Living in Tremont: rent, commute and grades

The Bronx · Updated November 2026

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Rent in Tremont

$1,111 a month, estimated

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

C-Overall

Grades compare NYC neighborhoods with each other. How the grades work.

B-Walkability
The average home has 4.2 of 5 everyday needs within a 10-minute walk (grocery store, restaurant, cafe, subway station, park) and about 311 places to eat or shop.
B-Food and shopping
Within a 10-minute walk of the average home: about 45 places to eat, 13 kinds of cuisine, 4 large grocery stores and 210 open storefronts.
A+Parks and green space
100% of residents live within a 10-minute walk of a park of an acre or more, with about 745 acres of parkland within 1 km and about 585 street trees within 300 m of the average home.

B-Community
19% of households moved in since 2018, 4% are roommates sharing a home, 22% of residents are 22 to 34, and there are about 12 cafes and bars within a 10-minute walk of the average home.
C+Nightlife
About 9 bars, clubs and restaurants licensed to serve alcohol on site within a 10-minute walk of the average home.

FSafety
16.9 murders, robberies, felony assaults and burglaries were reported per 1,000 residents in 2025 (547 in all).
DQuiet
61 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.
FBuilding upkeep
91.6 serious housing code violations (class B or C) were issued in 2025 per 100 rented homes, and there were 17.8 heat or hot water complaints per 100 rented homes.

By subway or bus, arriving by 9:00 on a weekday:Under 30 min30 to 45 min45 to 60 minOver an hourTremont

East Tremont Avenue is the "downtown" of Bronx Community District 6. Once a shopping and theater street with a streetcar, it still has a busy mix of discount stores and restaurants, a 2010 city plan found. Source
West of Third Avenue, Tremont is a residential area of four- to six-story apartment buildings with several blocks of row houses. Source
Tremont was once the Bronx's civic center: Bronx Borough Hall stood in Tremont Park from 1897 until it was demolished in 1969, and it served as the main borough hall until 1935. Source
Tremont grew around the Third Avenue elevated line. Building the Cross Bronx Expressway, from 1948 to 1963, cut through the neighborhood and displaced thousands of residents, and the El lost its Manhattan service in 1955 and closed in 1973. Source
The New York Public Library's Tremont Branch, at East 176th Street and Washington Avenue, is a Carnegie library by Carrère and Hastings that opened in 1905 and became a city landmark in 2024. In the 1950s it was a leading branch for books and programs on Jewish culture and the Hebrew and Yiddish languages. Source
Tremont Park, 15 acres, sits in the neighborhood's south, and the 127.5-acre Crotona Park lies just beyond it. Source
Tremont has its own Metro-North station on East Tremont Avenue, with Harlem Line commuter trains south to Manhattan and north to Mount Vernon, White Plains and as far as Dutchess County. Source