Hempstead Avenue, Staten Island: Grade B · 311 & City Data

Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Hempstead Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.

Calm 76, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 33, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts Hempstead Avenue in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (94) and tree cover (42). Parking (24) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

The file runs across 13 distinct 311 categories in all.

The HPD file on Hempstead Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 55 residential buildings on Hempstead Avenue hold the 59 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Hempstead Avenue since 2021.

Among smaller avenues, Hempstead Avenue ranks 89 on infrastructure and 65 on cleanliness. Hempstead Avenue sits in the stronger half of smaller avenues on cleanliness. The card also puts housing at 81 and traffic safety at 78 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Hempstead Avenue ranks 31 on food nearby and 30 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Hempstead Avenue, at 42. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.

The strongest band-ranked measure on Hempstead Avenue is quietness, at 94.

Of the 59 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.

Nearest streets in Staten Island

Hempstead Avenue runs through New Dorp, 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).

The full report for Hempstead Avenue