Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Willoughby Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 34, ranked against busy avenues. Access 84, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Willoughby Avenue in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (50) and tree cover (95). Cleanliness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Willoughby Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 373 of them, and cleanliness ranks 5 among busy avenues. Illegal parking accounts for 15% of the 2,417 reports on file here. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 320 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 289. Reports on Willoughby Avenue span 96 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 74 reports for every 100 homes on Willoughby Avenue.
The HPD file on Willoughby Avenue carries 327 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 10 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Willoughby Avenue, 197 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (159 violations) and doors (105). City housing records put 3,288 homes in 500 residential buildings on Willoughby Avenue, 276 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 20 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 6.6 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 90 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, Willoughby Avenue ranks 45 on parking and 25 on quietness. That 25 on quietness puts Willoughby Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Infrastructure ranks 38 on the same scale, with housing at 35. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 88 and transit at 78. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Willoughby Avenue, at 95. Willoughby Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 50.
Rent stabilization covers about 21% of the 3,288 homes on file, 668 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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Willoughby Avenue runs through Bed-Stuy, Bushwick and Clinton Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).