Charles Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311 & City Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Charles Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 34, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 52, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Charles Avenue in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (87) and food nearby (73). Housing (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Charles Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 20 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 14% of the 144 reports on file here. Unsanitary condition is the next most-filed, with 11 reports. In all, 28 distinct 311 categories are represented on Charles Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 160 reports for every 100 homes on Charles Avenue.
The HPD file on Charles Avenue carries 7 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. HPD's most-cited category on Charles Avenue is pests, at 12 violations. The housing file lists 52 residential buildings on Charles Avenue holding 90 homes, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Among smaller avenues, Charles Avenue ranks 45 on traffic safety and 19 on quietness. Charles Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on quietness. Infrastructure ranks 31 on the same scale, with parking at 20. Against every street in the city, Charles Avenue ranks 43 on transit and 43 on tree cover. Charles Avenue ranks 73 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 87.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 90 on Charles 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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Charles 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).