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"Magic City"

College town

Birmingham is a city in Shelby County. (The community straddles Jefferson and Shelby counties; ePodunk links to the county with the greater share of population.)

It is the county seat.

The community was named after the English manufacturing city.
[NOTE: This is not the only community in Alabama named Birmingham. For links to other places called Birmingham, AL, see the Duplicate Names box at right.]

The latitude of Birmingham is 33.520N. The longitude is -86.802W.

It is in the Central Standard time zone. Elevation is 614 feet.

The estimated population, in 2003, was 236,620.

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Median household income

Local

$26,735

National

$41,994

Source: 2000 census, U.S. Census Bureau

For more census details and comparisons, see our Birmingham demographic reports

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Birmingham is in Jones Valley, at the end of the Appalachians.

Once a major steel city, Birmingham's industrial base has since diversified.

Site of 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, in which four young black girls were killed. Their deaths galvanized the civil rights movement in America. The Rev. Martin Luther King wrote his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" in the same year.

Public transportation: Metro Area Express (See the transit and travel sections below.)

Crime: The number of violent crimes recorded by the FBI in 2003 was 3,347. The number of murders and homicides was 85. The violent crime rate was 13.9 per 1,000 people.

Ranked among the top 10 cities, February 2001 in the ePodunk Home Towns Index

Filming location for:
· 2006 movie, "Borat"

Setting for 1997 Spike Lee film, "4 Little Girls"

Census 2000 highlights: Among major American cities, ranked No. 3 in percentage black population (73.5%)

Well-known residents have included:
· Junious (Buck) Buchanan, football player
· Nat King Cole, musician
· Carl Lewis, Olympic medalist
· Emmylou Harris, singer
· Odetta, singer

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Coffee: National and regional coffee companies with outlets here include Panera Bread, Starbucks

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Local festivals include:

Cakewalk Film Festival - Sept. 28-30, 2007
Alabama Tomato Festival - July 28, 2007
Artwalk - Sept. 7-8, 2007
Brookside Greenway Festival - March 17, 2007
Saint Elias Lebanese Food & Cultural Festival - April 13-14, 2007
Juneteenth Culture Fest Weekend - June 1-3, 2007
Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival - Sept. 28-30, 2007
Art in the Park - Oct. 27, 2007

Dates often change. Check Birmingham web sites and events links in the sections below.

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Performing arts: Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Alabama Ballet

Birmingham attractions: Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Birmingham Zoo, Robert R. Meyer Planetarium

Sports teams: Barons (minor league baseball)

Historic sites and museums: Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham Museum of Art, Red Mountain Museum, Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark, McWane Center, Southern Museum of Flight

Colleges and universities: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham Southern College, Miles College, Samford University, Southeastern Bible College

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Support for libraries: Local government funding for the local library system, in fiscal years 2001-2002, was above the national average. (See library links below.)

Gays & lesbians
National index: 100
Local index: 135

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Quotes:
Birmingham is a new city in an old land.
-- Stars Fell on Alabama
Carl Carmer

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