200 block of S Cecil St

How the block compares

The typical home here is $131K — about 0.6× the citywide median, and in line with 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: 198 reported crimes (53 violent) and 186 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

• $131K typical home, up +102% since 2016
• Tax bill $901 to $1,680 a year, +6%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $9.8M assessed, $96,950/yr to the city, about $1,276 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, 50 of 76 homes pay that full rate — and 26 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: 221 S Cecil St is assessed at $416K but pays $1,166 a year — about 20% of the $5,829 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 tracked the Philadelphia market, compounding +6.6% 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 $202 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 70 arm's-length sales since 2000. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 36 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 76 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

221 S Cecil St

$416K · demolished in 2010 and rebuilt (2020).

New construction

235 S Cecil St

$308K · built new under a 2023 permit (tax-abated), sold for $36K in 2023.

New construction

242 S Cecil St

$123K · built new under a 2009 permit (tax-abated).

New construction

205 S Cecil St

$122K · built new under a 2018 permit (tax-abated).

New construction

259 S Cecil St

$91K · built new under a 2024 permit (tax-abated).

Renovated & sold on

224 S Cecil St

$196K · Bought for $35K in 2003, major alteration permit in 2019, sold for $150K in 2020 (+328%).

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.