Center Point is a city and a former census-designated place (CDP) in northeastern Jefferson County, Alabama, United States.

The city of Center Point originally started as a small farm community, founded by the Reed family of North Carolina, which was around the same time other families were coming in to settle the towns of Trussville, Springville, Clay, and Pinson.

By 1924, the Rock School was built, which now stands as the Center Point City Hall, as well as several business such as a post office and blacksmith shop.

However, by the 1960s, Center Point began to rapidly develop, with over 80% of all homes in city limits built within a ten year span from 1960-1970.

By 1967, Center Point was recognized as the largest census-designated place (CDP) in the United States with over 67,000 people.

By the late 1990s however, urban blight, financial decay, and violence had already plagued Birmingham's eastern neighborhoods such as Woodlawn and East Lake, which soon began to spill into still unincorporated Center Point.

The city paid the East Lake homeowners relocation money as reimbursement for the house and property.

The decay brought about a severe socioeconomic shift, which saw the complete demographic flip of the area addition to financial and retail losses to newly growing suburbs around Birmingham.

Eventually, this decay led to the area's school quality decline and began to display the rarely-observed “suburban blight”.