1200 block of N Alden St

How the block compares

The typical home here is $119K — about 0.5× the citywide median home, and below the ZIP 19131 median of $156K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19131 and across Philadelphia.

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 100 reported crimes (47 violent) and 219 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

• $119K typical home, up +88% since 2016
• Tax bill $682 to $1,103 a year, +4%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $6.2M assessed, $57,047/yr to the city, about $1,056 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:

• 1222 N Alden Sttax-abated new construction0.21%$245/yr on $118K
• 1230 N Alden Sttax-abated new construction0.21%$245/yr on $118K
• 1236 N Alden Sttax-abated new construction0.21%$245/yr on $118K
• 1240 N Alden Sttax-abated new construction0.21%$245/yr on $118K
• 1252 N Alden Sttax-abated new construction0.21%$245/yr on $118K
• …and 16 more paying under the full rate — the gold-ringed bubbles in the makeup chart

The starkest example: 1244 N Alden St is assessed at $153K but pays $1,068 a year — about 50% of the $2,147 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 +5.9% 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 $188 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 64 arm's-length sales since 1970. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 23 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 54 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

New construction

1244 N Alden St

$153K · built new under a 2026 permit (tax-abated), sold for $5K in 2010.

New construction

1217 N Alden St

$119K · built new under a 2007 permit (tax-abated), sold for $7K in 2002.

New construction

1223 N Alden St

$119K · Bought for $25K in 2001, built new (tax-abated), sold for $59K in 2016.

New construction

1237 N Alden St

$119K · built new (tax-abated).

New construction

1230 N Alden St

$118K · built new under a 2017 permit (tax-abated).

New construction

1236 N Alden St

$118K · Bought for $29K in 2010, built new (tax-abated), sold for $60K in 2015.

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.