Jerome Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 31 out of 100. How does Jerome Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 31 out of 100.
Calm 9, ranked against major corridors. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Jerome Avenue in the bottom 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (24) and tree cover (97). Street crime (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Jerome Avenue, with 794 reports. The whole 311 file on Jerome Avenue holds 4,318 reports, and heat and hot water is 18% of it. Illegal parking follows with 639 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 505. In all, 94 distinct 311 categories are represented on Jerome Avenue. Set against the 3,183 homes on file, that is about 136 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 583 Class C violations on Jerome Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 18 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Jerome Avenue, 310 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 297 violations, then doors at 226. City housing records put 3,183 homes in 68 residential buildings on Jerome Avenue, 21 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 24 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Jerome Avenue holds about 47 homes.
Reported crashes on Jerome Avenue have injured 787 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 22 among major corridors and cleanliness ranks 2. Jerome Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of major corridors on cleanliness. Traffic safety ranks 10 on the same scale, with housing at 6. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 71 and transit at 65. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. About 190 major corridors make up the band Jerome Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Jerome Avenue is infrastructure, at 24.
Rent stabilization covers about 46% of the 3,183 homes on file, 1,382 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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Jerome Avenue runs through Bedford Park, University Heights & Morris Heights and Mount Eden, 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).