Burden Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Burden Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 33, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Burden Avenue in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (94) and food nearby (45). Tree cover (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Reports on Burden Avenue span 9 distinct 311 categories.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Burden Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 23 homes in 18 residential buildings on Burden Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, quietness comes in at 80, with parking at 21. A 21 on parking places Burden Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, traffic safety sits at 58 and cleanliness at 46. The citywide frame puts transit at 36 and tree cover at 5. Burden Avenue ranks 45 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is where Burden Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 94.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 23 on Burden Avenue.
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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Burden Avenue runs through Port Richmond, 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).