Caton Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Caton Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against busy avenues. Access 83, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Caton Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (72) and transit (83). Traffic safety (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Caton Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on Caton Avenue have injured 205 people, and traffic safety ranks 4 among busy avenues. Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Caton Avenue, with 499 reports. The whole 311 file on Caton Avenue holds 1,423 reports, and heat and hot water is 35% of it. After that the file runs to illegal parking (172 reports) and residential noise (102). The file runs across 80 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Caton Avenue carries roughly 106 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 300 Class C violations on Caton Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 22 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 194 violations on file. Paint and lead accounts for 184 more, and doors for 137. The housing file lists 90 residential buildings on Caton Avenue holding 1,347 homes, with 26 walk-ups and 14 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 15 homes to a building.
Among busy avenues, Caton Avenue ranks 39 on quietness and 12 on housing. Caton Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on housing. Measured against busy avenues, infrastructure sits at 22 and cleanliness at 17. Against every street in the city, Caton Avenue ranks 83 on food nearby and 81 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 83. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 72.
About 57% of the 1,347 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 764 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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