Clarendon Road, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does Clarendon Road in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 27, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 52, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Clarendon Road in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (50) and tree cover (83). Traffic safety (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Clarendon Road. Since 2021, reported crashes on Clarendon Road have injured 301 people, and traffic safety ranks 1 among built-up residential streets. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Clarendon Road, with 309 reports. The whole 311 file on Clarendon Road holds 1,155 reports, and illegal parking is 27% of it. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (127 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (89). The file runs across 81 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,278 homes on file, that is about 90 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 163 Class C violations on Clarendon Road, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 13 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 150 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (86 violations) and doors (63). City housing records put 1,278 homes in 465 residential buildings on Clarendon Road, 77 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.7 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 43 among built-up residential streets and housing ranks 18. That 18 on housing puts Clarendon Road in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 35 and parking at 28. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 62 and transit at 33. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Clarendon Road, at 83. Clarendon Road is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Clarendon Road is quietness, at 50.
Rent stabilization covers about 20% of the 1,278 homes on file, 260 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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Clarendon Road runs through East Flatbush & Rugby, East Flatbush & Erasmus and East Flatbush & Farragut, 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).