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Ensley Junction

Bessemer · No-go after dark

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35out of 100

No-go after dark

Overall safety score

“Skip unless you have specific business or personal ties in the area. Ensley Junction and the surrounding corridor face significant challenges with elevated rates of violent and property crime, alongside high structural vacancy. Visitors traveling through should remain alert, keep vehicle doors locked, and avoid walking through unfamiliar residential streets after dark.”
— Gogo, on Ensley Junction

Walk score

38/100

Bike score

32/100

Recent local news: Recent regional policing initiatives continue to target gun violence and property offenses across the greater western Jefferson County urban corridor.

About the area

Industrial RootsCar-DependentSprawlingQuiet

Ensley Junction is a historically industrial community situated in the western Birmingham-Bessemer corridor of Jefferson County, Alabama. The area is defined by older single-family homes, industrial rail lines, light commercial strips, and quiet residential blocks shaped by decades of industrial decline.

Scores are safety-driven: recent crime levels and local news, plus Census data on income and poverty, housing, education and household make-up, and access to vehicles, internet and health coverage. Walk and bike scores are shown separately and do not affect the safety score. A guide, not a guarantee. Neighborhood outlines come from official city and US Census boundary data.

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