Living in Cambria Heights: rent, commute and grades

Queens · Updated November 2026

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Rent in Cambria Heights

$781 a month, estimated

Type of homeA room in a 2-bedroom, shared by two

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Everyday life

  • FWalkability

    The average home has 2.8 of 5 everyday needs within a 10-minute walk (grocery store, restaurant, cafe, subway station, park) and about 32 places to eat or shop.

    Residents: A car is needed to get around. Grew up there, Feb 2024

  • FFood and shopping

    Within a 10-minute walk of the average home: about 8 places to eat, 5 kinds of cuisine, 0.9 large grocery stores and 18 open storefronts.

  • FParks and green space

    64% of residents live within a 10-minute walk of a park of an acre or more, with about 4 acres of parkland within 1 km and about 344 street trees within 300 m of the average home.

People

  • FCommunity

    12% of households moved in since 2018, 3% are roommates sharing a home, 15% of residents are 22 to 34, and there are about 2 cafes and bars within a 10-minute walk of the average home.

  • FNightlife

    About 1 bars, clubs and restaurants licensed to serve alcohol on site within a 10-minute walk of the average home.

Home and safety

  • ASafety

    2.8 murders, robberies, felony assaults and burglaries were reported per 1,000 residents in 2025 (55 in all).

  • AQuiet

    18 noise complaints to 311 per 1,000 residents in 2025, not counting helicopter complaints, and counting each address at most 12 days a year. That measures how often people complain, not how loud it is.

  • B-Building upkeep

    13.9 serious housing code violations (class B or C) were issued in 2025 per 100 rented homes, and there were 7.8 heat or hot water complaints per 100 rented homes.

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  • Older residents

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Getting around from Cambria Heights

Map of New York City neighborhoods shaded by travel time by subway or bus from Cambria Heights
By subway or bus, arriving by 9:00 on a weekday:Under 30 min30 to 45 min45 to 60 minOver an hourCambria Heights

What to know about Cambria Heights

  • Cambria Heights is a low-density area where one- and two-family detached houses make up 78.5 percent of the housing, with row houses and semi-detached homes scattered through its northern and western sections. Source
  • Linden Boulevard is the neighborhood's commercial street, lined with local services and convenience stores. Source
  • Cambria Heights was farmland in the old town of Jamaica and stayed rural into the 1920s, when its name came into wide use and a boom in middle-class house building began, helped by the Southern State Parkway, which extended east from here starting in 1927. Source
  • Two city historic districts, both designated in 2022, protect rows of Storybook-style houses from 1931. The larger, on 227th Street between 116th Avenue and Linden Boulevard, has 50 of them; the other is on 222nd Street. Source
  • Cambria Heights is one of the city's major Haitian American communities and draws families from Guyana, Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago. It changed from almost entirely white to a mostly Black community starting in the 1960s. Source
  • In 2005 the city rezoned almost 200 blocks of Cambria Heights to keep new building to one- and two-family homes, after a study requested by the Cambria Heights Civic Association, the community board and local officials. Source

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