1200 block of S Bucknell St

How the block compares

The typical home here is $211K — about 0.9× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19146 median of $364K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19146 and across Philadelphia.

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 129 reported crimes (24 violent) and 293 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

• $211K typical home, up +126% since 2016
• Tax bill $927 to $2,536 a year, +10%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $20M assessed, $189,271/yr to the city, about $2,427 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, 38 of 78 homes pay that full rate — and 40 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: 1235 S Bucknell St is assessed at $476K but pays $1,333 a year — about 20% of the $6,666 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 +7.7% 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 $226 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 134 arm's-length sales since 2001. The typical home has sold 2 times in that window, while 26 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 78 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

1218 S Bucknell St

$458K · demolished in 2018 and rebuilt (2017), then sold for $480K in 2022.

Torn down & rebuilt

1273 S Bucknell St

$429K · Old house bought for $25K in 2015, demolished and rebuilt (2016), then sold for $455K in 2018.

Torn down & rebuilt

1203 S Bucknell St

$367K · Old house bought for $30K in 2014, demolished in 2009 and rebuilt (2015).

Torn down & rebuilt

1238 S Bucknell St

$88K · demolished in 2025 and rebuilt (2021), then sold for $149K in 2020.

New construction

1200 S Bucknell St

$521K · Bought for $36K in 2018, built new under a 2019 permit.

New construction

1235 S Bucknell St

$476K · Bought for $9K in 2015, built new under a 2017 permit (tax-abated), sold for $403K in 2024.

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.