Claude Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Claude Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 68, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 21, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Claude Avenue in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (97) and transit (33). Tree cover (4) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
The file runs across 19 distinct 311 categories in all.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Claude Avenue. PLUTO counts 28 residential buildings and 135 homes on Claude Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Claude Avenue holds about 4.8 homes.
Against smaller avenues, cleanliness comes in at 88, with quietness at 38. A 38 on quietness places Claude Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, infrastructure sits at 74 and traffic safety at 55. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 12 and tree cover at 4. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Claude Avenue, at 33. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Claude Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Claude Avenue is parking, at 90.
None of the 135 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.
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Claude Avenue runs through South Jamaica, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Queens, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).