Orchard Street, Queens: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 96 out of 100. How does Orchard Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 96 out of 100.
Calm 95, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 97, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Orchard Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (98) and transit (99). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Orchard Street name illegal parking than any other category, 79 of them. In all, 6 distinct 311 categories are represented on Orchard Street. The 311 file works out to about 8 reports for every 100 homes on Orchard Street.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Orchard Street.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 98, with parking at 73. Orchard Street sits in the stronger half of built-up residential streets on parking. Infrastructure ranks 98 on the same scale, with housing at 96. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 94 and tree cover at 0. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Cleanliness is where Orchard Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 98.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 824 on Orchard Street.
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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Orchard Street runs through Long Island City, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Queens, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).