1800 block of N Van Pelt St

How the block compares

The typical home here is $44K — about 0.2× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19121 median of $167K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19121 and across Philadelphia.

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 120 reported crimes (47 violent) and 111 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

• $44K typical home, up +134% since 2016
• Tax bill $91 to $604 a year, +19%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $6.7M assessed, $73,417/yr to the city, about $1,224 per home

Who really pays — each home's tax bill as a share of its value

Philadelphia charges every home the same 1.40% of its assessed value. On this block, 44 of 60 homes pay that full rate — and 16 pay less, because abatements and exemptions shrink the taxed value. Each dot is one home; the further left, the less of its value it pays. Hover a dot for the house.

The starkest example: 1833 N Van Pelt St is assessed at $429K but pays $1,201 a year — about 20% of the $6,008 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 beaten the Philadelphia market, compounding +8.1% 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 $234 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 56 arm's-length sales since 1999. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 31 have not changed hands at all.

Who owns it

The block's largest owner, Alion Investments LLC, carries 43 open violations across 48 properties it owns around the city.

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 60 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

Torn down & rebuilt

1832 N Van Pelt St

$38K · Old house bought for $40K in 2019, demolished in 2020 and rebuilt (2023).

Torn down & rebuilt

1846 N Van Pelt St

$38K · Old house bought for $44K in 2024, demolished in 2011 and rebuilt (2026).

New construction

1833 N Van Pelt St

$429K · Bought for $20K in 2020, built new (tax-abated), sold for $430K in 2022.

Renovated & sold on

1843 N Van Pelt St

$347K · Bought for $55K in 2018, addition and/or alteration permit in 2019, sold for $355K in 2025 (+545%).

Improved

1857 N Van Pelt St

$47K · Bought for $1K in 2006.

Improved

1805 N Van Pelt St

$44K · Bought for $1.3M in 2012.

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.