Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Homewood, AL

Homewood is a city in southeastern Jefferson County, Alabama, a Birmingham suburb lying just south of downtown across Red Mountain — in local terms, "over the mountain."

Homewood was incorporated on December 29, 1926, and grew up atop the same iron, coal and limestone deposits that built Birmingham's industry.

The 2020 census counted 26,414 residents in 9,770 households packed into just 8.31 square miles, making Homewood one of Alabama's most densely populated cities, with a median age of 31.3 years.

Its Hollywood neighborhood was developed from 1926 by Clyde Nelson, whose sales force used the slogan "Out of the Smoke Zone, Into the Ozone" to lure Birmingham families over the mountain into Spanish Colonial Revival and Tudor homes designed by architect George P. Turner.

Hollywood briefly incorporated as its own town in 1927 before being annexed into Homewood in 1929, and the Hollywood Historic District — 412 contributing buildings — was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

The Oak Grove community was annexed into Homewood in 1955, completing much of the city's present footprint.

Samford University, a private Christian university founded in 1841 as Howard College, has its campus in Homewood.

Homewood runs its own highly regarded city school system of five schools: Shades Cahaba, Edgewood and Hall-Kent elementary schools, Homewood Middle School and Homewood High School.

Shades Creek, part of the Cahaba River watershed, runs through the city.

Homewood grew from just 6,103 residents in 1930 to more than 26,000 by 2020 as Birmingham's streetcar-era suburbs matured into an independent city.