Mills Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Mills Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 67, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 37, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Mills Avenue in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (97) and tree cover (59). Transit (24) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
In all, 21 distinct 311 categories are represented on Mills Avenue.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Mills Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 70 residential buildings on Mills Avenue hold the 97 homes on file, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against smaller avenues, cleanliness comes in at 88, with quietness at 46. That 46 on quietness puts Mills Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 74 and traffic safety at 56 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Mills Avenue ranks 45 on food nearby and 24 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Mills Avenue, at 59. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Housing is where Mills Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 97.
None of the 97 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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Mills Avenue runs through Grasmere, 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).