Westchester Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Westchester Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 17, ranked against busy avenues. Access 85, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Westchester Avenue in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (46) and tree cover (93). Street crime (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Westchester Avenue, with 552 reports. Across every category, 3,903 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water follows with 528 reports, and illegal parking with 450. The file runs across 99 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 3,807 homes on file, that is about 103 reports per 100 homes.
Westchester Avenue carries 297 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Westchester Avenue, 209 violations of it. Doors accounts for 160 more, and paint and lead for 155. PLUTO counts 127 residential buildings and 3,807 homes on Westchester Avenue, with 43 walk-ups and 11 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 30 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Westchester Avenue have injured 700 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 45 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 3. Westchester Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on cleanliness. The card also puts quietness at 26 and traffic safety at 6 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Westchester Avenue ranks 87 on transit and 76 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. Westchester Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Westchester Avenue is parking, at 46.
About 36% of the 3,807 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 1,382 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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Westchester Avenue runs through Soundview, Bruckner & Bronx River, Melrose and Pelham Bay, 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).