Ketcham Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Ketcham Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 79, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Ketcham Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (84) and food nearby (93). Cleanliness (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Ketcham Street, with 34 reports, and cleanliness ranks 8 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 232 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 15% of them name heat and hot water. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 32 reports, then illegal parking at 19. In all, 34 distinct 311 categories are represented on Ketcham Street. Set against the 363 homes on file, that is about 64 reports per 100 homes.
Ketcham Street carries 32 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 9 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Ketcham Street is pests, at 11 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 10 violations. 51 residential buildings on Ketcham Street hold the 363 homes on file, 32 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 7.1 homes to a building.
Against built-up residential streets, quietness comes in at 64, with housing at 18. Ketcham Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on housing. Measured against built-up residential streets, traffic safety sits at 57 and parking at 32. Against every street in the city, Ketcham Street ranks 91 on transit and 29 on tree cover. Ketcham Street ranks 93 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 84.
The housing file puts 12% of the 363 homes on Ketcham Street in rent stabilization, 42 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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Ketcham Street runs through Elmhurst, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Queens, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).