Locke Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Locke Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 23, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Locke Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (97) and tree cover (32). Cleanliness (11) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Abandoned vehicle leads the 311 file on Locke Avenue, with 13 reports, and cleanliness ranks 11 among smaller avenues. Illegal parking follows with 12 reports. The file runs across 16 distinct 311 categories in all.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Locke Avenue. The housing file lists 50 residential buildings on Locke Avenue holding 86 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Locke Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Locke Avenue ranks 90 on housing and 26 on infrastructure. A 26 on infrastructure places Locke Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, traffic safety sits at 87 and parking at 50. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 27 and transit at 17. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Locke Avenue, at 32. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Locke Avenue is scored inside.
Quietness is where Locke Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 97.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 86 on Locke Avenue.
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.
Nearest streets in Queens
Locke Avenue runs through Whitestone, 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).