South Avenue, Staten Island NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
Grade F, 25 out of 100. How does South Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 25 out of 100.
Calm 19, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 35, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts South Avenue in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (29) and tree cover (95); traffic safety (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against South Avenue. 181 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 1 among smaller avenues. HPD has cited 6 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Complaints are rare by comparison. Tree cover ranks 95, the strongest of the ten dimensions, and access ranks 35 against every street in the city.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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