200 block of Sigel St

How the block compares

The typical home here is $250K — about 1.1× the citywide median, and below 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: 56 reported crimes (18 violent) and 299 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

• $250K typical home, up +55% since 2016
• Tax bill $1,836 to $2,249 a year, +2%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $14M assessed, $126,589/yr to the city, about $2,532 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 50 homes pay that full rate — and 37 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: 208 Sigel St is assessed at $527K but pays $1,475 a year — about 20% of the $7,377 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 lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +4.1% 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 $155 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed 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 82 arm's-length sales since 1998. The typical home has sold 2 times in that window, while 15 have not changed hands at all.

Who owns it

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

House by house

All 50 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

208 Sigel St

$527K · Bought for $75K in 2001, built new (tax-abated), sold for $465K in 2020.

New construction

256 Sigel St

$491K · Bought for $10K in 2003, built new (tax-abated), sold for $405K in 2018.

New construction

227 Sigel St

$289K · built new (tax-abated), sold for $65K in 2001.

New construction

242 Sigel St

$239K · built new (tax-abated), sold for $20K in 2000.

Frequently traded

218 Sigel St

$421K · Traded 5×: $60K in 2004 → $410K in 2021 (+583%).

Frequently traded

236 Sigel St

$359K · Traded 3×: $174K in 2018 → $400K in 2024 (+130%).

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.