200 block of S 53rd St

How the block compares

The typical home here is $178K — about 0.8× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19139 median of $133K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19139 and across Philadelphia.

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 136 reported crimes (53 violent) and 257 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

• $178K typical home, up +137% since 2016
• Tax bill $974 to $2,085 a year, +7%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $8.0M assessed, $75,179/yr to the city, about $1,928 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, 18 of 39 homes pay that full rate — and 21 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: 213 S 53rd St is assessed at $745K but pays $2,085 a year — about 20% of the $10,423 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 +8.2% 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 $237 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 50 arm's-length sales since 2001. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 17 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 39 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

213 S 53rd St

$745K · demolished in 2022 and rebuilt (2022).

New construction

216 S 53rd St

$118K · built new under a 2022 permit (tax-abated).

Renovated & sold on

253 S 53rd St

$289K · Bought for $35K in 2008, use permit in 2008, sold for $369K in 2024 (+954%).

Renovated & sold on

237 S 53rd St

$262K · Bought for $1K in 2018, electrical permit in 2018, sold for $259K in 2019 (+25790%).

Renovated & sold on

247 S 53rd St

$253K · Bought for $110K in 2021, addition and/or alteration permit in 2021, sold for $355K in 2024 (+223%).

Renovated & sold on

245 S 53rd St

$238K · Bought for $43K in 2003, alteration permit in 2018, sold for $222K in 2018 (+415%).

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.