Dunton Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 24 out of 100. How does Dunton Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 24 out of 100.
Calm 22, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 28, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Dunton Avenue in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (65) and food nearby (39). Infrastructure (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Dunton Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 13 of them. The whole 311 file on Dunton Avenue holds 155 reports, and residential noise is 8% of it. In all, 30 distinct 311 categories are represented on Dunton Avenue. Set against the 33 homes on file, that is about 470 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Dunton Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Dunton Avenue, 30 violations of it. 31 residential buildings on Dunton Avenue hold the 33 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Dunton Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 9 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 2. Dunton Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. Cleanliness ranks 8 on the same scale, with quietness at 3. Against every street in the city, Dunton Avenue ranks 30 on tree cover and 21 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 39. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Dunton Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Dunton Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 65.
None of the 33 homes on file 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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Dunton Avenue runs through Jamaica Estates, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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