Canal Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Canal Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 22, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 90, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Canal Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (82) and food nearby (98). Cleanliness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on Canal Street, with 167 reports, and cleanliness ranks 1 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 873 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Vendor enforcement follows with 139 reports, and illegal parking with 138. The file runs across 85 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 542 homes on file, that is about 161 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 17 Class C violations on Canal Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 18 violations on file. Pests follows at 12 violations, then heat and hot water at 10. 76 residential buildings on Canal Street hold the 542 homes on file, 15 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 11 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 7.1 homes to a building.
NYPD records 281 people injured in crashes on Canal Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 57 among built-up residential streets and traffic safety ranks 1. Canal Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on traffic safety. Infrastructure ranks 28 on the same scale, with quietness at 14. Against every street in the city, Canal Street ranks 96 on transit and 63 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Canal Street, at 98. Canal Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 82.
The housing file puts 16% of the 542 homes on Canal Street in rent stabilization, 88 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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Canal Street runs through SoHo, Chinatown and Tribeca, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Manhattan, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Manhattan vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).