Jamaica Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 35 out of 100. How does Jamaica Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 35 out of 100.
Calm 16, ranked against major corridors. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Jamaica Avenue in the bottom 9% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (27) and tree cover (82). Traffic safety (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Jamaica Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 327 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 4 among major corridors. Residential noise draws more reports than anything else here, 147 of them. The whole 311 file on Jamaica Avenue holds 712 reports, and residential noise is 21% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 111 reports, then heat and hot water at 67. The file runs across 74 distinct 311 categories in all. About 144 reports per 100 homes sit on Jamaica Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Jamaica Avenue carries 31 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Jamaica Avenue is pests, at 51 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 31 more, and bed bugs for 23. 133 residential buildings on Jamaica Avenue hold the 493 homes on file, 37 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Jamaica Avenue holds about 3.7 homes.
Against major corridors, infrastructure comes in at 26, with quietness at 8. That 8 on quietness puts Jamaica Avenue in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Measured against major corridors, parking sits at 22 and housing at 19. Against every street in the city, Jamaica Avenue ranks 80 on transit and 42 on food nearby. Jamaica Avenue ranks 82 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 190 major corridors make up the band Jamaica Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where Jamaica Avenue ranks best against major corridors, at 27.
38% of the 493 homes recorded on Jamaica Avenue are rent-stabilized, 184 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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Jamaica Avenue runs through Cypress Hills and East New York, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).