Jackson Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does Jackson Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 23, ranked against busy avenues. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Jackson Avenue in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (49) and tree cover (79). Street crime (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Jackson Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 264 of them. Residential noise accounts for 23% of the 1,169 reports on file here. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 209 reports, then blocked driveway at 60. In all, 72 distinct 311 categories are represented on Jackson Avenue. About 124 reports per 100 homes sit on Jackson Avenue, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 108 Class C violations on Jackson Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 87 violations on file. Doors follows at 62 violations, then bed bugs at 44. The housing file lists 134 residential buildings on Jackson Avenue holding 941 homes, with 59 walk-ups and 8 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 7 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 28 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 38 among busy avenues and quietness ranks 6. A 6 on quietness places Jackson Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts housing at 21 and infrastructure at 12 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Jackson Avenue ranks 71 on transit and 48 on food nearby. Jackson Avenue ranks 79 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Jackson Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Jackson Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 49.
About 41% of the 941 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 348 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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Jackson Avenue runs through Mott Haven, Melrose and Morrisania, 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).