81 Road, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does 81 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 39, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 81 Road in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (98) and tree cover (44). Traffic safety (31) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 81 Road, with 44 reports. Across every category, 47 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 94% of them name illegal parking. Water system follows with 27 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 16. In all, 23 distinct 311 categories are represented on 81 Road. Set against the 95 homes on file, that is about 49 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 81 Road, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 56 residential buildings on 81 Road hold the 95 homes on file, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among quiet residential streets, 81 Road ranks 90 on cleanliness and 37 on parking. 81 Road sits in the weaker half of quiet residential streets on parking. Quietness ranks 42 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 40. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 39 and transit at 36. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 81 Road, at 44. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
Of the 95 homes on file, none 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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81 Road runs through Glendale, 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).