1200 block of N 27th St

How the block compares

The typical home here is $372K — about 1.7× 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: 163 reported crimes (36 violent) and 322 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

• $372K typical home, up +2321% since 2016
• Tax bill $46 to $1,792 a year, +40%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $16M assessed, $64,198/yr to the city, about $1,735 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, 2 of 37 homes pay that full rate — and 35 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: 1247 N 27th St is assessed at $1.1M but pays $2,956 a year — about 20% of the $14,782 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 +33.6% 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 $2421 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 10 arm's-length sales since 2016. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 31 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 37 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

1221-23 N 27th St

$924K · Old house bought for $70K in 2016, demolished in 2016 and rebuilt (2016).

Torn down & rebuilt

1216 N 27th St

$515K · Old house bought for $180K in 2017, demolished in 2016 and rebuilt (2018), then sold for $588K in 2024.

Torn down & rebuilt

1218 N 27th St

$515K · Old house bought for $180K in 2017, demolished in 2016 and rebuilt (2018), then sold for $500K in 2019.

Torn down & rebuilt

1222 N 27th St

$515K · Old house bought for $180K in 2017, demolished in 2018 and rebuilt (2018), then sold for $500K in 2019.

New construction

1247 N 27th St

$1.1M · built new under a 2017 permit (tax-abated).

New construction

1225-27 N 27th St

$924K · built new under a 2016 permit (tax-abated).

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.