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Who owns your block

1500 block of Arch St

A mixed-ownership block: 0% owner-occupied, 0% investor-held, with 2 open code violations.

The typical home here is up 12% since 2016, now about $27M.

Every parcel on the block, colored by who owns it. Tap a parcel for the owner and its city record.
The readAI analysis · from the figures below
  1. 01
    Safety

    This block records 348 crimes within 200 meters over 12 months, with 161 classified as violent.

  2. 02
    Ownership

    Zero percent owner-occupied and zero percent investor-registered status for all four homes on the block.

By the Numbers

Median value
$27M
$1.7M–$51M
ZIP median $403K
Price / sq ft
$153
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
119.6×
the city median
city $223K
Tax abatements
3 of 4
$1.5M/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
0%
0 of 4
city 41%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
2
L&I code
▲ block 25% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
1
1 home · ZBA & boards
block 25% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+0%
value · tax +$0
5 years
+6%
value · tax +$0
10 years
+12%
value · tax +$0

Assessed-value change for the typical home. Philadelphia taxes a flat 1.3998% of value, so the bill moves with it.

How the block compares

The typical home here is $27M — about 119.6× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19102 median of $403K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19102 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19102Philadelphia
Median home value$27M$403K$223K
Owner-occupied0%23%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 348 reported crimes (161 violent) and 175 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
348
161 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
175
23 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults136
All Other Offenses70
Thefts48
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief19
Fraud13
Aggravated Assault No Firearm12

Top 311 complaints

Information Request37
Traffic Signal Emergency21
Maintenance Complaint15
Graffiti Removal12
Salting12
Construction Complaints9

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 & Middle · K-8
Laura W Waring
1801 Green St · 170 students
High · 9-12
Benjamin HS Franklin
616 N 15th St · 975 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$25M$50M$27M2016: $24M2017: $24M2018: $42M2019: $25M2020: $25M2021: $25M2022: $25M2023: $27M2024: $27M2025: $27M2026: $27M2027: $27M2016202020232027

▲ +12% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

Not enough history yet.

3
3 properties 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 $1,481,449 a year off the tax roll. Read the tax figures with that in mind.

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +1% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 112 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $112 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+1%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+12%
since 2016
Net rental yield
0.1%
est., after tax carry
Total return
+1.1%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
-1.9%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-5.5 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.

Who owns it

Ownership of 4 parcels

Absentee individual: 3Vacant: 1 4parcels
  • Absentee individual 3
  • Vacant 1

Value distribution today

1 parcels1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$1.7M$45M+

The block's largest owner, Commonwealth Of Pa, carries 7 open violations across 49 properties it owns around the city.

OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Commonwealth Of Pa (individual)249$270Mphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 4 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$50M$100M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
1503A-11 ARCH ST built new under a 2010 permit (tax-abated). Absentee individual $51M 549,330 2014 0 abated
1503-11 ARCH ST built new under a 2019 permit (tax-abated). Absentee individual $8.4M 0 abated
1513 ARCH ST Vacant $1.7M 0
1515 ARCH ST built new under a 2024 permit (tax-abated). Absentee individual $45M 293,854 1965 0 abated2 viol

Neighborhood

Median income
$82K
household
Own vs. rent
2%
owner-occupied
Median age
28.9
residents
Median rent
$2K
gross monthly

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.