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Who owns your block

1600 block of N 8th St

A mostly owner-occupied block: 60% of homes are lived in by their owners, with 7 open code violations.

The typical home here is up 267% since 2016, now about $305K. Property taxes are climbing about 13% 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
$305K
$72K–$13M
ZIP median $278K
Price / sq ft
$188
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
1.4×
the city median
city $223K
Recent sale
$300K
1 sold in 2yr
assessed $305K
Tax / yr
$3K
typical · up to $5K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
2 of 15
$207K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
60%
9 of 15
city 41%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
7
L&I code
▲ block 13% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+21%
value · tax +$750
5 years
+204%
value · tax +$2K
10 years
+267%
value · tax +$2K

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 $305K — about 1.4× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19122 median of $278K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19122 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19122Philadelphia
Median home value$305K$278K$223K
Owner-occupied60%21%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 70 reported crimes (11 violent) and 110 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
70
11 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
110
7 still open

Most reported crimes

Motor Vehicle Theft15
Thefts12
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief9
Fraud8
Theft from Vehicle7
Aggravated Assault No Firearm4

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection39
Maintenance Complaint14
Abandoned Vehicle11
Illegal Dumping9
Salting5
Shoveling5

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
James R Ludlow
550 W Master St · 237 students
High · 6-12
Penn Treaty HS
600 E Thompson St · 345 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$250K$500K$305K2016: $83K2017: $83K2018: $83K2019: $100K2020: $100K2021: $100K2022: $100K2023: $160K2024: $160K2025: $251K2026: $251K2027: $305K2016202020232027

▲ +267% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$2,500$5,000$2,8642016: $7432017: $7432018: $7432019: $8432020: $7732021: $7732022: $7732023: $1,0582024: $1,1112025: $2,1142026: $2,1142027: $2,8642016202020232027

▲ +285% since 2016 · ~+13%/yr

2
2 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 $206,717 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%
$0pays now $188,104at the full rate

1600-22 N 8th St is assessed at $13M but pays $0 a year — about 0% of the $188,104 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 beaten the Philadelphia market, compounding +12.5% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510050020162019202220252027This block 367 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $367 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced the market.

Annualized return
+12.5%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+267%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+12.5%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+9.5%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
+6 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 3 arm's-length sales since 2000. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 12 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$250K$500K200020052010201520202025
3arm's-length sales since 2000
0times the typical home has sold
1most sales for a single property
12homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 15 parcels

Owner-occupied: 9Absentee individual: 4Vacant: 2 15parcels
  • Owner-occupied 9
  • Absentee individual 4
  • Vacant 2

Value distribution today

2 parcels0 parcels0 parcels1 parcels6 parcels4 parcels2 parcels
$72K$423K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Philadelphia Housing Auth (individual)24773$1418Mphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 15 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$10M$20M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
1600-22 N 8TH ST built new under a 2009 permit (tax-abated). Absentee individual $13M —/— 104,000 1981 0 abated6 viol
1609 N 8TH ST Absentee individual $256K 4/1 2,000 1915 0 abated
1611 N 8TH ST Owner pulled a mechanical permit in 2017. Owner-occupied $423K —/1 1,488 1997 0
1617 N 8TH ST 2 L&I violations (2023); L&I violation (2025). Owner-occupied $329K —/1 1,488 1997 0 1 viol
1619 N 8TH ST Owner-occupied $329K —/1 1,488 1997 0
1623 N 8TH ST Owner-occupied $284K —/— 1,980 1915 0
1625 N 8TH ST Vacant $102K —/— 0
1627 N 8TH ST Absentee individual $301K —/— 1,599 1915 1
1629 N 8TH ST Owner-occupied $305K 4/2 1,800 1915 1
1631 N 8TH ST Owner-occupied $289K —/— 1,608 1915 1
1635 N 8TH ST Owner-occupied $329K —/1 1,488 1997 0
1637 N 8TH ST Owner pulled a roof covering replacement permit in 2025. Owner-occupied $297K —/1 1,488 1915 0
1643 N 8TH ST Absentee individual $310K 4/1 1,689 1997 0
1645 N 8TH ST Owner-occupied $344K 4/1 1,689 1997 0
1649 N 8TH ST 2 L&I violations (2011); 2 L&I violations (2014). Vacant $72K —/— 0

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.

Generated 2026-07-09 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.