Commonwealth Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Commonwealth Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against busy avenues. Access 53, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Commonwealth Avenue in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (95) and tree cover (86). Parking (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Commonwealth Avenue, with 595 reports, and parking ranks 5 among busy avenues. Across every category, 1,807 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 33% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 355 reports, and heat and hot water with 141. Reports on Commonwealth Avenue span 69 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,422 homes on file, that is about 127 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 106 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Commonwealth Avenue, 101 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (74 violations) and paint and lead (36). 329 residential buildings on Commonwealth Avenue hold the 1,422 homes on file, 169 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Commonwealth Avenue holds about 4.3 homes.
Since 2021, 6 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, Commonwealth Avenue ranks 48 on cleanliness and 12 on quietness. That 12 on quietness puts Commonwealth Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, infrastructure sits at 34 and housing at 33. Against every street in the city, Commonwealth Avenue ranks 53 on food nearby and 40 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Commonwealth Avenue, at 86. Commonwealth Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
Rent stabilization covers about 29% of the 1,422 homes on file, 408 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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Commonwealth Avenue runs through Soundview, Bruckner & Bronx River and Soundview & Clason Point, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Bronx, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Bronx vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).