Sweetwater Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311 & City Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Sweetwater Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 46, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Sweetwater Avenue in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (77) and food nearby (57). Street crime (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Sweetwater Avenue. 22 residential buildings on Sweetwater Avenue hold the 24 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Sweetwater Avenue have injured no one.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 58 among smaller avenues and quietness ranks 33. A 33 on quietness places Sweetwater Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts housing at 57 and infrastructure at 44 among smaller avenues. Transit ranks 50 and tree cover 18, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Sweetwater Avenue ranks 57 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Parking is where Sweetwater Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 77.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 24 on Sweetwater 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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Sweetwater Avenue runs through Great Kills, 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).