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Who owns your block

1900 block of S 54th St

A mixed-ownership block: 33% owner-occupied, 33% investor-held.

The typical home here is down 71% since 2016, now about $104K.

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
$104K
$47K–$711K
ZIP median $152K
Price / sq ft
$54
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
0.5×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$10K
typical · up to $10K
city ≈$3K/yr
Median built
1940
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
33%
1 of 3
city 41%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
-20%
value · tax +$0
5 years
-75%
value · tax +$0
10 years
-71%
value · tax +$0

Assessed-value change for the typical home. Philadelphia taxes a flat 1.3998% of value, so the bill moves with it.

How the block compares

The typical home here is $104K — about 0.5× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19143 median of $152K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19143 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19143Philadelphia
Median home value$104K$152K$223K
Owner-occupied0%41%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 62 reported crimes (22 violent) and 118 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
62
22 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
118
26 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults16
Motor Vehicle Theft11
Thefts9
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief7
All Other Offenses3
Fraud2

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection21
Maintenance Complaint19
Abandoned Vehicle18
Illegal Dumping15
Street Defect7
Construction Complaints5

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
Benjamin B Comegys
5100 Greenway Ave · 213 students
High · 9-12
John Bartram
2401 S 67th St · 594 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$500K$1.0M$104K2016: $363K2017: $363K2018: $406K2019: $421K2020: $424K2021: $424K2022: $424K2023: $526K2024: $526K2025: $130K2026: $130K2027: $104K2016202020232027

▼ -71% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

Not enough history yet.

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding -10.7% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

2910025020162019202220252027This block 29 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $29 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
-10.7%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
-71%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
-10.7%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
-13.7%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-17.2 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.

Who owns it

Ownership of 3 parcels

Owner-occupied: 1Vacant: 2 3parcels
  • Owner-occupied 1
  • Vacant 2

Value distribution today

1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$47K$104K+

The block's largest owner, Amtrak, carries 8 open violations across 58 properties it owns around the city.

OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Amtrak (individual)258$75Mphila.gov ↗
Peacock Labaroties Inc11$711Kphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 3 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$500K$1.0M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
1901 S 54TH ST Owner pulled a plumbing permit in 2016. Owner-occupied $711K 13,150 1940 0
1928 S 54TH ST 2 L&I violations (2018). Vacant $104K 0
1933 S 54TH ST 3 L&I violations (2016); 2 L&I violations (2018). Vacant $47K 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.