Walton Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Walton Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against busy avenues. Access 89, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Walton Avenue in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (64) and tree cover (99). Housing (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Walton Avenue, with 1,401 reports. Across every category, 9,484 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 15% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to residential noise (1,122 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (980). In all, 97 distinct 311 categories are represented on Walton Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Walton Avenue carries roughly 139 reports per 100 of them.
Walton Avenue carries 1,829 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 27 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Walton Avenue, 1,086 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 1,037 more, and doors for 973. The housing file lists 215 residential buildings on Walton Avenue holding 6,821 homes, with 83 walk-ups and 67 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 32 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 138 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 61 among busy avenues and quietness ranks 7. That 7 on quietness puts Walton Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts parking at 50 and cleanliness at 43 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Walton Avenue ranks 89 on transit and 82 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Walton Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 64.
77% of the 6,821 homes recorded on Walton Avenue are rent-stabilized, 5,168 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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Walton Avenue runs through Concourse, Mount Hope and Mount Eden, 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).