W Houston Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does W Houston Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 93, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W Houston Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (84) and transit (98). Traffic safety (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on West Houston Street. 57 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 8 among built-up residential streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Commercial noise is the most-filed, with 67 reports. Across every category, 225 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 30% of them name commercial noise. Illegal parking follows with 64 reports, and for hire vehicle complaint with 24. Reports on West Houston Street span 54 distinct 311 categories. About 50 reports per 100 homes sit on West Houston Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 7 Class C violations on West Houston Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West Houston Street is bed bugs, at 10 violations. 34 residential buildings on West Houston Street hold the 454 homes on file, 12 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 13 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 79 among built-up residential streets and cleanliness ranks 40. That 40 on cleanliness puts West Houston Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 51 and quietness at 45 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, West Houston Street ranks 97 on food nearby and 73 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West Houston Street, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West Houston Street is parking, at 84.
18% of the 454 homes recorded on West Houston Street are rent-stabilized, 80 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 Houston Street runs through West Village, SoHo and Greenwich Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Manhattan, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Manhattan vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).