Citywide, 31% of residents live in poverty, a higher poverty rate than all but a dozen other large U.S. cities.

10.3 inches of snow fell on March 13, 1993, during the 1993 Storm of the Century, which established the highest daily snowfall, one-storm, and winter season total on record.

Its rapid growth from 1881 through 1920 earned it the nicknames "The Magic City" and "The Pittsburgh of the South".

Birmingham is the seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous and fifth largest county.