Mill Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 34 out of 100. How does Mill Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 34 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 40, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Mill Avenue in the bottom 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (57) and tree cover (78). Cleanliness (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Mill Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 31 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 11 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 49 reports. Across every category, 199 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 34 reports, then blocked driveway at 24. Reports on Mill Avenue span 53 distinct 311 categories. About 54 reports per 100 homes sit on Mill Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Mill Avenue carries 2 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 368 homes in 249 residential buildings on Mill Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 38 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 11. Mill Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on traffic safety. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 36 and infrastructure at 22. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 57 and transit at 14. Mill Avenue ranks 78 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Mill Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Mill Avenue is housing, at 57.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 368 on Mill 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.
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Mill Avenue runs through Marine Park, 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).