Commonwealth Boulevard, Queens: Grade C · 311 & City Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Commonwealth Boulevard in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against major corridors. Access 32, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, and little within a walk.
That puts Commonwealth Boulevard in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (93) and tree cover (91). Transit (8) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Commonwealth Boulevard. Reported crashes here have injured 29 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 30 among major corridors. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 162 reports. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (26 reports) and damaged tree (24). In all, 51 distinct 311 categories are represented on Commonwealth Boulevard. Set against the 345 homes on file, that is about 41 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Commonwealth Boulevard, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 152 residential buildings on Commonwealth Boulevard holding 345 homes, with 2 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.3 homes each.
Against major corridors, quietness comes in at 83, with parking at 12. Commonwealth Boulevard sits in the weakest quarter of major corridors on parking. The card also puts cleanliness at 40 and infrastructure at 19 among major corridors. Food nearby ranks 31 and transit 8, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Commonwealth Boulevard, at 91. Commonwealth Boulevard is ranked against about 190 major corridors citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Commonwealth Boulevard is housing, at 93.
Of the 345 homes on file, none 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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Commonwealth Boulevard runs through Bellerose and Douglaston, 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).