231 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does 231 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against numbered streets. Access 32, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 231 Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (90) and tree cover (94). Infrastructure (2) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on 231 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 78 of them. Across every category, 431 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 40 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 36. Reports on 231 Street span 57 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 231 Street carries roughly 46 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 3 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 21 violations on file. City housing records put 946 homes in 727 residential buildings on 231 Street, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on 231 Street have injured 29 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 69 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 46. 231 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on traffic safety. The card also puts cleanliness at 58 and parking at 52 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 31 and transit 8, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 231 Street ranks 94 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 231 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 231 Street is quietness, at 90.
None of the 946 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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231 Street runs through Laurelton, Cambria Heights and Springfield Gardens & Brookville, 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).