Sumpter Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Sumpter Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 34, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Sumpter Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (67) and transit (81). Housing (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Sumpter Street name blocked driveway than any other category, 87 of them. Across every category, 1,005 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 9% of them name blocked driveway. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 84 reports, then residential noise at 78. In all, 62 distinct 311 categories are represented on Sumpter Street. Set against the 828 homes on file, that is about 121 reports per 100 homes.
Sumpter Street carries 191 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 23 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 125 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 72 violations, then doors at 62. City housing records put 828 homes in 212 residential buildings on Sumpter Street, 71 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.9 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 7 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Sumpter Street ranks 44 on parking and 5 on cleanliness. A 5 on cleanliness places Sumpter Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 37 and quietness at 24 among built-up residential streets. Tree cover ranks 76 and food nearby 57, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 81. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Sumpter Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Sumpter Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 67.
About 15% of the 828 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 117 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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Sumpter Street runs through Ocean Hill and Bed-Stuy, 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).