Clarke Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data

Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Clarke Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.

Calm 64, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 36, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts Clarke Avenue in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (99) and tree cover (76). Traffic safety (3) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

Crashes are the mark against Clarke Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on Clarke Avenue have injured 27 people, and traffic safety ranks 3 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Street condition is the most-filed, with 23 reports. In all, 28 distinct 311 categories are represented on Clarke Avenue.

The HPD file on Clarke Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 89 residential buildings on Clarke Avenue hold the 91 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 97 among smaller avenues and infrastructure ranks 19. A 19 on infrastructure places Clarke Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 87 and quietness at 83 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 27 and transit 26, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 76. Clarke Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.

The strongest band-ranked measure on Clarke Avenue is parking, at 99.

None of the 91 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.

Nearest streets in Staten Island

Clarke Avenue runs through Oakwood and Todt Hill, 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).

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