Louisiana Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 35 out of 100. How does Louisiana Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 35 out of 100.
Calm 27, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Louisiana Avenue in the bottom 9% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (95) and tree cover (87). Street crime (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Louisiana Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 38 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 4 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 74 reports. Across every category, 202 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 37% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (20 reports) and noise (12). The file runs across 35 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Louisiana Avenue carries roughly 85 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 7 Class C violations on Louisiana Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Louisiana Avenue is pests, at 49 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 42 violations. City housing records put 237 homes in 64 residential buildings on Louisiana Avenue, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3.7 homes each.
Against smaller avenues, infrastructure comes in at 45, with traffic safety at 4. That 4 on traffic safety puts Louisiana Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Quietness ranks 36 on the same scale, with housing at 10. Against every street in the city, Louisiana Avenue ranks 43 on transit and 39 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Louisiana Avenue, at 87. Louisiana Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
Of the 237 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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Louisiana Avenue runs through Spring Creek and East New York & New Lots, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).