Willis Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311 & City Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Willis Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 34, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Willis Avenue in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (65) and food nearby (65). Housing (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Willis Avenue, with 19 reports. The whole 311 file on Willis Avenue holds 86 reports, and illegal parking is 22% of it. In all, 16 distinct 311 categories are represented on Willis Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 210 reports for every 100 homes on Willis Avenue.
HPD has cited 15 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 41 homes in 17 residential buildings on Willis Avenue, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Willis Avenue holds about 2.4 homes.
Against smaller avenues, cleanliness comes in at 55, with parking at 23. Willis Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on parking. The card also puts quietness at 38 and traffic safety at 32 among smaller avenues. Transit ranks 61 and tree cover 0, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 65. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Willis Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 65.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 41 on Willis 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.
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Willis Avenue runs through Tompkinsville, 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).