Richland Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Richland Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 26, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Richland Avenue in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (99) and tree cover (60). Street crime (3) 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 Richland Avenue.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Richland Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 70 homes in 69 residential buildings on Richland Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 82, with infrastructure at 5. That 5 on infrastructure puts Richland Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Cleanliness ranks 70 on the same scale, with quietness at 56. Against every street in the city, Richland Avenue ranks 18 on food nearby and 17 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 60. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Richland Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Richland Avenue is parking, at 99.
None of the 70 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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Richland Avenue runs through Oakland Gardens, 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).