Neighborhoods in Queens: The Complete List

There is no single official count, because "neighborhood" is a colloquial term. The city's own planning unit is the Neighborhood Tabulation Area (NTA), and Queens has 59 residential NTAs in the 2020 boundaries — the list in the second table on this page. DwellCheck publishes a page for 28 named Queens neighborhoods, some of which sit inside a larger NTA and some of which span more than one.

28 Queens neighborhoods have a DwellCheck page. 27 of them carry a published livability composite, and 27 have a full safety page with NYPD crime, shooting and arrest counts. Every residential NTA in the borough has computed crime and noise numbers, shown in the second table, whether or not a neighborhood page covers it.

The livability composite is DwellCheck's 0-10 score built from NYC Open Data (building violations, subway access, trees and noise, park proximity). "Complaints per 1,000 residents" is NYPD complaints inside the neighborhood over 12 months divided by its 2020 Census population. "Complaints per 300m" is the mean NYPD complaint count within 300 meters of 100 sampled points inside the NTA. "Noise median" is the median 311 noise complaint count within 100 meters of those points.

27 of Queens's 59 residential NTAs have no DwellCheck neighborhood page yet. Their crime and noise numbers are still computed and shown here; there is simply no deeper page to link to. The city's NTA names also merge several colloquial neighborhoods into one unit, so a name you are looking for may appear as part of a longer hyphenated NTA name.

Pick the dimension that actually decides it for you, then use the ranked page for that dimension: the Queens safest-neighborhoods page for NYPD crime data, the quietest-neighborhoods page for 311 noise, and the best-neighborhoods page for the Livability & Safety score, which blends two thirds of the livability composite with one third of the neighborhood's NYPD crime rate per resident and prints both components. This index is alphabetical, not a ranking. Then check the specific address, because every number on this page is a neighborhood average and buildings inside one neighborhood differ a lot.