Carmel Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Carmel Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 68, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 25, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Carmel Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (76) and tree cover (30). Food nearby (18) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
In all, 10 distinct 311 categories are represented on Carmel Avenue.
The HPD file on Carmel Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 30 residential buildings on Carmel Avenue hold the 34 homes on file, 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, traffic safety comes in at 71, with parking at 55. That 55 on parking puts Carmel Avenue in the stronger half of smaller avenues. Quietness ranks 69 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 57. Transit ranks 27 and food nearby 18, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 30. Carmel Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Carmel Avenue is housing, at 74.
None of the 34 homes on file 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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Carmel Avenue runs through Westerleigh, 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).