Quality of life in Birmingham, AL
Birmingham, Alabama, is among the top cities with a free business environment. Our data reflects that this city has a good ranking in healthcare and environmental quality.
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Birmingham, Alabama, is among the top cities with a free business environment. Our data reflects that this city has a good ranking in healthcare and environmental quality.
Large apartment | $1300.00 |
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Medium apartment | $1100.00 |
Rent index [score] | 0.64 |
Small apartment | $820.00 |
5km taxi ride | $7.70 |
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A Cappuccino | $5.00 |
A beer | $2.10 |
A kilogram of Apples | $3.80 |
Bread | $0.70 |
Inflation [score] | 0.51 |
Lunch | $16.00 |
Monthly fitness club membership | $42.00 |
Monthly public transport | $38.00 |
Movie ticket | $11.00 |
Price of a meal at a restaurant | $71.34 |
Average monthly increase in number of startups | 3 |
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Average monthly increase in number of startups [score] | 0.32 |
Coworking spaces [score] | 0.53 |
Coworking spaces on WorkFrom.co | 14 |
Meetups [score] | 0.19 |
Meetups groups | 36 |
Meetups members | 10196 |
Number of investors | 17 |
Number of startup events in the last 12 months | 397 |
Number of upcoming meetup events | 15 |
Startup climate scene [score] | 0.41 |
Startup events | 49 |
Startup events [score] | 0.56 |
Startups [score] | 0.55 |
Total number of startups | 96 |
Venture capital [score] | 0.10 |
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Airport hub | 20 |
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Airport hub [score] | 0.17 |
Intercity train connectivity [score] | 0.12 |
Human city page | http://cities.human.co/details/United_States/Birmingham |
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Traffic handling [score] | 0.81 |
Business freedom | 84.70 |
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Business freedom [score] | 0.86 |
Freedom from corruption | 74.00 |
Freedom from corruption [score] | 0.79 |
Lack of labor restrictions | 91.40 |
Lack of labor restrictions [score] | 1.00 |
Time to open a business | 5.60 |
Time to open a business [score] | 0.95 |
Crime rate [score] | 0.26 |
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Gun-related deaths per 100,000 residents per year | 18 |
Guns per 100 residents | 205 |
Lack of gun related deaths [score] | 0.52 |
Lack of guns [score] | 0.10 |
Lack of guns and gun-related deaths [score] | 0.31 |
Healthcare expenditure [score] | 0.99 |
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Healthcare quality [score] | 0.87 |
Life expectancy (years) | 79.28 |
Life expectancy [score] | 0.76 |
Country mean scores in PISA math test | 478.04 |
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Country mean scores in PISA reading test | 497.58 |
Country mean scores in PISA science test | 497.41 |
PISA math ranking (high school) | 30 |
PISA ranking | 24 |
PISA ranking (high school) [score] | 0.72 |
PISA reading (high school) | 16 |
PISA science (high school) | 19 |
Percent of happy students | 0.77 |
Percent of low performers in PISA math test | 0.26 |
Percent of low performers in PISA reading test | 0.17 |
Percent of low performers in PISA science test | 0.18 |
Percent of top performers in PISA math test | 0.09 |
Percent of top performers in PISA reading test | 0.08 |
Percent of top performers in PISA science test | 0.07 |
Air quality [score] | 0.75 |
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Cleanliness [score] | 0.58 |
Drinking water quality [score] | 0.82 |
Urban greenery [score] | 0.67 |
Currency exchange rate per US dollar for urban area | 1.00 |
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Currency for urban area | USD |
GDP growth rate | 0.02 |
GDP growth rate [score] | 0.43 |
GDP per capita | $54596.65 |
GDP per capita [score] | 0.87 |
Effective company profit tax rate on payouts as dividends [score] | 0.54 |
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Income tax level [score] | 0.30 |
Profit tax (% of profit) | 0.44 |
Time overhead to file company taxes | 175 |
VAT (Sales Tax) | 0.10 |
Download speed (Mbps) | 56.76 |
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Internet access (download) [score] | 0.67 |
Internet access (upload) [score] | 0.36 |
Upload speed (Mbps) | 7.91 |
Art galleries | 97 |
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Art galleries [score] | 0.45 |
Cinemas | 89 |
Cinemas [score] | 0.50 |
Comedy clubs | 32 |
Comedy clubs [score] | 0.64 |
Concert venues | 106 |
Concerts [score] | 0.63 |
Historical sites | 51 |
Historical sites [score] | 0.51 |
Museums | 33 |
Museums [score] | 0.56 |
Performing art venues | 105 |
Performing arts [score] | 0.61 |
Sport venues | 45 |
Sports [score] | 0.56 |
Zoos | 11 |
Zoos [score] | 0.78 |
LGBT Equality Index | 67.19 |
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LGBT Equality Index [score] | 0.68 |
LGBT adoption rights | ✖ Single only |
LGBT age of consent | ✔ Equal |
LGBT blood donation regulations | ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral) |
LGBT conversion therapy regulations | Ambiguous |
LGBT discrimination legality | ✖ No protections |
LGBT employment discrimination legality | ✖ No protections |
LGBT gender changing rights | ✔ Legal, surgery not required |
LGBT homosexuality rights | ✔ Legal |
LGBT housing discrimination legality | ✖ No protections |
LGBT marriage rights | ✔ Legal |
Tolerance towards minorities [score] | 0.30 |
Elevation (hills or mountains) [score] | 0.15 |
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Median peak in meters | 227.00 |
Presence of hills in city | 1.00 |
Urban area elevation (meters) | 186.00 |
Water access [score] | 0.10 |
Costs of living in Birmingham are in the 171st place of all 248 Teleport cities. Sign up for free to get access to our cost of living index and use our international cost of living calculator to do cost comparison by city.
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The overall crime rate puts Birmingham, AL in position 237 of 266 Teleport Cities in a ranking for the safest cities.
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Birmingham ( BUR-ming-ham) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alabama and the seat of Jefferson County. The city's population was 212,237 in the 2010 United States Census. As of 2010, the Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of about 1,128,047, approximately one-quarter of Alabama's population.
Birmingham was founded in 1871, during the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, through the merger of three pre-existing farm towns, most notably Elyton. The new city was named for Birmingham, England, the UK's second largest city and at the time a major industrial city. The Alabama city annexed smaller neighbors and developed as an industrial center, based on mining, the new iron and steel industry, and rail transport. Most of the original settlers who founded Birmingham were of English ancestry. The city was developed as a place where cheap, non-unionized immigrant labor (primarily Irish and Italian), along with African-American labor from rural Alabama, could be employed in the city's steel mills and blast furnaces, giving it a competitive advantage over unionized industrial cities in the Midwest and Northeast.
From its founding through the end of the 1960s, Birmingham was a primary industrial center of the southern United States. Its growth from 1881 through 1920 earned it nicknames such as "The Magic City" and "The Pittsburgh of the South". Its major industries were iron and steel production. Major components of the railroad industry, rails and railroad cars, were manufactured in Birmingham: since the 1860s, the two primary hubs of railroading in the "Deep South" have been Birmingham and Atlanta. The economy diversified in the latter half of the 20th century. Banking, telecommunications, transportation, electrical power transmission, medical care, college education, and insurance have become major economic activities. Birmingham ranks as one of the largest banking centers in the United States. Also, it is among the most important business centers in the Southeast.
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