Healthy Communities Assessment Tool

South Titusville

South Titusville is a neighborhood in the Titusville community of Birmingham. It is divided from North Titusville by the community's main street, 6th Avenue South, and from the Woodland Park neighborhood to the south by Green Springs Avenue. South Titusville is predominantly residential.

Indicator Details

Indicators	Primary Domain	Indicator Value	Rank	Tier	Indicator Weight
Business Retention	Economic Health	-11.3%	62	Middle	1.00
Access to Mainstream Financial Services	Economic Health	37.7%	35	Middle	1.00
Local Business Vitality	Economic Health	54.0%	65	Middle	1.00
Payday Loans	Economic Health	0.7	49	Middle	1.00
Adult Educational Attainment	Educational Opportunities	78.8%	45	Middle	3.00
High School Graduation Rate	Educational Opportunities	80.6%	15	Top	3.00
School Readiness Scores	Educational Opportunities	-%	-	Data N/A	1.00
Preschool Enrollment	Educational Opportunities	0.0%	87	Bottom	3.00
Reading Proficiency	Educational Opportunities	33.8%	1	Top	3.00
Residential Proximity to Traffic	Environmental Hazards	5.0%	79	Bottom	1.00
School Proximity to Traffic	Environmental Hazards	0.0%	1	Top	1.00
Proximity to Brownfield Sites	Environmental Hazards	0.0%	1	Top	1.00
Toxic Releases from Facilities	Environmental Hazards	98.2%	73	Bottom	1.00
Proximity to Superfund Sites	Environmental Hazards	2.8%	58	Middle	1.00
Public Assisted Households	Employment Opportunities	23.6%	17	Top	1.00
Employment Rate	Employment Opportunities	92.2%	15	Top	1.00
Long-Term Unemployment	Employment Opportunities	2.3%	27	Top	1.00
Travel Time to Work	Employment Opportunities	20.3	16	Top	1.00
Age of Housing	Housing	86.3%	58	Middle	1.00
Blood Lead Levels in Children	Housing	-%	-	Data N/A	1.00
Excessive Housing Cost Burden	Housing	56.3%	93	Bottom	1.00
Vacancy Rates	Housing	20.6%	51	Middle	1.00
Violent Crime	Health Systems and Public Safety	52	14	Top	4.00
Chronic School Absence	Health Systems and Public Safety	11.5%	18	Top	1.00
Low Birth Weight	Health Systems and Public Safety	-%	-	Data N/A	1.00
Motor Vehicle Collisions	Health Systems and Public Safety	2.3	23	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	0.4	73	Bottom	4.00
Public Health Nuisances	Health Systems and Public Safety	62.8	42	Middle	4.00
Infant Mortality Rate	Health Systems and Public Safety	18.2	83	Bottom	1.00
Tree Cover	Natural Areas	0.0%	77	Bottom	1.00
Access to Parks and Open Space	Natural Areas	89.2%	56	Middle	1.00
Food Desert	Neighborhood Characteristics	37.5%	6	Top	2.00
Land Use Mix	Neighborhood Characteristics	0.3	83	Bottom	1.00
Walkability	Neighborhood Characteristics	65.5	39	Middle	4.00
Offsite Alcohol Outlets	Neighborhood Characteristics	0.4	45	Middle	1.00
Residential Mobility	Social Cohesion	82.2%	53	Middle	1.00
Voter Participation	Social Cohesion	7.1%	24	Top	1.00
Commute Mode Share	Transportation	12.4%	63	Middle	4.00
Household Transportation Costs	Transportation	22.7%	21	Top	4.00
Pedestrian Connectivity	Transportation	137	32	Top	4.00
Transit Accessibility	Transportation	6.7	27	Top	4.00
Abandoned Structures	Blight	12.0%	57	Middle	5.00
Tax Delinquent Properties	Blight	11.1%	31	Top	5.00
Visual Property Nuisances	Blight	14.7%	52	Middle	5.00

Demographic and Contextual Indicators

	Neighborhood	City Wide
Income Inequality	0.4	0.49
Concentrated Poverty	37.1%	30.9%
Life Expectancy	71.6	78.8
Population	2,788	210,616
Racial and Ethnic Diversity	0.1	0.44
Park Quality	45.6

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.