A town of 12,028, settled in 1887. A typical home worth about $255K.
The 3 things Leeds does most differently from other towns.
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Ordered by what stands out in Leeds. Another town gets a different order.
The typical Leeds home is worth about $255,000, up 3.3% in a year, 5% above the Alabama typical home.
Leeds beats the Alabama average on 12 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 0.
| What stands out | Leeds | AL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 11.8% | 15.4% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 16.4% | 19.2% |
The public schools Leeds’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 56% of Alabama’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
| School | Grades | Students | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leeds Elementary School | 2–5 | 678 | B+ |
| Leeds Primary School | PK–1 | 517 | Not graded |
| Leeds Middle School | 6–8 | 452 | B− |
| Leeds High School | 9–12 | 624 | C |
| The Grove School Private | 1–12 | 39 |
Leeds reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 80% report less.
Leeds has mild winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. A typical July afternoon reaches 91°, a January night drops to 32°, and snow is almost unheard of.
Most working residents leave Leeds for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Birmingham (29%), Hoover (8%) and Homewood (4%). Half commute less than 14 miles.
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 58% of U.S. communities.
2.4 miles of trails across 2 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Leeds Sports Complex | 0.6 mi | 25 |
| 2. Leeds Memorial Park | 0.3 mi | 13 |
10 postcards, papers and photographs from public archives, and 3 places on the National Register.
10 notable people were born in Leeds.
City in Alabama, United States
Leeds is a tricounty municipality in Jefferson, St. Clair, and Shelby counties in the U.S. state of Alabama; it is an eastern suburb of Birmingham. As of the 2020 census, its population was 12,324. Leeds was founded in 1877, during the final years of the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era. It housed the workers and their families of Lehigh, a Portland cement manufacturing plant. Leeds is nicknamed "The City of Valor" because of three Congressional Medal of Honor recipients from World War II and the Korean War who called Leeds home: Alford McLaughlin, William Lawley and Henry "Red" Erwin.
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4 towns share a border with Leeds.