Who owns your block
1200 block of E Venango St
A mixed-ownership block: 39% owner-occupied, 21% investor-held, with 1 open code violation and 2 homes behind $1,142 on taxes.
The typical home here is up 144% since 2016, now about $95K. Property taxes are climbing about 4% a year though the increases have eased lately.
- Owner-occupied
- Investor / LLC
- Absentee
- Vacant
- Has violations
By the Numbers
How fast it's moving
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.
- 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 $95K — about 0.4× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19134 median of $113K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19134 and across Philadelphia.
| This block | ZIP 19134 | Philadelphia | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $95K | $113K | $223K |
| Owner-occupied | 18% | 29% | 41% |
Safety & quality of life
Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 168 reported crimes (38 violent) and 83 resident 311 requests to the city.
Most reported crimes
Top 311 complaints
Philadelphia Police incident reports and 311 service requests within 200m, trailing 12 months. Reported location, not necessarily where an incident occurred.
What it's worth, and where taxes are going
- $95K typical home, up +144% since 2016
- Tax bill $357 to $556 a year, +4%/yr and compounding
- Whole block: $2.8M assessed, $26,092/yr to the city, about $932 per home
Median assessed value · 2016–2027
▲ +144% since 2016
Estimated property tax · per home, per year
▲ +56% since 2016 · ~+4%/yr
Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home
1222 E Venango St is assessed at $109K but pays $130 a year — about 8% of the $1,530 it would owe at the statutory rate, because its new-construction value is abated.
The block as an asset
Read like a financial asset, this block has beaten the Philadelphia market, compounding +8.4% a year against the city's 6.5%.
Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market
Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $244 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced the market.
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.
How often it changes hands
This block has recorded 31 arm's-length sales since 2000. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 11 have not changed hands at all.
Every recorded sale · price & date
Who owns it
Ownership of 28 parcels
- Owner-occupied 9
- Investor / LLC 2
- Absentee individual 7
- Vacant 10
Value distribution today
The block's largest owner, Phila Electric Co, carries 7 open violations across 103 properties it owns around the city.
| Owner | On block | Owns citywide | Portfolio value | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phila Electric Co | 1 | 103 | $105M | phila.gov ↗ |
| 1229-33 E Venango St Llc | 3 | 3 | $212K | phila.gov ↗ |
| 1241-43 Venango St Llc | 1 | 1 | $60K | phila.gov ↗ |
| 1245 E Venango St Llc | 1 | 1 | $90K | phila.gov ↗ |
House by house
All 28 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
Worth a look
| Address | Ownership | Value & trend | Bd/Ba | Sq ft | Built | Sales | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1200-04 E VENANGO ST TradedTraded 2×: $120K in 2007 → $25K in 2011 (-79%). | Absentee individual | $46K | —/— | 660 | 1930 | 2 | 1 viol |
| 1206-10 E VENANGO ST TradedTraded 2×: $120K in 2007 → $7K in 2014 (-94%). | Absentee individual | $238K | —/— | 3,504 | 1948 | 2 | |
| 1209 E VENANGO ST TradedTraded 2×: $5K in 2010 → $8K in 2011 (+60%). | Absentee individual | $8K | —/— | 462 | 1944 | 2 | |
| 1211 E VENANGO ST Improved | Vacant | $27K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 1212 E VENANGO ST TradedTraded 2×: $36K in 2000 → $40K in 2025 (+13%). | Owner-occupied | $145K | —/— | 2,120 | 1920 | 2 | |
| 1213 E VENANGO ST Improved | Vacant | $27K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 1214 E VENANGO ST Historysold $8K (2014); Appeal dismissed (2019). | Vacant | $38K | —/— | — | — | 1 | |
| 1215 E VENANGO ST Improved | Vacant | $27K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 1216 E VENANGO ST TradedTraded 2×: $7K in 2014 → $100K in 2022 (+1415%). | Absentee individual | $101K | 3/1 | 880 | 1920 | 2 | |
| 1217-19 E VENANGO ST | Vacant | $394K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 1218 E VENANGO ST Frequently tradedTraded 3×: $79K in 2000 → $225K in 2024 (+187%). | Owner-occupied | $219K | 4/2 | 1,000 | 1920 | 3 | tax lien |
| 1220 E VENANGO ST | Absentee individual | $36K | —/— | 720 | 1930 | 0 | |
| 1221 E VENANGO ST New constructionbuilt new (tax-abated), sold for $77K in 2000. | Owner-occupied | $105K | —/— | 952 | 1920 | 1 | abated |
| 1222 E VENANGO ST New constructionbuilt new (tax-abated), sold for $30K in 2021. | Owner-occupied | $109K | —/— | 1,008 | 1920 | 1 | abated |
| 1223 E VENANGO ST | Vacant | $40K | —/— | — | — | 1 | |
| 1224 E VENANGO ST Frequently tradedTraded 3×: $80K in 2000 → $30K in 2024 (-63%). | Owner-occupied | $109K | —/— | 1,008 | 1920 | 3 | tax lien |
| 1225 E VENANGO ST Frequently tradedTraded 5×: $23K in 2003 → $30K in 2016 (+30%). | Absentee individual | $175K | 5/2 | 1,260 | 1920 | 5 | rented |
| 1226 E VENANGO ST | Vacant | $30K | —/— | — | — | 1 | |
| 1227 E VENANGO ST TradedTraded 2×: $23K in 2010 → $9K in 2019 (-61%). | Owner-occupied | $107K | —/— | 1,008 | 1920 | 2 | |
| 1229 E VENANGO ST | Vacant | $40K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 1231 E VENANGO ST | Vacant | $40K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 1232 E VENANGO ST | Owner-occupied | $19K | —/— | 640 | 1946 | 0 | |
| 1233 E VENANGO ST | Investor / LLC | $133K | 4/1 | 1,632 | 1965 | 1 | rented |
| 1235 E VENANGO ST | Owner-occupied | $137K | —/— | 1,572 | 1920 | 0 | |
| 1237 E VENANGO ST | Owner-occupied | $130K | 4/1 | 1,664 | 1920 | 0 | |
| 1239 E VENANGO ST | Absentee individual | $130K | 4/1 | 1,664 | 1920 | 1 | rented |
| 1241-43 E VENANGO ST | Investor / LLC | $60K | —/— | 557 | 1925 | 0 | |
| 1245 E VENANGO ST | Vacant | $90K | —/— | — | — | 1 |
Neighborhood
Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.
Generated 2026-07-08 from public City of Philadelphia records · Download this block's data (CSV)