Jackson Avenue, Queens: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 82 out of 100. How does Jackson Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 82 out of 100.
Calm 79, ranked against busy avenues. Access 88, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Jackson Avenue in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (98) and transit (98). Parking (37) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Jackson Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 553 of them, and parking ranks 37 among busy avenues. Across every category, 1,398 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 40% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 79 reports, then encampment at 43. The file runs across 84 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 4,191 homes on file, that is about 33 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Jackson Avenue carries 20 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Jackson Avenue is pests, at 10 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 10 more. City housing records put 4,191 homes in 45 residential buildings on Jackson Avenue, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 12 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 93 homes each.
Reported crashes on Jackson Avenue have injured 102 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, quietness comes in at 94, with traffic safety at 58. A 58 on traffic safety places Jackson Avenue in the stronger half of busy avenues. Infrastructure ranks 88 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 86. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 93 and tree cover at 53. Jackson Avenue ranks 98 on transit, 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 Jackson Avenue is housing, at 98.
The housing file puts 55% of the 4,191 homes on Jackson Avenue in rent stabilization, 2,308 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 Long Island City, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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