Detroit Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Detroit Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 46, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Detroit Avenue in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (93) and tree cover (71). Food nearby (27) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
The file runs across 16 distinct 311 categories in all.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Detroit Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 122 homes in 81 residential buildings on Detroit Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Detroit Avenue since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, quietness comes in at 89, with cleanliness at 29. Detroit Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on cleanliness. The card also puts housing at 75 and infrastructure at 45 among smaller avenues. Transit ranks 48 and food nearby 27, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 71. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Traffic safety is where Detroit Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 93.
Of the 122 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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Detroit Avenue runs through Annadale and Great Kills, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Staten Island, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Brooklyn vs Staten Island: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).