Wortman Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Wortman Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against busy avenues. Access 47, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Wortman Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (94) and tree cover (77). Traffic safety (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Wortman Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 95 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 15 among busy avenues. Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Wortman Avenue, with 142 reports. Across every category, 427 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 33% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water follows with 92 reports, and elevator with 49. In all, 60 distinct 311 categories are represented on Wortman Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 38 reports for every 100 homes on Wortman Avenue.
Wortman Avenue carries 75 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is doors, with 57 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (49 violations) and pests (34). 69 residential buildings on Wortman Avenue hold the 1,126 homes on file, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 16 homes each.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 65, with quietness at 37. Wortman Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on quietness. Infrastructure ranks 61 on the same scale, with housing at 51. Transit ranks 40 and food nearby 39, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 77. Wortman Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 94.
Of the 1,126 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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 Brooklyn
- Woodpoint Road, Brooklyn
- Woodruff Avenue, Brooklyn
- Woodside Avenue, Brooklyn
- Wyckoff Avenue, Brooklyn
- Wyckoff Street, Brooklyn
- Wyona Street, Brooklyn
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).