Elmwood Avenue, Staten Island: Grade B · 311 & City Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Elmwood Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 71, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 42, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Elmwood Avenue in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (80) and food nearby (45). Tree cover (33) is the weak spot.
On the record
In all, 10 distinct 311 categories are represented on Elmwood Avenue.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Elmwood Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 51 residential buildings and 55 homes on Elmwood Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Elmwood Avenue have injured no one.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 76 among smaller avenues and quietness ranks 60. Elmwood Avenue sits in the stronger half of smaller avenues on quietness. Parking ranks 71 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 61. The citywide frame puts transit at 43 and tree cover at 33. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 45. Elmwood Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Housing is where Elmwood Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 79.
Of the 55 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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Elmwood Avenue runs through 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).