Philadelphia property report
0 block of Sparks St
A block with a strong owner-occupancy signal: 70% of homes have a Homestead field or matching Philadelphia tax-mailing address, with 5 open code violations.
The median home assessment is up 82% from 2016 through the 2026 billed-year roll, ending near $179K. The median assessment-based tax estimate changed about 6% a year over its recorded billed-year series and the increases are speeding up.
- Owner-occupancy signal
- Entity-held
- Individual · other/unknown mail
- Vacant
- Has violations
By the Numbers
Assessment change through 2026
Median assessed-home-value change through the billed-year roll. Tax deltas use the same endpoint and each year’s taxable-assessment median; exemptions can make the tax path differ from the full assessed-value path.
The makeup of the block
Every home, plotted by size and assessed value — press play and watch the block reprice from 2016 to 2027. One bubble per house (area = lot size), colored by who owns it; a gold ring marks a material assessment exemption whose legal basis is not established by the roll. Click a bubble for its report.
- Owner-occupancy signal
- Entity-held
- Individual, other/unknown mail
- Vacant
- Assessment exemption
- Bubble = lot size
- → bigger interior · ↑ higher value
Assessed values from the city's year-by-year assessment record — a proxy for price, lumpy in reassessment years.
How the block compares
The typical home here is $178K — about 0.8× the citywide median home, and above the ZIP 19120 median of $171K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19120 and across Philadelphia.
| This block | ZIP 19120 | Philadelphia | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $178K | $171K | $230K |
| Homes with Homestead exemption | 30% | 51% | 48% |
Safety & quality of life
Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 53 police incident reports, about 4 a month, and 161 resident 311 requests to the city. These are raw nearby counts, not population-adjusted rates. A busy commercial corridor can record more activity than a residential block.
Most reported crimes
Top 311 complaints
Philadelphia Police incident reports and 311 service requests within 200m, trailing 12 months. The breakdown preserves the source's reported offense types. Reported location is not necessarily where an incident occurred.
Schools
The public schools this block is zoned for — its official School District of Philadelphia catchments.
Catchment assignments from the School District of Philadelphia via City of Philadelphia open data. Confirm with the District before enrollment decisions.
Assessment trend
The median home assessment on this block has tracked Philadelphia's residential assessment trend, changing +6.2% a year against the city's 6.5%.
Indexed assessment change · this block vs. Philadelphia residential assessments
Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $182 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.
This compares City assessments, not sale prices or investment returns. Reassessment years are lumpy, and construction, demolition, subdivision, or classification changes can move a block median.
How often it changes hands
The fetched deed history contains 10 non-nominal recorded transfers for homes on this block since 2000. The median home has 1 such transfer in that window, while 2 have none. Consideration above $100 is not proof of an arm's-length market sale.
Non-nominal home deed transfers · consideration & date
Who owns it
Ownership of 12 parcels
- Owner-occupancy signal 7
- Individual, other or unknown mailing address 5
Value distribution · 2027 published roll
No multi-home or corporate owners on this block; every home has its own owner.
Parcel by parcel
All 12 parcels on the block, including 10 OPA single- or multi-family homes. Values are assessments, ownership labels are OPA-record signals, and each row links to its property report and official sources. Download the roster (CSV).
Every house's assessed value, 2016–2027 — each line is one home; final year is the latest published roll
| Address | Ownership signal | Assessment & trend | Bd/Ba | Sq ft | Built | Non-nominal transfers | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88 SPARKS ST Mixed-use Permit on record$105K transfer recorded in 2005. Addition and/or Alteration permit recorded in 2023. | Individual, other or unknown mailing address | $233K20162027 | —/— | 1,224 | 1928 | 3 | licensed rental |
| 89 SPARKS ST Apartment building Permit on recordElectrical permit recorded in 2011. | Individual, other or unknown mailing address | $158K20162027 | —/— | 1,530 | 1928 | 1 | licensed rental |
| 90 SPARKS ST Historyrecorded transfer $105K (2016); L&I violation (2022); L&I: 1 failed, 1 passed (2022); L&I violation (2025); L&I: 1 failed, 1 passed (2025). | Owner-occupancy signal | $174K20162027 | 3/1 | 1,224 | 1928 | 1 | |
| 91 SPARKS ST Apartment building HistoryL&I violation (2022); L&I: 1 failed, 1 passed (2022); 5 L&I violations (2023); Inspection failed (2023); Inspection failed ×3 (2024). | Owner-occupancy signal | $211K20162027 | —/— | 1,224 | 1928 | 0 | 5 viol |
| 92 SPARKS ST | Owner-occupancy signal | $183K20162027 | 3/1 | 1,224 | 1928 | 1 | |
| 93 SPARKS ST Recorded transfers2 non-nominal transfers recorded: $70K in 2006 → $110K in 2010 (+57% between recorded amounts). | Owner-occupancy signal | $174K20162027 | 3/1 | 1,224 | 1928 | 2 | |
| 94 SPARKS ST Historyrecorded transfer $56K (2000); 3 L&I violations (2022); Inspection failed (2022); 3 L&I violations (2023); L&I: 2 failed, 1 passed (2023); L&I violation (2024); L&I: 1 failed, 2 passed (2024); L&I violation (2025); Inspection failed ×2 (2025). | Individual, other or unknown mailing address | $183K20162027 | 3/1 | 1,224 | 1928 | 1 | licensed rental |
| 95 SPARKS ST | Owner-occupancy signal | $174K20162027 | 3/1 | 1,224 | 1928 | 0 | |
| 96 SPARKS ST Permit between transfers$100K transfer in 2017; alterations permit in 2022; $166K transfer in 2023 (+66% between recorded amounts). | Owner-occupancy signal | $174K20162027 | 3/1 | 1,224 | 1928 | 2 | |
| 97 SPARKS ST | Owner-occupancy signal | $174K20162027 | 3/1 | 1,224 | 1928 | 1 | |
| 98 SPARKS ST HistoryL&I violation (2016); Inspection failed ×3 (2016); recorded transfer $66K (2018); L&I violation (2023); L&I: 1 failed, 1 passed (2023); L&I violation (2025); L&I: 1 failed, 1 passed (2025). | Individual, other or unknown mailing address | $183K20162027 | 3/1 | 1,224 | 1928 | 1 | |
| 99 SPARKS ST Apartment building Historyrecorded transfer $117K (2005); 2 L&I violations (2019). | Individual, other or unknown mailing address | $211K20162027 | 2/2 | 1,224 | 1928 | 1 | licensed rental |
Neighborhood
US Census 2023 ACS 5-year estimates for the surrounding block group, not a measurement of this hundred-block or its current residents.
Generated 2026-07-11 from public City of Philadelphia records · Download this block's data (CSV)