Sumner Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Sumner Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 31, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Sumner Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (91) and transit (43). Infrastructure (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
In all, 12 distinct 311 categories are represented on Sumner Avenue.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Sumner Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 34 residential buildings on Sumner Avenue hold the 46 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Sumner Avenue have injured no one.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 72, with housing at 21. Sumner Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. Measured against smaller avenues, cleanliness sits at 58 and parking at 26. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 27 and tree cover at 9. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 43. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Sumner Avenue is quietness, at 91.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 46 on Sumner Avenue.
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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Sumner Avenue runs through Mariner's Harbor, 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).