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Who owns your block

1700 block of N Creighton St

An investor-heavy block: 42% of the parcels are held by LLCs or companies, with 2 open code violations and 5 homes behind $33,258 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 10% since 2016, now about $85K. Property taxes are climbing about 5% 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
$85K
$15K–$229K
ZIP median $156K
Price / sq ft
$85
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
0.4×
the city median
city $223K
Recent sale
$45K
1 sold in 2yr
assessed $85K
Tax / yr
$746
typical · up to $3K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
1 of 12
$4K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
42%
5 of 12
city 41%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
2
L&I code
▲ block 8% · city 5%
Back taxes
$33K
5 of 12 behind
▲ block 42% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
1
1 home · ZBA & boards
block 8% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+4%
value · tax +$28
5 years
+108%
value · tax +$93
10 years
+4%
value · tax −$515

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 $85K — about 0.4× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19131 median of $156K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19131 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19131Philadelphia
Median home value$85K$156K$223K
Owner-occupied25%42%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 56 reported crimes (21 violent) and 129 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
56
21 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
129
44 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults14
Thefts10
Theft from Vehicle6
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief6
Aggravated Assault No Firearm5
Motor Vehicle Theft4

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection32
Abandoned Vehicle25
Maintenance Complaint19
Illegal Dumping14
Traffic Signal Emergency8
Complaint (Streets)4

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
Edward Heston
1621 N 54th St · 219 students
High · 9-12
Overbrook High
5898 Lancaster Ave · 466 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$100K$200K$85K2016: $77K2017: $81K2018: $77K2019: $39K2020: $41K2021: $41K2022: $41K2023: $71K2024: $71K2025: $82K2026: $82K2027: $85K2016202020232027

▲ +10% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$1,000$2,000$5262016: $9172017: $1,0412018: $1,0742019: $5502020: $5712021: $4332022: $4332023: $6092024: $6092025: $4982026: $4982027: $5262016202020232027

▼ -43% since 2016 · ~-5%/yr

1
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 $4,430 a year off the tax roll. Read the tax figures with that in mind.

Who really pays

Philadelphia charges every home the same 1.40% of its assessed value. Abatements and exemptions shrink what some homes are taxed on — here's this block:

8 homes pay the full 1.40%4 pay less
$76pays now $307at the full rate

The starkest example: 1718 N Creighton St is assessed at $22K but pays $76 a year — about 25% of the $307 it would owe at the full rate, because its new-construction value is abated for 10 years.

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +0.9% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

5110025020162019202220252027This block 110 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $110 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+0.9%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+10%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+0.9%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
-2.1%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-5.6 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 6 arm's-length sales since 2006. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 7 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$500K$1.0M20082012201620202024
6arm's-length sales since 2006
0times the typical home has sold
2most sales for a single property
7homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 12 parcels

Owner-occupied: 5Investor / LLC: 4Vacant: 3 12parcels
  • Owner-occupied 5
  • Investor / LLC 4
  • Vacant 3

Value distribution today

6 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels2 parcels1 parcels3 parcels
$15K$213K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Centennial Village LP315$1.5Mphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗
Jr Realty Investments LLC14$519Kphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗
Hp1 Holdings LLC11$15Kphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗

The mailing address is where the assessor sends the tax bill — for an LLC, often the closest public record gets to the person behind it. "Registry" searches the owner's name in state incorporation records (OpenCorporates).

House by house

All 12 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
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
1718 N CREIGHTON ST demolished in 2014 and rebuilt (2014), then sold for $757K in 2016. Investor / LLC $22K —/— 1,705 2016 1 abated
1719 N CREIGHTON ST 2 L&I violations (2007); L&I violation (2014); 2 L&I violations (2015); L&I violation (2021). Vacant $16K —/— 0
1720 N CREIGHTON ST demolished in 2017 and rebuilt (2017), then sold for $25K in 2024. Vacant $15K —/— 2 tax lien
1721 N CREIGHTON ST L&I violation (2014). Owner-occupied $213K —/— 1,896 1915 0
1722 N CREIGHTON ST Owner pulled a plumbing permit in 2017. Investor / LLC $22K 4/1 1,707 1925 0
1723 N CREIGHTON ST Owner-occupied $156K —/— 1,896 1915 1
1724 N CREIGHTON ST built new under a 2015 permit. Investor / LLC $22K —/— 1,639 2016 0
1725 N CREIGHTON ST 2 L&I violations (2008); 2 L&I violations (2009); 2 L&I violations (2010). Owner-occupied $229K —/— 1,800 1915 0
1726 N CREIGHTON ST Bought for $9K in 2016. Owner pulled a demolition permit in 2017. Vacant $15K —/— 1 tax lien
1727 N CREIGHTON ST 3 L&I violations (2008); 2 L&I violations (2009); 2 L&I violations (2025). Owner-occupied $208K —/— 1,800 1915 0 2 violtax lien
1728 N CREIGHTON ST sold $14K (2014); 2 L&I violations (2015); 3 L&I violations incl UNSAFE STRUCTURE (2025). Investor / LLC $148K 4/1 1,576 1925 1
1729 N CREIGHTON ST 2 L&I violations (2008); 2 L&I violations (2009). Owner-occupied $153K 4/1 1,800 1915 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.