Decatur Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Decatur Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against busy avenues. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Decatur Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (96) and tree cover (88). Housing (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Decatur Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 1,074 of them. Heat and hot water accounts for 25% of the 4,270 reports on file here. Illegal parking follows with 557 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 506. The file runs across 87 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 3,121 homes on file, that is about 137 reports per 100 homes.
Decatur Avenue carries 744 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 24 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Decatur Avenue is pests, at 516 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (482 violations) and doors (348). 236 residential buildings on Decatur Avenue hold the 3,121 homes on file, 89 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 28 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 13 homes each.
Reported crashes on Decatur Avenue have injured 11 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 40 among busy avenues and quietness ranks 10. That 10 on quietness puts Decatur Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, infrastructure sits at 35 and cleanliness at 30. Against every street in the city, Decatur Avenue ranks 75 on transit and 72 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Decatur Avenue, at 88. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Traffic safety is where Decatur Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 96.
Rent stabilization covers about 67% of the 3,121 homes on file, 2,082 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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Decatur Avenue runs through Norwood, Bedford Park and University Heights & Fordham, 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).