Amherst Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Amherst Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 39, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Amherst Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (98) and transit (52). Food nearby (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
In all, 13 distinct 311 categories are represented on Amherst Avenue.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Amherst Avenue. 47 residential buildings on Amherst Avenue hold the 52 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among smaller avenues, Amherst Avenue ranks 92 on quietness and 37 on infrastructure. A 37 on infrastructure places Amherst Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts housing at 78 and traffic safety at 38 among smaller avenues. Tree cover ranks 46 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Amherst Avenue, at 52. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Amherst Avenue is parking, at 98.
Of the 52 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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Amherst Avenue runs through Oakwood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Staten Island, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Brooklyn vs Staten Island: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).