Ward Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Ward Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against busy avenues. Access 72, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Ward Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (89) and food nearby (80). Cleanliness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Ward Avenue, with 92 reports, and cleanliness ranks 2 among busy avenues. Across every category, 677 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name heat and hot water. Blocked driveway follows with 52 reports, and residential noise with 51. Reports on Ward Avenue span 54 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 633 homes on file, that is about 107 reports per 100 homes.
Ward Avenue carries 83 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 13 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 128 violations on file. Paint and lead accounts for 71 more, and doors for 51. 128 residential buildings on Ward Avenue hold the 633 homes on file, 74 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 4.9 homes each.
Reported crashes on Ward Avenue have injured 5 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Ward Avenue ranks 53 on parking and 13 on housing. Ward Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on housing. The card also puts infrastructure at 50 and quietness at 19 among busy avenues. Transit ranks 70 and tree cover 65, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 80. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Traffic safety is where Ward Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 89.
Rent stabilization covers about 46% of the 633 homes on file, 288 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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