Locust Avenue, Staten Island: Grade B+ · 311 & City Data
Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does Locust Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 70 out of 100.
Calm 71, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Locust Avenue in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (99) and food nearby (73). Traffic safety (40) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Locust Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 15 of them. Homeless person assistance follows with 12 reports. The file runs across 38 distinct 311 categories in all.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Locust Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 112 homes in 91 residential buildings on Locust Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against smaller avenues, cleanliness comes in at 82, with housing at 58. That 58 on housing puts Locust Avenue in the stronger half of smaller avenues. The card also puts parking at 67 and infrastructure at 63 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Locust Avenue ranks 66 on transit and 62 on tree cover. Locust Avenue ranks 73 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 99.
Of the 112 homes on file, none 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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Locust Avenue runs through New Dorp, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Staten Island, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Brooklyn vs Staten Island: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).