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Who owns your block

1300 block of W Spencer St

A mixed-ownership block: 36% owner-occupied, 9% investor-held, with 1 home behind $40,690 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 51% since 2016, now about $176K. Property taxes are climbing about 2% a year though the increases have eased lately.

Every parcel on the block, colored by who owns it. Tap a parcel for the owner and its city record.

By the Numbers

Median value
$176K
$65K–$233K
ZIP median $176K
Price / sq ft
$136
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
0.8×
the city median
city $223K
Recent sale
$98K
1 sold in 2yr
assessed $176K
Tax / yr
$1K
typical · up to $3K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
1 of 11
$7K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
36%
4 of 11
city 41%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$41K
1 of 11 behind
▼ block 9% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
-12%
value · tax −$367
5 years
+47%
value · tax −$89
10 years
+51%
value · tax +$280

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.

2027
  • 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 $176K — about 0.8× the citywide median, and in line with the ZIP 19141 median of $176K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19141 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19141Philadelphia
Median home value$176K$176K$223K
Owner-occupied36%48%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 151 reported crimes (50 violent) and 101 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
151
50 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
101
22 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults40
All Other Offenses31
Thefts26
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief16
Fraud9
Theft from Vehicle7

Top 311 complaints

Maintenance Complaint28
Abandoned Vehicle13
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection10
Salting10
Illegal Dumping5
License Complaint4

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.

Elementary · K-5
Julia Ward Howe
5800 N 13th St · 225 students
Middle · 6-8
General Louis Wagner
1701 Chelten Ave · 294 students
High · 9-12
Martin Luther King
6100 Stenton Ave · 604 students

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

Median assessed value · 2016–2027

$0$125K$250K$176K2016: $117K2017: $117K2018: $117K2019: $119K2020: $119K2021: $119K2022: $119K2023: $153K2024: $153K2025: $201K2026: $201K2027: $176K2016202020232027

▲ +51% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$1,000$2,000$1,4982016: $1,2182017: $1,2182018: $1,5012019: $1,2182020: $1,2182021: $1,2182022: $1,5872023: $1,4712024: $1,4712025: $1,8652026: $1,8652027: $1,4982016202020232027

▲ +23% since 2016 · ~+2%/yr

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1 property on this block carry a tax abatement or major exemption. New construction and gut rehabs get the improvement value exempted for up to 10 years, so their tax bills sit far below their real value — block-wide, exemptions keep about $6,758 a year off the tax roll. Read the tax figures with that in mind.

Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home

1.40% — the statutory rate0%0.4%0.8%1.2%
$1,172pays now $2,331at the full rate

1352 W Spencer Ave is assessed at $167K but pays $1,172 a year — about 50% of the $2,331 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 lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +3.8% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 151 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $151 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+3.8%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+51%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+3.8%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+0.8%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-2.7 pts
market 6.5%/yr

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 5 arm's-length sales since 2017. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 6 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$125K$250K2018202020222024
5arm's-length sales since 2017
0times the typical home has sold
1most sales for a single property
6homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 11 parcels

Owner-occupied: 4Investor / LLC: 1Absentee individual: 5Vacant: 1 11parcels
  • Owner-occupied 4
  • Investor / LLC 1
  • Absentee individual 5
  • Vacant 1

Value distribution today

1 parcels0 parcels1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels4 parcels5 parcels
$65K$202K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Damaar 1 Llc11$107Kphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 11 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

$0$125K$250K201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
1324 W SPENCER AVE Vacant $65K —/— 0 tax lien
1330 W SPENCER AVE Absentee individual $202K 4/1 1,836 1940 0
1334 W SPENCER AVE Owner-occupied $202K 4/1 1,836 1940 1
1340 W SPENCER AVE Owner-occupied $233K —/— 1,563 1940 1
1342 W SPENCER AVE Absentee individual $176K —/— 1,320 1940 1
1346 W SPENCER AVE Investor / LLC $107K —/— 1,140 1940 1
1348 W SPENCER AVE Owner-occupied $169K —/— 1,216 1940 0
1352 W SPENCER AVE Absentee individual $167K —/— 1,260 1940 0 abated
1358 W SPENCER AVE Owner-occupied $197K —/— 1,344 1940 0
1364 W SPENCER AVE Absentee individual $189K —/— 1,260 1940 1
1368 W SPENCER AVE Absentee individual $172K —/— 1,260 1940 0

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.

Generated 2026-07-08 from public City of Philadelphia records  ·  Download this block's data (CSV)

Where this comes from

City datasets are fetched live from OpenDataPhilly (phl.carto.com) and cached briefly. AI-written passages are generated from these records only and rejected if they state a number the record doesn't hold.