Thomas
Thomas is a neighborhood in Birmingham's Pratt community. It is located north of I-59/20, west of Acipco-Finley and southeast of North Pratt. A former municipality, Thomas was began as a plantation but was purchased by David Thomas for the construction of the Thomas Furnaces in the late 1880s. The first worker homes built in Thomas by the Pioneer Corporation were modeled after those in factory towns in Pennsylvania. After the operation was purchased by Republic Steel in 1899 more typical house plans were adopted, including shotgun, square-top and bungalow-style houses.
Indicator Details
| Indicators |
Primary Domain |
Indicator Value | Rank | Tier | Indicator Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Retention | Economic Health | -7.9% | 46 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Access to Mainstream Financial Services | Economic Health | 24.7% | 75 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Local Business Vitality | Economic Health | 31.9% | 96 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Payday Loans | Economic Health | 3.1 | 90 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Adult Educational Attainment | Educational Opportunities | 77.3% | 55 | Middle | 3.00 |
| High School Graduation Rate | Educational Opportunities | 78.0% | 50 | Middle | 3.00 |
| School Readiness Scores | Educational Opportunities | -% | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
| Preschool Enrollment | Educational Opportunities | 0.2% | 86 | Bottom | 3.00 |
| Reading Proficiency | Educational Opportunities | 18.5% | 14 | Top | 3.00 |
| Residential Proximity to Traffic | Environmental Hazards | 2.8% | 72 | Bottom | 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 | 10.9% | 68 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Toxic Releases from Facilities | Environmental Hazards | 30.9% | 21 | Top | 1.00 |
| Public Assisted Households | Employment Opportunities | 28.1% | 23 | Top | 1.00 |
| Employment Rate | Employment Opportunities | 80.4% | 65 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Long-Term Unemployment | Employment Opportunities | 4.7% | 71 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Travel Time to Work | Employment Opportunities | 26.2 | 68 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Age of Housing | Housing | 79.1% | 35 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Blood Lead Levels in Children | Housing | -% | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
| Excessive Housing Cost Burden | Housing | 36.8% | 36 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Vacancy Rates | Housing | 23.8% | 67 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Violent Crime | Health Systems and Public Safety | 185.2 | 86 | Bottom | 4.00 |
| Chronic School Absence | Health Systems and Public Safety | 23.9% | 45 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Low Birth Weight | Health Systems and Public Safety | -% | - | Data N/A | 1.00 |
| Motor Vehicle Collisions | Health Systems and Public Safety | 47.5 | 97 | Bottom | 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 | 0.3 | 67 | Bottom | 4.00 |
| Public Health Nuisances | Health Systems and Public Safety | 73.9 | 56 | Middle | 4.00 |
| Infant Mortality Rate | Health Systems and Public Safety | 15.8 | 67 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Tree Cover | Natural Areas | 4.8% | 50 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Access to Parks and Open Space | Natural Areas | 99.8% | 34 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Food Desert | Neighborhood Characteristics | 100.0% | 56 | Middle | 2.00 |
| Walkability | Neighborhood Characteristics | 63 | 41 | Middle | 4.00 |
| Land Use Mix | Neighborhood Characteristics | 0.7 | 9 | Top | 1.00 |
| Offsite Alcohol Outlets | Neighborhood Characteristics | 2.1 | 88 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Residential Mobility | Social Cohesion | 78.7% | 70 | Bottom | 1.00 |
| Voter Participation | Social Cohesion | 5.7% | 44 | Middle | 1.00 |
| Commute Mode Share | Transportation | 23.7% | 25 | Top | 4.00 |
| Household Transportation Costs | Transportation | 25.6% | 58 | Middle | 4.00 |
| Pedestrian Connectivity | Transportation | 40 | 83 | Bottom | 4.00 |
| Transit Accessibility | Transportation | 6.9 | 26 | Top | 4.00 |
| Abandoned Structures | Blight | 20.5% | 91 | Bottom | 5.00 |
| Tax Delinquent Properties | Blight | 15.0% | 37 | Middle | 5.00 |
| Visual Property Nuisances | Blight | 15.2% | 54 | Middle | 5.00 |
Demographic and Contextual Indicators
| Neighborhood | City Wide | |
|---|---|---|
| Income Inequality | 0.4 | 0.49 |
| Concentrated Poverty | 24.3% | 30.9% |
| Life Expectancy | 70.1 | 78.8 |
| Population | 960 | 210,616 |
| Racial and Ethnic Diversity | 0.2 | 0.44 |
| Park Quality | 63.5 |