Dorchester Road, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Dorchester Road in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 18, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 79, 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 Dorchester Road in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (44) and transit (80). Housing (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Dorchester Road name heat and hot water than any other category, 211 of them. The whole 311 file on Dorchester Road holds 761 reports, and heat and hot water is 28% of it. Illegal parking follows with 128 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 61. The file runs across 56 distinct 311 categories in all. About 163 reports per 100 homes sit on Dorchester Road, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 119 Class C violations on Dorchester Road, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 26 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Dorchester Road is paint and lead, at 113 violations. Pests accounts for 81 more, and plumbing for 45. PLUTO counts 41 residential buildings and 466 homes on Dorchester Road, with 7 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 11 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Dorchester Road have injured 34 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 30 among built-up residential streets and traffic safety ranks 7. A 7 on traffic safety places Dorchester Road in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 29 and parking at 10 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Dorchester Road ranks 78 on food nearby and 78 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Dorchester Road, at 80. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Dorchester Road is infrastructure, at 44.
Rent stabilization covers about 71% of the 466 homes on file, 331 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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Dorchester Road runs through Flatbush and Flatbush, Ditmas Park & Parkville, 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).