Utica Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Utica Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against major corridors. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Utica Avenue in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (68) and tree cover (88). Traffic safety (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Utica Avenue. 1,036 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 10 among major corridors. Commercial noise is the most-filed complaint on Utica Avenue, with 215 reports. Across every category, 1,666 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 13% of them name commercial noise. After that the file runs to residential noise (209 reports) and illegal parking (208). The file runs across 95 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Utica Avenue carries roughly 134 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Utica Avenue carries 163 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 13 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Utica Avenue, 121 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 62 more, and doors for 59. The housing file lists 319 residential buildings on Utica Avenue holding 1,246 homes, with 31 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 3.9 homes to a building.
Among major corridors, Utica Avenue ranks 56 on parking and 23 on cleanliness. That 23 on cleanliness puts Utica Avenue in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Quietness ranks 36 on the same scale, with housing at 26. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 72 and transit at 41. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Utica Avenue, at 88. About 190 major corridors make up the band Utica Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 68.
About 12% of the 1,246 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 142 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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Utica Avenue runs through Flatlands, East Flatbush & Rugby and Crown Heights, 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).