Highland Park, 323 acres in ZIP 35205, has its own form-based zoning overlay and four city parks. Zoned for Woodlawn High; ZIP value $227,114 in Sept. 2026.

Last checked Oct. 17, 2026. Sources: the City of Birmingham’s 23 communities and 99 neighborhoods list and neighborhood boundary files, its comprehensive plan (PDF) and parks list; Birmingham City Schools’ Find My Zone; the Alabama State Department of Education’s state report card for 2025; Zillow Research; MAX Transit’s schedule data; and OpenStreetMap.

Highland Park is a neighborhood of about 323 acres on the lower slope of Red Mountain, southeast of downtown. It is one of three neighborhoods in the city’s Red Mountain community, with Forest Park and Redmont Park. The city’s comprehensive plan singles it out twice: Highland Park has its own form-based zoning overlay, which sets rules for how buildings meet the street on top of the base zoning, and it has “historic apartment buildings” among its houses. Four small city parks sit inside it.

What this means for you

  • Zoned high school: Woodlawn High, 5620 1st Ave. N. (2025 state report card: 61, a D).
  • Home value: $227,114 in ZIP 35205 in September 2026, according to the Zillow Home Value Index.
  • Nearest interstate exit: I-65 exit 259B (4th Avenue South), about 3.6 miles by road.

Part of our Birmingham neighborhoods guide.

Where it is

On the city’s boundary map, Highland Park has the Southside neighborhood to the north and west, Forest Park to the northeast and Redmont Park up the mountain to the south and east. The whole neighborhood is in ZIP code 35205. The overlay district’s rules are in the city’s zoning code; the Red Mountain community’s proposed rezoning map is on the city’s community rezoning plans page.

Schools

We checked 16 points spread across the neighborhood in the district’s Find My Zone tool, and every one returned the same three schools. Scores are each school’s overall score on the 2025 state report card (the 2024-25 school year).

Level School Address 2025 score (grade)
Elementary Avondale Elementary 4000 8th Court S. 83 (B)
Middle Putnam Middle 1757 Montclair Road 67 (D)
High Woodlawn High 5620 1st Ave. N. 61 (D)

Birmingham City Schools as a whole scored 77 (C). The district also runs application-based specialty schools. Check one address in Find My Zone. More in our schools guide.

Home values

The typical home value in ZIP code 35205 was $227,114 in September 2026, down 1.8% from $231,366 in September 2025, according to the Zillow Home Value Index. The index is a modeled typical value for the middle third of homes, not a sale price. 35205 also covers much of Five Points South, Glen Iris and Redmont Park, so it is not a Highland Park figure alone. The citywide figure was $134,165, down 2.4%. More in our home prices and property taxes guides.

Parks and trails

Four parks on the city’s list are inside the neighborhood, with the acreage the city gives:

  • Rushton Park, 4.37 acres.
  • Rhodes Park, 3.2 acres.
  • Caldwell Park, 2.69 acres.
  • Hanover Park, 0.35 acre.

Hugo Black Park (0.87 acre) is just outside, and Avondale Park (36.5 acres) is a little over a mile northeast in Forest Park. More in our parks and trails guide.

Getting around

  • Interstates: I-65 exit 259B (4th Avenue South), about 3.6 miles by road from the middle of the neighborhood. The Red Mountain Expressway (U.S. 31 and U.S. 280), which is not an interstate, has a ramp signed for Highland Avenue and Arlington Avenue just west of the neighborhood, according to OpenStreetMap.
  • City Hall: about 2.4 miles by road.
  • Airport: about 5.9 miles by road to Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport. Distances are measured on the OpenStreetMap road network with the OSRM routing engine; they are distances, not drive times.
  • Buses: no MAX Transit stop falls inside the neighborhood’s boundary in the schedule data valid through Oct. 28. Route 25 Centerpoint stops in Forest Park next door, and six routes stop in the Southside community to the west.

More in our getting around guide.

Groceries and everyday stores

From OpenStreetMap, all just outside the neighborhood on Clairmont Avenue South:

  • Piggly Wiggly, 3314 Clairmont Ave. S.
  • CVS Pharmacy, 3303 Clairmont Ave. S.
  • Walgreens, 3020 Clairmont Ave. S.

Neighborhood association

Highland Park elects its own neighborhood officers under the city’s Citizen Participation Program. The city’s Community Resource Services Division lists Whitney Mullen as the representative for the Redmont community, 205-254-2523, on its staff page.

How we drew this area

The area is the Highland Park neighborhood polygon in the city’s open data boundary file, checked Oct. 17, 2026. School zones are from 16 sample points in the district’s Find My Zone tool; ZIP codes are from Census ZIP code areas. Place and store locations are © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Frequently asked questions

What schools is Highland Park in Birmingham zoned for?

Avondale Elementary, Putnam Middle and Woodlawn High. They scored 83, 67 and 61 on the 2025 state report card.

What ZIP code is Highland Park in?

  1. The Zillow Home Value Index for 35205 was $227,114 in September 2026, down 1.8% in a year.

What parks are in Highland Park?

Four city parks: Rushton Park (4.37 acres), Rhodes Park (3.2 acres), Caldwell Park (2.69 acres) and Hanover Park (0.35 acre), according to the city’s parks list.

Is Highland Park a good place to live?

Here are the facts. Highland Park is a 323-acre neighborhood in the Red Mountain community with its own form-based zoning overlay and four city parks, zoned for Woodlawn High (61 on the 2025 state report card); the typical home value in ZIP 35205 was $227,114 in September 2026, according to Zillow.