Decatur Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Decatur Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Decatur Street in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (56) and tree cover (94). Cleanliness (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Decatur Street name residential noise than any other category, 242 of them, and cleanliness ranks 15 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 1,539 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (219 reports) and heat and hot water (116). In all, 77 distinct 311 categories are represented on Decatur Street. Divided by the homes on file, Decatur Street carries roughly 59 reports per 100 of them.
Decatur Street carries 130 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Decatur Street is pests, at 222 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 171 more, and paint and lead for 66. City housing records put 2,609 homes in 870 residential buildings on Decatur Street, 327 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 46 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 47, with housing at 30. Decatur Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on housing. Infrastructure ranks 43 on the same scale, with quietness at 41. Transit ranks 79 and food nearby 75, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Decatur Street ranks 94 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Decatur Street is parking, at 56.
8% of the 2,609 homes recorded on Decatur Street are rent-stabilized, 208 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 Street runs through Bed-Stuy, Bushwick and Ocean Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).