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Who owns your block

1000 block of W Somerset St

A mixed-ownership block: 13% owner-occupied, 0% investor-held, with 3 open code violations and 2 homes behind $8,054 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 128% since 2016, now about $51K.

Every parcel on the block, colored by who owns it. Tap a parcel for the owner and its city record.

By the Numbers

Median value
$51K
$22K–$119K
ZIP median $83K
Price / sq ft
$19
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
0.2×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$2K
typical · up to $2K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
8 of 15
$8K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
13%
2 of 15
city 41%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
3
L&I code
▲ block 7% · city 5%
Back taxes
$8K
2 of 15 behind
▲ block 13% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+134%
value · tax +$0
5 years
+144%
value · tax +$0
10 years
+128%
value · tax +$0

Assessed-value change for the typical home. Philadelphia taxes a flat 1.3998% of value, so the bill moves with it.

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 tax-abated new construction. Click a bubble for its report.

2027
  • Owner-occupied
  • Investor / LLC
  • Absentee
  • Vacant
  • Tax-abated
  • 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 $51K — about 0.2× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19133 median of $83K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19133 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19133Philadelphia
Median home value$51K$83K$223K
Owner-occupied7%18%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 159 reported crimes (66 violent) and 124 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
159
66 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
124
28 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults35
All Other Offenses28
Thefts18
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief16
Aggravated Assault No Firearm10
Aggravated Assault Firearm7

Top 311 complaints

Maintenance Complaint31
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection14
Illegal Dumping13
Street Defect11
License Complaint10
Construction Complaints8

Philadelphia Police incident reports and 311 service requests within 200m, trailing 12 months. Reported location, not necessarily where an incident occurred.

Schools

The public schools this block is zoned for — its official School District of Philadelphia catchments.

Elementary
Mastery Charter School At Clymer
Middle & High
Mastery Charter School At Gratz

Catchment assignments from the School District of Philadelphia via City of Philadelphia open data. Confirm with the District before enrollment decisions.

What it's worth, and where taxes are going

Median assessed value · 2016–2027

$0$50K$100K$51K2016: $23K2017: $23K2018: $21K2019: $21K2020: $21K2021: $21K2022: $21K2023: $21K2024: $21K2025: $22K2026: $22K2027: $51K2016202020232027

▲ +128% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

Not enough history yet.

8
8 properties on this block carry a tax abatement or major exemption. New construction and gut rehabs get the improvement value exempted for up to 10 years, so their tax bills sit far below their real value — block-wide, exemptions keep about $7,556 a year off the tax roll. Read the tax figures with that in mind.

Who really pays — each home's tax bill as a share of its value

Philadelphia charges every home the same 1.40% of its assessed value. On this block, 2 of 15 homes pay that full rate — and 13 pay less, because abatements and exemptions shrink the taxed value. Each dot is one home; the further left, the less of its value it pays. Hover a dot for the house.

1.40% — the full rate0%0.4%0.8%1.2%
home on this blocktax-abated
$0pays now $1,148at the full rate

The starkest example: 1011 W Somerset St is assessed at $82K but pays $0 a year — about 0% of the $1,148 it would owe at the full rate, because its new-construction value is abated for 10 years.

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has beaten the Philadelphia market, compounding +7.8% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9310025020162019202220252027This block 228 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $228 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced the market.

Annualized return
+7.8%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+128%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+7.8%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+4.8%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
+1.3 pts
market 6.5%/yr

Return is from assessed-value history (a proxy for market price, lumpy in reassessment years); rental yield is estimated from ACS area rents. Informational only, not investment advice.

Who owns it

Ownership of 15 parcels

Owner-occupied: 2Absentee individual: 8Vacant: 5 15parcels
  • Owner-occupied 2
  • Absentee individual 8
  • Vacant 5

Value distribution today

6 parcels1 parcels4 parcels1 parcels1 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$22K$115K+

No multi-home or corporate owners on this block — every home has its own owner.

House by house

All 15 homes on the block — value and 12-year trajectory, ownership, and the paper trail on the ones that were bought, built, torn down, or flipped. Sorted up the street; each links to its full city record — or download the roster (CSV).

Every house's assessed value, 2016–2027 — each line is one home

$0$100K$200K201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
1007 W SOMERSET ST Owner-occupied $119K 4/1 1,550 1915 0
1009 W SOMERSET ST Vacant $56K —/— 0
1010 W SOMERSET ST Vacant $54K —/— 0
1011 W SOMERSET ST Owner-occupied $82K 4/1 1,650 1915 0 abatedtax lien
1012 W SOMERSET ST Vacant $54K —/— 0
1013 W SOMERSET ST Absentee individual $115K 3/1 1,440 1915 0 3 viol
1014 W SOMERSET ST Vacant $51K —/— 0
1016 W SOMERSET ST Vacant $68K —/— 0 tax lien
1019 W SOMERSET ST Absentee individual $44K —/— 2,180 2009 0 abated
1021 W SOMERSET ST Absentee individual $22K —/— 1,165 2009 0 abated
1023 W SOMERSET ST Absentee individual $22K —/— 1,165 2009 0 abated
1025 W SOMERSET ST Absentee individual $22K —/— 1,165 2009 0 abated
1027 W SOMERSET ST Absentee individual $22K —/— 1,165 2009 0 abated
1029 W SOMERSET ST Absentee individual $22K —/— 1,165 2009 0 abated
1031 W SOMERSET ST Absentee individual $22K —/— 1,782 2009 0 abated

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.

Generated 2026-07-08 from public City of Philadelphia records  ·  Download this block's data (CSV)

Where this comes from

City datasets are fetched live from OpenDataPhilly (phl.carto.com) and cached briefly. AI-written passages are generated from these records only and rejected if they state a number the record doesn't hold.