1700 block of Wallace St

How the block compares

The typical home here is $319K — about 1.4× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19130 median of $457K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19130 and across Philadelphia.

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 114 reported crimes (22 violent) and 228 resident 311 requests to the city.

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

• $319K typical home, up +57% since 2016
• Tax bill $2,723 to $3,841 a year, +3%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $40M assessed, $454,484/yr to the city, about $4,094 per home

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:

• 1706 Wallace Sttax-abated new construction0.00%$0/yr on $44K
• 1718 Wallace Sttax-abated new construction0.00%$0/yr on $789K
• 1724 Wallace Sttax-abated new construction0.00%$0/yr on $824K
• 1730 Wallace Sttax-abated new construction0.00%$0/yr on $958K
• 1733 Wallace Stexemption0.64%$1,184/yr on $185K
• …and 48 more paying under the full rate — the gold-ringed bubbles in the makeup chart

The starkest example: 1701 Wallace St is assessed at $1.0M but pays $8,858 a year — about 63% of the $14,030 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 +4.2% 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 $157 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed 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 8 arm's-length sales since 2001. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 105 have not changed hands at all.

Who owns it

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 111 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

New construction

1701 Wallace St

$1.0M · Bought for $458K in 2015, built new under a 2021 permit (tax-abated), sold for $675K in 2021.

Improved

1712 Wallace St

$372K · Owner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2025.

Improved

1714 Wallace St

$269K · Owner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2024.

Traded

1717 Wallace St

$1.4M · Traded 2×: $480K in 2003 → $1.2M in 2020 (+150%).

Tax lien

1722 Wallace St

$910K

3 open violations

1730 Wallace St

$958K

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.