1900 block of S 4th St

How the block compares

The typical home here is $268K — about 1.2× the citywide median, and in line with the ZIP 19148 median of $261K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19148 and across Philadelphia.

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 92 reported crimes (35 violent) and 268 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

• $268K typical home, up +153% since 2016
• Tax bill $1,299 to $2,512 a year, +6%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $12M assessed, $118,859/yr to the city, about $2,830 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, 13 of 42 homes pay that full rate — and 29 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: 1915 S 4th St is assessed at $404K but pays $1,854 a year — about 33% of the $5,651 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 +8.8% 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 $253 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 68 arm's-length sales since 2000. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 13 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 42 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

1915 S 4th St

$404K · Bought for $50K in 2003, built new under a 2016 permit (tax-abated), sold for $402K in 2022.

New construction

1945 S 4th St

$328K · Bought for $165K in 2020, built new under a 2020 permit, sold for $365K in 2021.

New construction

1902 S 4th St

$324K · built new under a 2007 permit (tax-abated).

New construction

1906 S 4th St

$321K · built new under a 2019 permit, sold for $132K in 2005.

Renovated & sold on

1924 S 4th St

$364K · Bought for $19K in 2000, use permit in 2018, sold for $275K in 2023 (+1363%).

Renovated & sold on

1932 S 4th St

$363K · Bought for $80K in 2010, major alteration permit in 2010, sold for $385K in 2024 (+381%).

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.