Ward Avenue, Staten Island: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does Ward Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.

Calm 74, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 54, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.

That puts Ward Avenue in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on street crime (87) and tree cover (67). Infrastructure (16) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

Reports on Ward Avenue span 25 distinct 311 categories.

No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Ward Avenue. PLUTO counts 64 residential buildings and 77 homes on Ward Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Ward Avenue since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 84 among smaller avenues and parking ranks 49. A 49 on parking places Ward Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 81 and cleanliness at 72. The citywide frame puts transit at 58 and food nearby at 39. Ward Avenue ranks 67 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Ward Avenue is scored inside.

The strongest band-ranked measure on Ward Avenue is housing, at 87.

The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 77 on Ward Avenue.

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.

Nearest streets in Staten Island

Ward Avenue runs through Tompkinsville and West New Brighton, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.

Every scored street in Staten Island, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Brooklyn vs Staten Island: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).

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