1200 block of N 15th St

How the block compares

The typical home here is $326K — about 1.5× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19121 median of $167K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19121 and across Philadelphia.

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 345 reported crimes (107 violent) and 257 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

• $326K typical home, up +3979% since 2016
• Tax bill $48 to $972 a year, +31%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $13M assessed, $66,874/yr to the city, about $1,760 per home

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, 9 of 38 homes pay that full rate — and 29 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.

The starkest example: 1231 N 15th St is assessed at $770K but pays $2,154 a year — about 20% of the $10,771 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 +40.1% 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 $4079 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 36 arm's-length sales since 2002. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 20 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 38 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

1227 N 15th St

$669K · demolished in 2016 and rebuilt (2016).

Torn down & rebuilt

1237 N 15th St

$552K · demolished and rebuilt (2015).

Torn down & rebuilt

1240 N 15th St

$117K · demolished and rebuilt (2017), then sold for $90K in 2022.

New construction

1231 N 15th St

$770K · built new under a 2016 permit (tax-abated).

New construction

1251 N 15th St

$737K · Bought for $62K in 2014, built new under a 2020 permit (tax-abated).

New construction

1219 N 15th St

$717K · Bought for $34K in 2014, built new under a 2020 permit (tax-abated).

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.