31 Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does 31 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against busy avenues. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 31 Avenue in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (82) and tree cover (99). Traffic safety (36) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on 31 Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 251 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 36 among busy avenues. The 311 file on 31 Avenue is led by illegal parking, with 749 reports. Illegal parking accounts for 30% of the 2,503 reports on file here. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 337 reports, then residential noise at 234. The file runs across 102 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 4,132 homes on file, that is about 61 reports per 100 homes.
31 Avenue carries 151 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 142 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 115 violations, then doors at 99. The housing file lists 579 residential buildings on 31 Avenue holding 4,132 homes, with 236 walk-ups and 22 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 7.1 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 67 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 47. That 47 on cleanliness puts 31 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts parking at 53 and quietness at 52 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 79 and transit 45, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 31 Avenue, at 99. About 550 busy avenues make up the band 31 Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 31 Avenue is housing, at 70.
26% of the 4,132 homes recorded on 31 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 1,068 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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31 Avenue runs through Jackson Heights, Astoria & Woodside and East Elmhurst, 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).