Jamaica Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Jamaica Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against major corridors. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Jamaica Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (73) and tree cover (98). Cleanliness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Jamaica Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 1,746 of them, and cleanliness ranks 5 among major corridors. Illegal parking accounts for 35% of the 4,977 reports on file here. Mobile food vendor follows with 543 reports, and commercial noise with 349. In all, 116 distinct 311 categories are represented on Jamaica Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 154 reports for every 100 homes on Jamaica Avenue.
HPD has cited 273 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Jamaica Avenue is pests, at 338 violations. Paint and lead follows at 106 violations, then bed bugs at 94. The housing file lists 1,193 residential buildings on Jamaica Avenue holding 3,235 homes, with 32 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.7 homes each.
NYPD records 849 people injured in crashes on Jamaica Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 64 among major corridors and housing ranks 51. Jamaica Avenue sits in the stronger half of major corridors on housing. Traffic safety ranks 57 on the same scale, with parking at 55. Against every street in the city, Jamaica Avenue ranks 65 on food nearby and 41 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. Jamaica Avenue is ranked against about 190 major corridors citywide.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 73.
13% of the 3,235 homes recorded on Jamaica Avenue are rent-stabilized, 421 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 Jamaica, Queens Village and Hollis, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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