Balcom Avenue, Bronx: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does Balcom Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 85, ranked against busy avenues. Access 39, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Balcom Avenue in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (99) and tree cover (82). Transit (19) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Balcom Avenue, with 123 reports. Across every category, 299 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to illegal animal kept as pet (62 reports) and residential noise (41). In all, 43 distinct 311 categories are represented on Balcom Avenue. About 22 reports per 100 homes sit on Balcom Avenue, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 4 Class C violations on Balcom Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 23 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 11 violations. 187 residential buildings on Balcom Avenue hold the 1,363 homes on file, 24 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 7.3 homes to a building.
NYPD records 17 people injured in crashes on Balcom Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Balcom Avenue ranks 90 on quietness and 64 on parking. Balcom Avenue sits in the stronger half of busy avenues on parking. Housing ranks 90 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 79. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 42 and transit at 19. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Balcom Avenue, at 82. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Balcom Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Balcom Avenue is cleanliness, at 99.
None of the 1,363 homes on file 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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Balcom Avenue runs through Throgs Neck, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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