Who owns your block
1600 block of Unity St
A mixed-ownership block: 50% owner-occupied, 22% investor-held, with 3 homes behind $14,630 on taxes.
The typical home here is up 127% since 2016, now about $129K. Property taxes are climbing about 7% 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 $129K — about 0.6× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19124 median of $170K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19124 and across Philadelphia.
| This block | ZIP 19124 | Philadelphia | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $129K | $170K | $223K |
| Owner-occupied | 33% | 40% | 41% |
Safety & quality of life
Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 124 reported crimes (38 violent) and 84 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
- $129K typical home, up +127% since 2016
- Tax bill $778 to $1,596 a year, +7%/yr and compounding
- Whole block: $2.4M assessed, $22,428/yr to the city, about $1,246 per home
Median assessed value · 2016–2027
▲ +127% since 2016
Estimated property tax · per home, per year
▲ +105% since 2016 · ~+7%/yr
Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home
1629-31 Unity St is assessed at $231K but pays $0 a year — about 0% of the $3,231 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 +7.8% 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 $227 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced 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 21 arm's-length sales since 1969. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 4 have not changed hands at all.
Every recorded sale · price & date
Who owns it
Ownership of 18 parcels
- Owner-occupied 8
- Investor / LLC 4
- Absentee individual 4
- Vacant 2
Value distribution today
The block's largest owner, Penn Fam Vision Llc, carries 1 open violation across 30 properties it owns around the city.
| Owner | On block | Owns citywide | Portfolio value | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penn Fam Vision Llc | 1 | 30 | $4.2M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Scully Properties Llc | 1 | 13 | $2.3M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Baltinena Investments Llc | 1 | 1 | $188K | phila.gov ↗ |
| Or Lavi Llc | 1 | 1 | $128K | phila.gov ↗ |
House by house
All 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1610 UNITY ST Historysold $250K (2024); Appeal withdrawn (2026). | Investor / LLC | $188K | 2/2 | 1,568 | 1935 | 1 | rented |
| 1612 UNITY ST | Absentee individual | $128K | 3/1 | 1,356 | 1935 | 0 | rented |
| 1614 UNITY ST | Absentee individual | $121K | 3/1 | 1,230 | 1935 | 0 | rented |
| 1616 UNITY ST | Owner-occupied | $125K | 3/1 | 1,356 | 1935 | 0 | |
| 1618 UNITY ST | Owner-occupied | $126K | 3/1 | 1,356 | 1935 | 1 | |
| 1620 UNITY ST TradedTraded 2×: $8K in 2004 → $55K in 2018 (+633%). | Owner-occupied | $126K | 3/1 | 1,356 | 1935 | 2 | |
| 1622 UNITY ST | Absentee individual | $107K | 3/1 | 924 | 1935 | 1 | rented |
| 1624 UNITY ST ImprovedBought for $5K in 2001. | Vacant | $25K | —/— | — | — | 1 | tax lien |
| 1626 UNITY ST | Owner-occupied | $148K | —/— | 1,382 | 1935 | 1 | |
| 1628 UNITY ST TradedTraded 2×: $41K in 2004 → $125K in 2022 (+206%). | Owner-occupied | $131K | 3/1 | 1,434 | 1935 | 2 | |
| 1629-31 UNITY ST | Absentee individual | $231K | —/— | 2,842 | 1950 | 0 | abated |
| 1630 UNITY ST Frequently tradedTraded 3×: $16K in 2012 → $30K in 2016 (+88%). | Investor / LLC | $128K | 3/1 | 1,400 | 1935 | 3 | |
| 1632 UNITY ST | Owner-occupied | $135K | 3/1 | 1,472 | 1935 | 1 | tax lien |
| 1634 UNITY ST | Investor / LLC | $139K | —/— | 1,410 | 1935 | 1 | rented |
| 1636 UNITY ST Frequently tradedTraded 3×: $25K in 2002 → $3.3M in 2024 (+13222%). | Investor / LLC | $136K | —/— | 1,410 | 1935 | 3 | rented |
| 1656 UNITY ST | Vacant | $23K | —/— | — | — | 1 | tax lien |
| 1658 UNITY ST | Owner-occupied | $174K | —/— | 2,092 | 1935 | 1 | |
| 1660 UNITY ST TradedTraded 2×: $20K in 2016 → $80K in 2018 (+300%). | Owner-occupied | $169K | —/— | 2,286 | 1935 | 2 |
Neighborhood
Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.
Generated 2026-07-08 from public City of Philadelphia records · Download this block's data (CSV)