Elks Road, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does Elks Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 46, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Elks Road in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (96) and transit (52). Tree cover (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
In all, 13 distinct 311 categories are represented on Elks Road.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Elks Road. 34 residential buildings on Elks Road hold the 66 homes on file, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Elks Road have injured no one.
Against quiet residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 81, with parking at 60. A 60 on parking places Elks Road in the stronger half of quiet residential streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 71 and housing at 62 among quiet residential streets. Food nearby ranks 51 and tree cover 22, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 52. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Elks Road is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
None of the 66 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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Elks Road runs through Elmhurst, 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).