172 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does 172 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against numbered streets. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 172 Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (52) and tree cover (99). Street crime (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 172 Street name traffic than any other category, 387 of them. Across every category, 706 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 55% of them name traffic. After that the file runs to illegal parking (230 reports) and blocked driveway (135). In all, 69 distinct 311 categories are represented on 172 Street. Divided by the homes on file, 172 Street carries roughly 53 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 27 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 172 Street, 54 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 29 more, and paint and lead for 29. 796 residential buildings on 172 Street hold the 1,337 homes on file, 44 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 52 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, 172 Street ranks 49 on parking and 37 on traffic safety. A 37 on traffic safety places 172 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Cleanliness ranks 44 on the same scale, with quietness at 37. Food nearby ranks 51 and transit 26, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 172 Street ranks 99 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Housing is where 172 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 52.
About 2% of the 1,337 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 23 homes in all.
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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172 Street runs through Auburndale, Pomonok and South Jamaica, 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).