Canton Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Canton Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 69, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 28, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Canton Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (92) and tree cover (41). Food nearby (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Canton Avenue, with 10 reports. The whole 311 file on Canton Avenue holds 34 reports, and illegal parking is 29% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (10 reports) and residential noise (10). The file runs across 15 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Canton Avenue carries roughly 59 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Canton Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 58 homes in 32 residential buildings on Canton Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Canton Avenue since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, housing comes in at 87, with parking at 24. That 24 on parking puts Canton Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, traffic safety sits at 84 and quietness at 29. Transit ranks 32 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 41. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Canton Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Canton Avenue is infrastructure, at 92.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 58 on Canton 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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Canton Avenue runs through Arden Heights and Annadale, 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).