Who owns your block
1300 block of Van Kirk St
A mostly owner-occupied block: 78% of homes are lived in by their owners.
The typical home here is up 96% since 2016, now about $209K. Property taxes are climbing about 3% a year and the increases are speeding up.
- Owner-occupied
- Investor / LLC
- Absentee
- Vacant
- Has violations
By the Numbers
How fast it's moving
Assessed-value change for the typical home. Philadelphia taxes a flat 1.3998% of value, so the bill moves with it.
The makeup of the block
Every home, plotted by size and assessed value — press play and watch the block reprice from 2016 to 2027. One bubble per house (area = lot size), colored by who owns it; a gold ring marks tax-abated new construction. Click a bubble for its report.
- Owner-occupied
- Investor / LLC
- Absentee
- Vacant
- Tax-abated
- Bubble = lot size
- → bigger interior · ↑ higher value
Assessed values from the city's year-by-year assessment record — a proxy for price, lumpy in reassessment years.
How the block compares
The typical home here is $209K — about 0.9× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19149 median of $234K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19149 and across Philadelphia.
| This block | ZIP 19149 | Philadelphia | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $209K | $234K | $223K |
| Owner-occupied | 63% | 41% | 41% |
Safety & quality of life
Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 157 reported crimes (35 violent) and 105 resident 311 requests to the city.
Most reported crimes
Top 311 complaints
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
- $209K typical home, up +96% since 2016
- Tax bill $1,303 to $1,717 a year, +3%/yr and compounding
- Whole block: $6.8M assessed, $66,973/yr to the city, about $2,093 per home
Median assessed value · 2016–2027
▲ +96% since 2016
Estimated property tax · per home, per year
▲ +32% since 2016 · ~+3%/yr
Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home
1348 Van Kirk St is assessed at $230K but pays $2,347 a year — about 73% of the $3,215 it would owe at the statutory rate, because its new-construction value is abated.
The block as an asset
Read like a financial asset, this block has tracked the Philadelphia market, compounding +6.3% 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 $196 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 41 arm's-length sales since 1999. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 8 have not changed hands at all.
Every recorded sale · price & date
Who owns it
Ownership of 32 parcels
- Owner-occupied 25
- Investor / LLC 1
- Absentee individual 6
Value distribution today
The block's largest owner, Eng Associates Llc, carries 7 open violations across 6 properties it owns around the city.
| Owner | On block | Owns citywide | Portfolio value | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eng Associates Llc | 1 | 6 | $1.2M | phila.gov ↗ |
House by house
All 32 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
| Address | Ownership | Value & trend | Bd/Ba | Sq ft | Built | Sales | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1300 VAN KIRK ST | Owner-occupied | $218K | 3/1 | 1,344 | 1950 | 1 | |
| 1302 VAN KIRK ST | Owner-occupied | $206K | 3/1 | 1,276 | 1950 | 0 | |
| 1304 VAN KIRK ST | Owner-occupied | $209K | 3/1 | 1,276 | 1950 | 1 | |
| 1306 VAN KIRK ST | Owner-occupied | $209K | 3/1 | 1,276 | 1950 | 1 | |
| 1308 VAN KIRK ST Frequently tradedTraded 3×: $41K in 2001 → $61K in 2014 (+49%). | Absentee individual | $206K | 3/1 | 1,276 | 1950 | 3 | |
| 1310 VAN KIRK ST | Owner-occupied | $206K | 3/1 | 1,276 | 1950 | 1 | |
| 1312 VAN KIRK ST | Owner-occupied | $209K | 3/1 | 1,276 | 1950 | 0 | |
| 1314 VAN KIRK ST | Owner-occupied | $209K | 3/1 | 1,276 | 1950 | 1 | |
| 1316 VAN KIRK ST | Owner-occupied | $209K | 3/1 | 1,276 | 1950 | 1 | |
| 1318 VAN KIRK ST | Absentee individual | $209K | 3/1 | 1,276 | 1950 | 1 | |
| 1320 VAN KIRK ST Frequently tradedTraded 3×: $46K in 2001 → $68K in 2010 (+47%). | Owner-occupied | $206K | 3/1 | 1,276 | 1950 | 3 | |
| 1322 VAN KIRK ST Frequently tradedTraded 3×: $132K in 2006 → $110K in 2013 (-17%). | Owner-occupied | $209K | 3/1 | 1,276 | 1950 | 3 | |
| 1324 VAN KIRK ST | Owner-occupied | $209K | 3/1 | 1,276 | 1950 | 0 | |
| 1326 VAN KIRK ST | Owner-occupied | $206K | 3/1 | 1,276 | 1950 | 0 | rented |
| 1328 VAN KIRK ST | Absentee individual | $209K | 3/1 | 1,276 | 1950 | 1 | |
| 1330 VAN KIRK ST | Owner-occupied | $209K | 3/1 | 1,276 | 1950 | 1 | |
| 1332 VAN KIRK ST | Owner-occupied | $209K | 3/1 | 1,276 | 1950 | 1 | |
| 1334 VAN KIRK ST TradedTraded 2×: $78K in 2003 → $145K in 2021 (+86%). | Absentee individual | $212K | 2/2 | 1,276 | 1950 | 2 | rented |
| 1336 VAN KIRK ST | Owner-occupied | $206K | 3/1 | 1,276 | 1950 | 1 | |
| 1338 VAN KIRK ST TradedTraded 2×: $45K in 2002 → $71K in 2015 (+58%). | Investor / LLC | $205K | —/— | 1,276 | 1920 | 2 | rented |
| 1340 VAN KIRK ST Frequently tradedTraded 4×: $40K in 2004 → $220K in 2021 (+450%). | Owner-occupied | $266K | 3/2 | 1,276 | 1950 | 4 | |
| 1342 VAN KIRK ST | Owner-occupied | $206K | 3/1 | 1,276 | 1950 | 0 | |
| 1344 VAN KIRK ST TradedTraded 2×: $90K in 2005 → $217K in 2025 (+141%). | Owner-occupied | $206K | 3/2 | 1,276 | 1925 | 2 | |
| 1346 VAN KIRK ST | Absentee individual | $203K | 3/1 | 1,276 | 1950 | 0 | rented |
| 1348 VAN KIRK ST New constructionBought for $220K in 2008, built new (tax-abated), sold for $360K in 2025. | Absentee individual | $230K | 4/1 | 2,144 | 1945 | 3 | abated |
| 1351 VAN KIRK ST TradedTraded 2×: $159K in 2005 → $170K in 2018 (+7%). | Owner-occupied | $224K | 3/2 | 1,508 | 1950 | 2 | |
| 1353 VAN KIRK ST | Owner-occupied | $222K | 4/1 | 1,508 | 1950 | 0 | |
| 1355 VAN KIRK ST | Owner-occupied | $222K | 4/1 | 1,504 | 1950 | 1 | |
| 1357 VAN KIRK ST | Owner-occupied | $222K | 4/1 | 1,508 | 1950 | 0 | |
| 1359 VAN KIRK ST | Owner-occupied | $222K | 4/1 | 1,508 | 1950 | 1 | |
| 1361 VAN KIRK ST | Owner-occupied | $230K | 4/1 | 1,508 | 1950 | 1 | |
| 1363 VAN KIRK ST Frequently tradedTraded 3×: $55K in 2015 → $90K in 2022 (+64%). | Owner-occupied | $223K | 4/1 | 1,508 | 1950 | 3 |
Neighborhood
Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.
Generated 2026-07-08 from public City of Philadelphia records · Download this block's data (CSV)