161 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does 161 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 45, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 161 Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (86) and tree cover (58). Infrastructure (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 161 Avenue name sewer than any other category, 12 of them. Sewer accounts for 32% of the 37 reports on file here. Reports on 161 Avenue span 14 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 73 homes on file, that is about 51 reports per 100 homes.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on 161 Avenue. 61 residential buildings on 161 Avenue hold the 73 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among smaller avenues, 161 Avenue ranks 71 on cleanliness and 23 on traffic safety. That 23 on traffic safety puts 161 Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, parking sits at 68 and quietness at 35. Against every street in the city, 161 Avenue ranks 48 on food nearby and 37 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 58. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band 161 Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 86.
None of the 73 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash records, NYPD felony complaint records, MTA stop locations, DOHMH food permits, and the street tree census, divided by the homes and businesses on the street, updated weekly. Read the scoring method or the data sources.
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161 Avenue runs through Howard Beach, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Queens, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).