Villa Avenue, Bronx: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does Villa Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against busy avenues. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Villa Avenue in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (99) and transit (96). Housing (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Villa Avenue, with 161 reports. Across every category, 1,419 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 11% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise follows with 100 reports, and unsanitary condition with 76. The file runs across 50 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,189 homes on file, that is about 119 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 329 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 28 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Villa Avenue is paint and lead, at 212 violations. Pests follows at 207 violations, then doors at 182. City housing records put 1,189 homes in 38 residential buildings on Villa Avenue, 21 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 16 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 31 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 98 among busy avenues and quietness ranks 23. Villa Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on quietness. The card also puts parking at 89 and cleanliness at 75 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 77 and tree cover 46, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Villa Avenue ranks 96 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Villa Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Villa Avenue is traffic safety, at 99.
44% of the 1,189 homes recorded on Villa Avenue are rent-stabilized, 485 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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