181 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does 181 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against numbered streets. Access 59, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 181 Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (68) and tree cover (92). Infrastructure (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against 181 Street. Reported crashes here have injured 29 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 21 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Blocked driveway is the most-filed, with 40 reports. Across every category, 236 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 17% of them name blocked driveway. Illegal parking follows with 37 reports, and residential noise with 23. In all, 48 distinct 311 categories are represented on 181 Street. Divided by the homes on file, 181 Street carries roughly 47 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 6 Class C violations on 181 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 181 Street is pests, at 11 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 10 more. 377 residential buildings on 181 Street hold the 504 homes on file, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among numbered streets, 181 Street ranks 68 on housing and 21 on traffic safety. That 21 on traffic safety puts 181 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 53 and parking at 49. Against every street in the city, 181 Street ranks 62 on food nearby and 43 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. 181 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 68.
None of the 504 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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181 Street runs through Fresh Meadows, Springfield Gardens & Brookville and 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).