Lacombe Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Lacombe Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against busy avenues. Access 26, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Lacombe Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (94) and tree cover (75). Transit (8) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on Lacombe Avenue name street/sidewalk noise than any other category, 98 of them. Across every category, 626 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Water system follows with 78 reports, and residential noise with 77. The file runs across 55 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Lacombe Avenue carries roughly 42 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 41 Class C violations on Lacombe Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 21 violations on file. City housing records put 1,502 homes in 151 residential buildings on Lacombe Avenue, 39 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Lacombe Avenue holds about 9.9 homes.
Reported crashes on Lacombe Avenue have injured 26 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, housing comes in at 74, with infrastructure at 19. Lacombe Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on infrastructure. Measured against busy avenues, parking sits at 68 and quietness at 35. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 23 and transit at 8. Lacombe Avenue ranks 75 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Cleanliness is where Lacombe Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 94.
None of the 1,502 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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Lacombe Avenue runs through Soundview & Clason Point and Castle Hill, 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).