W 181 Street, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does W 181 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 27, ranked against numbered streets. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 181 Street in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (76) and food nearby (79). Traffic safety (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for West 181 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on West 181 Street have injured 31 people, and traffic safety ranks 1 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Blocked driveway is the most-filed, with 20 reports. The whole 311 file on West 181 Street holds 74 reports, and blocked driveway is 27% of it. Behind it sits illegal parking, with 15 reports. The file runs across 26 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, West 181 Street carries roughly 70 reports per 100 of them.
West 181 Street carries 8 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 29 residential buildings on West 181 Street holding 106 homes, with 4 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.7 homes each.
Among numbered streets, West 181 Street ranks 52 on infrastructure and 2 on cleanliness. A 2 on cleanliness places West 181 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 45 and housing at 24. The citywide frame puts transit at 75 and tree cover at 34. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 79. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 76.
About 42% of the 106 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 45 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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