Hempstead Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Hempstead Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against busy avenues. Access 32, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Hempstead Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (98) and tree cover (59). Transit (7) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Hempstead Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on Hempstead Avenue have injured 147 people, and traffic safety ranks 11 among busy avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 66 reports. The whole 311 file on Hempstead Avenue holds 176 reports, and illegal parking is 38% of it. After that the file runs to illegal dumping (46 reports) and dirty condition (41). The file runs across 54 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 229 homes on file, that is about 77 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 4 Class C violations on Hempstead Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Hempstead Avenue is pests, at 17 violations. 127 residential buildings on Hempstead Avenue hold the 229 homes on file, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among busy avenues, Hempstead Avenue ranks 97 on quietness and 11 on traffic safety. An 11 on traffic safety places Hempstead Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts parking at 92 and cleanliness at 50 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Hempstead Avenue ranks 55 on food nearby and 7 on transit. Hempstead Avenue ranks 59 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Hempstead Avenue is housing, at 98.
The housing file puts 9% of the 229 homes on Hempstead Avenue in rent stabilization, 20 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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Hempstead Avenue runs through Queens Village, 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).