Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against busy avenues. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Ocean Avenue in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (91) and tree cover (99). Housing (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Ocean Avenue, with 3,032 reports. Across every category, 14,336 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 2,577 reports, then illegal parking at 1,503. The file runs across 115 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Ocean Avenue carries roughly 89 reports per 100 of them.
Ocean Avenue carries 2,717 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 17 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Ocean Avenue is paint and lead, at 2,272 violations. Pests follows at 1,907 violations, then doors at 1,047. City housing records put 16,122 homes in 574 residential buildings on Ocean Avenue, 113 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 188 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 28 homes each.
NYPD records 542 people injured in crashes on Ocean Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Ocean Avenue ranks 65 on parking and 27 on quietness. That 27 on quietness puts Ocean Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Cleanliness ranks 46 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 43. Transit ranks 72 and food nearby 71, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Ocean Avenue, at 99. Ocean Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Ocean Avenue is infrastructure, at 91.
Rent stabilization covers about 65% of the 16,122 homes on file, 10,272 homes in all.
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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Ocean Avenue runs through Sheepshead Bay, Flatbush and Midwood, 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).