Lax Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Lax Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 12, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Lax Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (87) and tree cover (36). Transit (2) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Blocked driveway leads the 311 file on Lax Avenue, with 31 reports. Across every category, 60 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 52% of them name blocked driveway. The file runs across 9 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Lax Avenue carries roughly 78 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Lax Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 10 residential buildings on Lax Avenue hold the 77 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 7.7 homes to a building.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Lax Avenue have injured no one.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 84, with parking at 7. A 7 on parking places Lax Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts quietness at 81 and infrastructure at 25 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 12 and transit 2, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 36. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Lax Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is where Lax Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 87.
None of the 77 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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Lax Avenue runs through College Point, 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).