Wallabout Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Wallabout Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Wallabout Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (97) and transit (75). Traffic safety (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Wallabout Street. Reported crashes here have injured 30 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 14 among built-up residential streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 41 reports. Across every category, 173 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to drug activity (18 reports) and street condition (17). The file runs across 37 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 858 homes on file, that is about 20 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Wallabout Street carries 9 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Wallabout Street, 15 violations of it. Doors accounts for 12 more, and pests for 12. City housing records put 858 homes in 46 residential buildings on Wallabout Street, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Wallabout Street holds about 19 homes.
Among built-up residential streets, Wallabout Street ranks 68 on parking and 32 on cleanliness. That 32 on cleanliness puts Wallabout Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts housing at 62 and infrastructure at 43 among built-up residential streets. Tree cover ranks 68 and food nearby 57, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Wallabout Street, at 75. Wallabout Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Wallabout Street is quietness, at 97.
Rent stabilization covers about 9% of the 858 homes on file, 69 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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Wallabout Street runs through South Williamsburg, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).