Looking for apartments in Birmingham? You’ll love the rich history the Birmingham has to offer. Once known as the “Pittsburgh of the South” for its iron and steel production, Birmingham is now a mix of manufacturing and service industries, including medical and engineering. At the heart of Birmingham is a six-block area known as the Civil Rights District. It commemorates Birmingham’s major role in that movement and includes the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. The historic Fourth Avenue business district originated in the early twentieth century in answer to segregation. Black business owners started their own establishments there, some of which are still in operation. Birmingham has a large college population and a focus on college sports teams. The University of Alabama at Birmingham fields teams in football, women’s volleyball, men’s and women’s cross-country, basketball, indoor and outdoor track, soccer, golf, and tennis. With an abundance of college students, Birmingham has an abundance of apartments for rent. Birmingham has four seasons, with an average winter low temperature of 32 and a summer high of 90. Its annual precipitation, at 64.2 inches, is well above the national average of 38.7. An efficiency apartment in downtown Birmingham rents for $470-550. A one-bedroom apartment near the Cahaba River, in a building featuring a cyber café, movie theater, tennis court, pool and community car wash, rents for $800. A two-bedroom Birmingham rental apartment on the UAB campus ranges from $655-$1170.