W Fordham Road, Bronx: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 22 out of 100. How does W Fordham Road in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 22 out of 100.
Calm 4, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W Fordham Road in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (14) and transit (60). The lowest of the ten is traffic safety (0).
On the record
Crashes are the mark against West Fordham Road. 431 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 0 among quiet residential streets. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on West Fordham Road, with 527 reports. The whole 311 file on West Fordham Road holds 730 reports, and illegal parking is 72% of it. Vendor enforcement follows with 106 reports, and heat and hot water with 62. The file runs across 58 distinct 311 categories in all. About 723 reports per 100 homes sit on West Fordham Road, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 39 Class C violations on West Fordham Road, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 39 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 52 violations on file. Structure follows at 30 violations, then doors at 22. 5 residential buildings on West Fordham Road hold the 101 homes on file, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West Fordham Road holds about 20 homes.
Against quiet residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 10, with quietness at 2. That 2 on quietness puts West Fordham Road in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Housing ranks 7 on the same scale, with parking at 3. Against every street in the city, West Fordham Road ranks 53 on food nearby and 52 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 60. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band West Fordham Road is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where West Fordham Road ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 14.
About 95% of the 101 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 96 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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W Fordham Road runs through University Heights & Fordham, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Bronx, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Bronx vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).