighborhood Characteristics | 0.4 | 76 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Tax Delinquent Properties | Blight | 23.9% | 69 | Bottom | 5.00 |
| Commute Mode Share | Transportation | 12.1% | 67 | Bottom | 4.00 |
| Travel Time to Work | Employment Opportunities | 25.7 | 60 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Vacancy Rates | Housing | 22.2% | 59 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Violent Crime | Health Systems and Public Safety | 99.6 | 57 | Middle | 4.00 |
| Food Desert | Neighborhood Characteristics | 100.0% | 56 | Middle | 2.00 |
| Adult Educational Attainment | Educational Opportunities | 77.9% | 48 | Middle | 3.00 |
| Access to Mainstream Financial Services | Economic Health | 34.3% | 47 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Preschool Enrollment | Educational Opportunities | 23.6% | 40 | Middle | 3.00 |
| Visual Property Nuisances | Blight | 9.9% | 37 | Middle | 5.00 |
| Employment Rate | Employment Opportunities | 86.6% | 36 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Residential Mobility | Social Cohesion | 86.0% | 36 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Public Health Nuisances | Health Systems and Public Safety | 49.8 | 32 | Top | 4.00 |
| Public Assisted Households | Employment Opportunities | 32.2% | 30 | Top | 1.00 |
| Infant Mortality Rate | Health Systems and Public Safety | 11.6 | 30 | Top | 1.00 |
| Long-Term Unemployment | Employment Opportunities | 2.6% | 29 | Top | 1.00 |
| High School Graduation Rate | Educational Opportunities | 80.0% | 25 | Top | 3.00 |
| Excessive Housing Cost Burden | Housing | 33.7% | 22 | Top | 1.00 |
| Tree Cover | Natural Areas | 27.4% | 21 | Top | 1.00 |
| Business Retention | Economic Health | 12.5% | 13 | Top | 1.00 |
| Age of Housing | Housing | 64.6% | 12 | Top | 1.00 |
| Abandoned Structures | Blight | 3.8% | 7 | Top | 5.00 |
| Motor Vehicle Collisions | Health Systems and Public Safety | 0.4 | 6 | Top | 4.00 |
| Local Business Vitality | Economic Health | 88.9% | 5 | Top | 1.00 |
| Reading Proficiency | Educational Opportunities | 22.4% | 5 | Top | 3.00 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 0.4 | 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 |