Staten Island noise and liveability

New York City. Aircraft and road noise, affordability, crime, transport, air quality and flood risk, from published sources.

Staten Island · one of New York's 5 boroughs

Flood risk is high and transport access is poor; air quality is good and road noise is low.

Worth a look Flood risk, worth a look Transport, worth a look

Good here Road noise, good here Air quality, good here

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7.1Sky Score out of 10; on every score here, 10 is best

Quiet skies: 7.5 / 10
Affordability: 7.7 / 10Scored among the 5 areas of New York City alone, never with another city's prices: not comparable with UK scores - 2 of 5 here by price, cheapest first
Growth: 7.7 / 10Price trend in cash terms, scaled among the 5 areas of this city, which is the whole of its currency pool - 4 of 5 here by trend, fastest-rising first
Liveability: 6.0 / 10

Noise and planes

Aircraft noise is low-moderate

Road noise is low

Air and flood

Air quality is good

Flood risk is high

Living here

Recorded crime

52 recorded offences per 1,000 residents a year.

Transport access is poor

Healthcare access is moderate

Property

Price trend

+3.0% year on year

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Where these numbers come from

Borough metadata: curated from public New York City sources; Crime: NYPD CompStat-derived offence rates per 1,000, against New York City population denominators; Prices: curated New York borough median sale prices, in USD; Aviation noise context: ESTIMATED from the FAA routes of JFK, LaGuardia, Newark and Teterboro, fitted to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey noise-monitor readings for January-July 2026; NOT a measurement at this address; Borough aircraft band: the same estimate averaged over residents by 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Area, weighted by US Census Bureau ACS 2020-2024 population (public domain); Licence note: Open Government Licence v3.0 covers UK Crown copyright and does NOT apply to any data in this response; Flight routes: FAA Coded Instrument Flight Procedures, derived by Sky Score for the aircraft noise estimate; supplied "as is", without warranty, and not for navigation; Runway use: counted by Sky Score from aircraft positions via adsb.lol (ODbL 1.0), 2026-01-01 to 2026-07-30; the counts are offered under the ODbL

Methodology version 5.7. Full method: the methodology (and the API reference). Figures are for the whole borough; a single address can differ, and the map shows postcode-level detail.