31 Road, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does 31 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 31 Road in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (83) and tree cover (66). Parking (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 31 Road name illegal parking than any other category, 150 of them, and parking ranks 15 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on 31 Road holds 305 reports, and illegal parking is 49% of it. After that the file runs to paint and plaster (100 reports) and door and window (37). The file runs across 49 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 608 homes on file, that is about 50 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 11 Class C violations on 31 Road, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 31 Road is paint and lead, at 48 violations. Behind it the file holds safety devices (48 violations) and doors (47). City housing records put 608 homes in 79 residential buildings on 31 Road, 27 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 7.7 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 17 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, quietness comes in at 66, with traffic safety at 23. A 23 on traffic safety places 31 Road in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts housing at 64 and infrastructure at 54 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, 31 Road ranks 57 on food nearby and 36 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 31 Road, at 66. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 83.
About 27% of the 608 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 166 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 Road runs through Flushing, Murray Hill and Old Astoria, 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).