Dix Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Dix Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 59, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Dix Avenue in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (97) and transit (77). Housing (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Dix Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 26 of them. The whole 311 file on Dix Avenue holds 211 reports, and residential noise is 12% of it. Unsanitary condition is the next most-filed at 24 reports, then heat and hot water at 17. Reports on Dix Avenue span 26 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Dix Avenue carries roughly 133 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 60 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 38 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on Dix Avenue, 31 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (28 violations) and paint and lead (15). 17 residential buildings on Dix Avenue hold the 159 homes on file, 8 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Dix Avenue holds about 9.4 homes.
Among smaller avenues, Dix Avenue ranks 88 on parking and 4 on quietness. That 4 on quietness puts Dix Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, traffic safety sits at 33 and cleanliness at 21. Against every street in the city, Dix Avenue ranks 53 on food nearby and 23 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 77. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Dix Avenue is infrastructure, at 97.
Rent stabilization covers about 82% of the 159 homes on file, 130 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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Dix Avenue runs through Far Rockaway, 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).