Church Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does Church Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against busy avenues. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Church Avenue in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (98) and tree cover (94). Traffic safety (26) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Church Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 585 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 26 among busy avenues. Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Church Avenue, with 599 reports. Across every category, 2,328 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (227 reports) and illegal parking (184). Reports on Church Avenue span 105 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 118 reports for every 100 homes on Church Avenue.
Inspectors have written 287 Class C violations on Church Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 15 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Church Avenue is pests, at 263 violations. Paint and lead follows at 188 violations, then doors at 133. City housing records put 1,973 homes in 456 residential buildings on Church Avenue, 37 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 4.3 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 93 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 60. That 60 on cleanliness puts Church Avenue in the stronger half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, quietness sits at 75 and housing at 64. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 78 and transit at 53. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Church Avenue, at 94. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
About 27% of the 1,973 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 535 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.
Nearest streets in Brooklyn
- Linden Boulevard, Brooklyn
- Snyder Avenue, Brooklyn
- Tilden Avenue, Brooklyn
- Cortelyou Road, Brooklyn
- Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn
- Maple Street, Brooklyn
Church Avenue runs through East Flatbush & Rugby, East Flatbush & Erasmus and Kensington, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).