1200 block of Fitzwater St

How the block compares

The typical home here is $316K — about 1.4× the citywide median home, and below the ZIP 19147 median of $461K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19147 and across Philadelphia.

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 101 reported crimes (19 violent) and 212 resident 311 requests to the city.

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.

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

• $316K typical home, up +50% since 2016
• Tax bill $500 to $3,893 a year, +21%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $30M assessed, $324,531/yr to the city, about $3,958 per home

Who really pays

Philadelphia charges every home the same 1.40% of its assessed value. Abatements and exemptions shrink what some homes are taxed on — here's this block:

• 1240r Fitzwater Stexemption0.00%$0/yr on $788K
• 1221 Fitzwater Sttax-abated new construction0.37%$4,207/yr on $1.1M
• 1223 Fitzwater Sttax-abated new construction0.37%$3,711/yr on $994K
• 1219 Fitzwater Sttax-abated new construction0.47%$5,268/yr on $1.1M
• 1213 Fitzwater Sttax-abated new construction0.67%$2,946/yr on $443K
• …and 31 more paying under the full rate — the gold-ringed bubbles in the makeup chart

The starkest example: 1219 Fitzwater St is assessed at $1.1M but pays $5,268 a year — about 33% of the $15,807 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 lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +3.8% 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 $150 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed 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 24 arm's-length sales since 2002. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 68 have not changed hands at all.

Who owns it

The mailing address is where the assessor sends the tax bill — for an LLC, often the closest public record gets to the person behind it. "Registry" searches the owner's name in state incorporation records (OpenCorporates).

House by house

All 82 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

Torn down & rebuilt

1219 Fitzwater St

$1.1M · demolished in 2016 and rebuilt (2016), then sold for $1.2M in 2021.

New construction

1221 Fitzwater St

$1.1M · Bought for $500K in 2015, built new under a 2016 permit (tax-abated), sold for $849K in 2017.

New construction

1223 Fitzwater St

$994K · Bought for $500K in 2015, built new under a 2016 permit (tax-abated), sold for $850K in 2017.

New construction

1227 Fitzwater St

$663K · Bought for $191K in 2013, built new under a 2013 permit, sold for $685K in 2022.

New construction

1236 Fitzwater St

$610K · Bought for $285K in 2011, built new under a 2011 permit, sold for $643K in 2022.

New construction

1213 Fitzwater St

$467K · built new under a 2023 permit (tax-abated).

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.