Deems Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Deems Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 69, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 28, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Deems Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (97) and food nearby (35). Transit (22) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Reports on Deems Avenue span 6 distinct 311 categories.
Inspectors have written 1 Class C violations on Deems Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 35 residential buildings on Deems Avenue holding 44 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Deems Avenue since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, quietness comes in at 90, with housing at 23. A 23 on housing places Deems Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, traffic safety sits at 71 and cleanliness at 57. Against every street in the city, Deems Avenue ranks 33 on tree cover and 22 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 35. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Deems Avenue is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 97.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 44 on Deems Avenue.
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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Deems Avenue runs through Westerleigh, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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