About NYC Block Score
NYC has no shortage of takes on what makes a neighborhood good or bad. Everyone has one. But opinions shift with trends, income, and personal taste. We wanted something different — a score rooted in what the city's own data actually shows.
Moving to New York — or within it — is overwhelming. You'll get a hundred opinions from a hundred different people, none of whom have the same priorities as you. "It's noisy." "There are no trees." "It's sketchy at night." But what does the data say?
NYC Open Data publishes millions of records: 311 complaints, crime reports, street tree censuses, active business licenses, park boundaries. All of it is public. We built NYC Block Score to turn that raw data into something readable — a single number, with the receipts to back it up.
The score isn't about what we think of your block. It's about what the city's own data says about it.
Every address gets scored 1–10 across five independent dimensions. Each one pulls directly from a live NYC Open Data dataset — no editorial judgment involved.
Counts 311 noise complaints filed within 300m in the past year. More complaints = lower score. The data comes from residents, not us.
Combines the NYC Street Tree Census (alive trees nearby) with park acreage within a quarter-mile radius using the city's parks dataset.
Counts active business licenses within 300m from the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs. More open businesses = more neighborhood life.
Counts NYPD complaint reports filed within 300m in the past year. Fewer complaints = higher score. Based on public NYPD records.
Counts active construction and plumbing complaints from 311 within 300m. Fewer complaints = higher score. All from NYC Open Data.
We want to be clear about what NYC Block Score doesn't measure — because context matters.
All data is pulled live from NYC Open Data via the Socrata API. Datasets used:
311 Service Requests · NYPD Complaint Data · NYC Street Tree Census · DCA Active Business Licenses · NYC Parks Properties
Geocoding is powered by the NYC GeoSearch API (NYC Planning Labs) with an OpenStreetMap Nominatim fallback.
Type any NYC address and see what the data says — takes about 5 seconds.