Birmingham, Alabama 
Birmingham has a strong-mayor variant mayor-council form of government, lead by a mayor and a nine-member city council. The current system replaced the previous city commission government in 1962 (primarily as a way to remove Commissioner of Public Safety Eugene "Bull" Connor from power). By Alabama law, an issue before a city council must be approved by a two-thirds majority vote (Act No. 452, Ala. Acts 1955, as supplemented by Act No. 294, Ala. Acts 1965.). Executive powers are held entirely by the mayor's office. The current mayor of Birmingham is Bernard Kincaid, who was voted into office in 1999. The Birmingham area is home to some of America's best schools. In 2005, the Jefferson County International Baccalaureate School in Irondale, an eastern suburb of Birmingham, was rated as the #1 high school in America by Newsweek, a national publication. Mountain Brook High School placed 250 on the list.
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| Birmingham | AL | U.S. | |
| Population | 242,820 | 4,447,100 | 281,421,906 |
| Median age | 34.3 | 35.8 | 35.3 |
| Male Median age | 31.8 | 34.4 | 34 |
| Female Median age | 36.2 | 37.2 | 36.5 |
| Households | 98,782 | 1,737,080 | 105,480,101 |
| Household population | 233,968 | 4,332,380 | 273,643,273 |
| Average household size | 2.37 | 2.49 | 2.59 |
| Families | 59,287 | 1,215,968 | 71,787,347 |
| Average family size | 3.09 | 3.01 | 3.14 |
| Housing units | 111,927 | 1,963,711 | 115,904,641 |
| Occupied units | 98,782 | 1,737,080 | 105,480,101 |
| Vacant units | 13,145 | 226,631 | 10,424,540 |
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