Baxter Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Baxter Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Baxter Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (95) and food nearby (94). Cleanliness (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Baxter Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 27 of them, and cleanliness ranks 12 among smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on Baxter Avenue holds 128 reports, and residential noise is 21% of it. Reports on Baxter Avenue span 43 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Baxter Avenue carries roughly 45 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 25 Class C violations on Baxter Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Baxter Avenue is paint and lead, at 14 violations. The housing file lists 13 residential buildings on Baxter Avenue holding 286 homes, with 2 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 22 homes each.
NYPD records 20 people injured in crashes on Baxter Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Baxter Avenue ranks 94 on parking and 20 on traffic safety. Baxter Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on traffic safety. The card also puts quietness at 27 and housing at 23 among smaller avenues. Transit ranks 90 and tree cover 23, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Baxter Avenue, at 94. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Baxter Avenue is infrastructure, at 95.
The housing file puts 61% of the 286 homes on Baxter Avenue in rent stabilization, 174 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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Baxter Avenue runs through Elmhurst, 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).