Find Your Neighborhood

Birmingham is organized into 99 neighborhood associations grouped under 23 communities. The framework was set up in 1974 under the Citizen Participation Plan, and the federal CDBG program ties funding to it under 24 CFR 91.105. When you participate in the platform, you participate as a resident of one specific NA — that’s what gives you a vote on the things the NA decides.

You don’t need to know which NA you live in before you visit the platform. The directory at /communities lets you browse every community and every NA, and the claim flow figures out which NA matches your address once you give it.

Visit Communities from the public landing page (the "Find my neighborhood" button) or directly at /communities. You’ll see all 23 communities, each with a list of the NAs grouped under it. The search field at the top filters both community and neighborhood names — type a partial name like "crestline" or "east" to narrow the list.

Clicking an NA opens its detail page, which shows the parent community and a primary "I live here — claim my residency" button. That button is where the claim-residency flow starts.

The claim flow asks for your full street address and your date of birth. The platform geocodes your address against Birmingham Open Data Portal boundaries, picks the NA it falls within, and submits a claim to that NA’s admin for approval.

Approval typically takes a few days. Once it lands, you can vote in your association’s decisions, comment on threads, and confirm attendance for events. You’ll get an email when your status changes.