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Who owns your block

1600 block of E Tulpehocken St

A mostly owner-occupied block: 94% of homes are lived in by their owners, with 10 open code violations and 4 homes behind $38,032 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 78% since 2016, now about $207K. Property taxes are climbing about 2% a year and the increases are speeding up.

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
$207K
$204K–$307K
ZIP median $187K
Price / sq ft
$169
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
0.9×
the city median
city $223K
Recent sale
$200K
1 sold in 2yr
assessed $207K
Tax / yr
$2K
typical · up to $4K
city ≈$3K/yr
Median built
1945
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
94%
51 of 54
city 41%
Rentals
6%
3 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
10
L&I code
▲ block 6% · city 5%
Back taxes
$38K
4 of 54 behind
▼ block 7% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
1
1 home · ZBA & boards
block 2% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+3%
value · tax +$94
5 years
+73%
value · tax +$464
10 years
+78%
value · tax +$297

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 $207K — about 0.9× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19138 median of $187K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19138 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19138Philadelphia
Median home value$207K$187K$223K
Owner-occupied80%53%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 61 reported crimes (17 violent) and 197 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
61
17 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
197
38 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults13
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief9
Motor Vehicle Theft8
All Other Offenses7
Theft from Vehicle7
Thefts7

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection71
Maintenance Complaint27
Abandoned Vehicle20
Salting14
Smoke Detector13
Street Light Outage11

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
Anna Blakiston Day
6324 Crittenden St · 289 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$207K2016: $116K2017: $116K2018: $116K2019: $125K2020: $119K2021: $119K2022: $119K2023: $165K2024: $165K2025: $201K2026: $201K2027: $207K2016202020232027

▲ +78% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$1,000$2,000$1,5052016: $1,2082017: $1,2082018: $1,2082019: $1,1862020: $1,0412021: $1,0412022: $1,0412023: $1,1872024: $1,1872025: $1,4112026: $1,4112027: $1,5052016202020232027

▲ +25% since 2016 · ~+2%/yr

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

1.40% — the statutory rate0%0.4%0.8%1.2%

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +5.4% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 178 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $178 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+5.4%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+78%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+5.4%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+2.4%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-1.1 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 54 arm's-length sales since 1999. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 25 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$250K$500K20002005201020152020
54arm's-length sales since 1999
1times the typical home has sold
4most sales for a single property
25homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 54 parcels

Owner-occupied: 51Absentee individual: 3 54parcels
  • Owner-occupied 51
  • Absentee individual 3

Value distribution today

39 parcels5 parcels0 parcels0 parcels3 parcels3 parcels4 parcels
$204K$303K+

No multi-home or corporate owners on this block — every home has its own owner.

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

$0$250K$500K201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median

Worth a look

AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
1600 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Absentee individual $280K —/— 1,716 1945 0
1601 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Absentee individual $207K —/— 2,739 1945 1
1602 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $207K 3/1 1,212 1945 0
1603 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $204K 3/1 1,212 1945 0
1604 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $208K 3/1 1,216 1945 0 tax lien
1605 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Traded 3×: $70K in 2016 → $240K in 2022 (+243%). Owner-occupied $273K 3/2 1,212 1945 3
1606 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $205K 3/1 1,212 1945 1
1607 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $205K 3/1 1,212 1945 0
1608 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $204K 3/1 1,212 1945 0
1609 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $204K 3/1 1,212 1945 0
1610 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $204K 3/1 1,212 1945 1
1611 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $226K 3/1 1,212 1945 1 rented
1612 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $204K 3/1 1,212 1945 1
1613 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $208K 3/1 1,212 1945 0
1614 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Traded 2×: $90K in 2004 → $115K in 2005 (+28%). Owner-occupied $208K 3/1 1,212 1945 2
1615 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $204K 3/1 1,212 1945 1 tax lien
1616 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $204K 3/1 1,212 1945 1
1617 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $205K 3/1 1,212 1945 0
1618 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Traded 4×: $61K in 2005 → $250K in 2021 (+310%). Owner-occupied $303K 3/2 1,212 1945 4
1619 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $208K 3/1 1,212 1945 0
1620 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $204K 3/1 1,212 1945 0
1621 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $307K 3/1 1,212 1945 1 tax lien
1622 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Traded 2×: $45K in 2001 → $75K in 2002 (+68%). Owner-occupied $205K 3/1 1,212 1945 2
1623 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $208K 3/1 1,212 1945 1
1624 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Traded 2×: $75K in 2007 → $166K in 2007 (+121%). Owner-occupied $226K 3/1 1,212 1945 2
1625 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $208K 3/1 1,212 1945 0
1626 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $204K 3/1 1,212 1945 0
1627 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $205K 3/1 1,212 1945 0
1628 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $205K 3/1 1,212 1945 0
1629 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Traded 4×: $39K in 2001 → $140K in 2009 (+259%). Owner-occupied $273K 3/1 1,212 1945 4
1630 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Traded 2×: $139K in 2009 → $33K in 2012 (-77%). Owner-occupied $204K 3/1 1,212 1945 2
1631 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $205K 3/1 1,212 1945 0
1632 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Traded 3×: $110K in 2005 → $185K in 2021 (+68%). Owner-occupied $208K 3/1 1,212 1945 3
1633 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $222K 3/1 1,212 1945 1 1 viol
1634 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $204K 3/1 1,212 1945 0 tax lien
1635 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $205K 3/1 1,212 1945 0
1636 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Traded 2×: $83K in 2004 → $142K in 2011 (+71%). Owner-occupied $204K 3/1 1,212 1945 2
1637 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Traded 2×: $84K in 2004 → $125K in 2019 (+50%). Owner-occupied $204K 4/1 1,212 1945 2
1638 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $205K 3/1 1,212 1945 0
1639 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $223K 3/1 1,212 1945 0
1640 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $208K 3/1 1,212 1945 0
1641 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Traded 2×: $109K in 2019 → $239K in 2020 (+119%). Owner-occupied $303K 3/1 1,212 1945 2
1642 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $205K 3/1 1,212 1945 0 3 viol
1643 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Traded 3×: $71K in 2012 → $252K in 2023 (+255%). Owner-occupied $273K 3/1 1,212 1945 3
1644 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $204K 3/1 1,212 1945 0
1645 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $208K 3/1 1,212 1945 1 rented
1646 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $205K 3/1 1,212 1945 0
1647 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Traded 3×: $110K in 2005 → $273K in 2023 (+148%). Owner-occupied $223K 3/1 1,212 1945 3
1648 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Traded 2×: $65K in 2005 → $120K in 2006 (+85%). Owner-occupied $207K 3/1 1,212 1945 2
1649 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $205K 3/1 1,212 1945 1
1650 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Traded 4×: $48K in 2004 → $195K in 2020 (+311%). Owner-occupied $303K 3/2 1,212 1945 4
1651 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $208K 3/1 1,212 1945 0
1652 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Owner-occupied $280K —/— 1,716 1945 1 rented
1653 E TULPEHOCKEN ST Bought for $80K in 2002. Owner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2026. Absentee individual $277K —/— 1,672 1945 1 6 viol

Neighborhood

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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.