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Who owns your block

200 block of E Venango St

A mixed-ownership block: 11% owner-occupied, 0% investor-held, with 5 open code violations.

The typical home here is down 50% since 2016, now about $230K. Property taxes are climbing about 6% a year though the increases have eased lately.

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
$230K
$145K–$3.6M
ZIP median $113K
Price / sq ft
$140
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
1.0×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$3K
typical · up to $50K
city ≈$3K/yr
Median built
1940
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
11%
1 of 9
city 41%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
5
L&I code
▲ block 11% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
-12%
value · tax −$440
5 years
-55%
value · tax −$4K
10 years
-50%
value · tax −$3K

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 $230K — about 1.0× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19134 median of $113K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19134 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19134Philadelphia
Median home value$230K$113K$223K
Owner-occupied0%29%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 54 reported crimes (21 violent) and 78 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
54
21 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
78
22 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults14
All Other Offenses12
Fraud6
Aggravated Assault No Firearm5
Motor Vehicle Theft5
Theft from Vehicle3

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection11
Illegal Dumping10
Street Defect9
Maintenance Complaint7
Abandoned Vehicle6
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 · K-5
William Cramp
3449 N Mascher St · 317 students
Middle · 5-8
Stetson
3200 B St · 511 students
High · 9-12
Thomas A Edison
151 W Luzerne St · 1022 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$230K2016: $457K2017: $457K2018: $471K2019: $507K2020: $510K2021: $510K2022: $510K2023: $561K2024: $561K2025: $596K2026: $262K2027: $230K2016202020232027

▼ -50% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$5,000$10,000$3,2252016: $6,3982017: $6,3982018: $6,5902019: $7,0932020: $7,1382021: $7,1382022: $7,1382023: $7,8502024: $7,8502025: $8,3472026: $3,6652027: $3,2252016202020232027

▼ -50% since 2016 · ~-6%/yr

Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home

1.40% — the statutory rate0%0.4%0.8%1.2%

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding -6% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

5010025020162019202220252027This block 50 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $50 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
-6%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
-50%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
-6%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
-9%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-12.5 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 1 arm's-length sale since 2001. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 8 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

Few recorded sales.

1arm's-length sales since 2001
0times the typical home has sold
1most sales for a single property
8homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 9 parcels

Owner-occupied: 1Absentee individual: 8 9parcels
  • Owner-occupied 1
  • Absentee individual 8

Value distribution today

4 parcels3 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$145K$720K+

No multi-home or corporate owners on this block — every home has its own owner.

House by house

All 9 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$2.5M$5.0M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
201-11 E VENANGO ST Owner-occupied $3.6M 19,875 1993 0
221 E VENANGO ST Absentee individual $235K 1,677 1940 1 5 viol
223 E VENANGO ST Absentee individual $145K 2,078 1940 0
227 E VENANGO ST Absentee individual $230K 3,292 1940 0
233 E VENANGO ST Absentee individual $153K 1,093 1940 0
235 E VENANGO ST Absentee individual $161K 1,147 1940 0
237 E VENANGO ST Absentee individual $161K 1,147 1940 0
239 E VENANGO ST Absentee individual $276K 1,973 1940 0
243 E VENANGO ST Absentee individual $720K 5,998 1940 0

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.

Generated 2026-07-08 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.