Hughes Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Hughes Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against busy avenues. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Hughes Avenue in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (90) and food nearby (89). Housing (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Hughes Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 309 of them. Across every category, 2,105 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 15% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to residential noise (174 reports) and unsanitary condition (127). In all, 62 distinct 311 categories are represented on Hughes Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Hughes Avenue carries roughly 158 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 544 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 41 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Hughes Avenue, 296 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 267 violations, then doors at 224. PLUTO counts 179 residential buildings and 1,336 homes on Hughes Avenue, with 81 walk-ups and 9 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 7.5 homes each.
Reported crashes on Hughes Avenue have injured 7 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Hughes Avenue ranks 86 on parking and 23 on quietness. That 23 on quietness puts Hughes Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 71 and infrastructure at 65 among busy avenues. Tree cover ranks 76 and transit 36, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Hughes Avenue ranks 89 on food nearby, 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 Hughes Avenue is traffic safety, at 90.
About 55% of the 1,336 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 738 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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Hughes Avenue runs through Belmont and Tremont, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Bronx, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Bronx vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).