Wales Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Wales Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against busy avenues. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Wales Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (83) and transit (82). Quietness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Wales Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 295 of them. The whole 311 file on Wales Avenue holds 841 reports, and illegal parking is 35% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 108 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 106. In all, 50 distinct 311 categories are represented on Wales Avenue. About 134 reports per 100 homes sit on Wales Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Wales Avenue carries 35 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Wales Avenue, 38 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 27 violations, then structure at 18. The housing file lists 43 residential buildings on Wales Avenue holding 629 homes, with 28 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 15 homes each.
Reported crashes on Wales Avenue have injured 9 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Wales Avenue ranks 77 on traffic safety and 6 on parking. A 6 on parking places Wales Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Infrastructure ranks 66 on the same scale, with housing at 42. Against every street in the city, Wales Avenue ranks 71 on food nearby and 60 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Wales Avenue, at 82. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Wales Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where Wales Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 83.
The housing file puts 54% of the 629 homes on Wales Avenue in rent stabilization, 338 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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