Birmingham Neighborhoods

List of areas to explore

1  Southside

As you head south from downtown, the first significant change begins at about Sixth Avenue South, which is where...

2  Hoover

Another of Birmingham's outlying "bedroom" communities is Hoover. Though largely residential, Hoover is also notable...

3  Forest Park

Just east of Highland Park Golf Course, the neighborhood of Forest Park stretches along Clairmont Avenue and hosts...

4  Homewood

Starting at the top of Red Mountain and going down its southern slope is the community of Homewood. This was Birmingham's...

5  Downtown

Much of the early 20th-century architecture remains from Birmingham's heyday. One of the most impressive is the...

6  Irondale

7  Outside the City

8  East Lake

9  Mountain Brook

10  Westend

11  Fairfield

12  South Burbs

13  Vestavia

14  Bessemer

The home of the great Bessemer blast furnaces, Bessemer fell on hard times when the influence of the steel industry...

15  Lake Purdy

16  North Burbs

17  Centerpoint

18  Red Mountain

19  Pelham

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