Lafayette Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Lafayette Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against busy avenues. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Lafayette Avenue in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (47) and tree cover (97). Infrastructure (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Lafayette Avenue, with 205 reports. The whole 311 file on Lafayette Avenue holds 1,421 reports, and residential noise is 14% of it. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 156 reports, then illegal parking at 138. In all, 71 distinct 311 categories are represented on Lafayette Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Lafayette Avenue carries roughly 56 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 140 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Lafayette Avenue, 101 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (84 violations) and doors (68). The housing file lists 216 residential buildings on Lafayette Avenue holding 2,535 homes, with 39 walk-ups and 8 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 12 homes each.
NYPD records 109 people injured in crashes on Lafayette Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Lafayette Avenue ranks 45 on quietness and 33 on traffic safety. A 33 on traffic safety places Lafayette Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Housing ranks 45 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 33. Against every street in the city, Lafayette Avenue ranks 42 on food nearby and 32 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Lafayette Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Lafayette Avenue is parking, at 47.
Rent stabilization covers about 23% of the 2,535 homes on file, 588 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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Lafayette Avenue runs through Castle Hill, Throgs Neck and Soundview & Clason Point, 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).