Bolton Avenue, Bronx: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 23 out of 100. How does Bolton Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 23 out of 100.
Calm 21, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 27, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Bolton Avenue in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (34) and tree cover (65). Transit (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Bolton Avenue, with 53 reports. Across every category, 193 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name illegal parking. Abandoned vehicle is the next most-filed at 33 reports, then blocked driveway at 30. In all, 44 distinct 311 categories are represented on Bolton Avenue. About 81 reports per 100 homes sit on Bolton Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 3 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. 110 residential buildings on Bolton Avenue hold the 238 homes on file, 36 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.2 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Bolton Avenue have injured 12 people since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Bolton Avenue ranks 26 on housing and 16 on parking. That 16 on parking puts Bolton Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 25 and cleanliness at 16. Food nearby ranks 31 and transit 10, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 65. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Bolton Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Bolton Avenue is infrastructure, at 34.
Of the 238 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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Bolton Avenue runs through Soundview & Clason Point, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Bronx, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Bronx vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).