81 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does 81 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 81 Avenue in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (72) and tree cover (91). Parking (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 81 Avenue, with 231 reports, and parking ranks 6 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 270 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 86% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 31 reports, then damaged tree at 30. The file runs across 39 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 277 homes on file, that is about 97 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 81 Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 277 homes in 199 residential buildings on 81 Avenue, 13 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 18 people injured in crashes on 81 Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, 81 Avenue ranks 55 on housing and 11 on infrastructure. 81 Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on infrastructure. Cleanliness ranks 25 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 15. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 51 and transit at 34. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 91. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band 81 Avenue is scored inside.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 72.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 277 on 81 Avenue.
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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81 Avenue runs through Glen Oaks, Bellerose and Pomonok, 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).