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Who owns your block

2000 block of E Walnut Ln

A mostly owner-occupied block: 92% of homes are lived in by their owners, with 2 homes behind $17,786 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 64% since 2016, now about $226K. Property taxes are climbing about 1% a year and the increases are speeding up.

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
$226K
$210K–$300K
ZIP median $187K
Price / sq ft
$157
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
1.0×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$2K
typical · up to $4K
city ≈$3K/yr
Median built
1950
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
92%
12 of 13
city 41%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$18K
2 of 13 behind
▲ block 15% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
10
10 homes · ZBA & boards
block 77% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
-1%
value · tax −$26
5 years
+72%
value · tax +$558
10 years
+64%
value · tax +$259

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 $226K — about 1.0× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19138 median of $187K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19138 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19138Philadelphia
Median home value$226K$187K$223K
Owner-occupied77%53%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 59 reported crimes (15 violent) and 182 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
59
15 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
182
52 still open

Most reported crimes

Motor Vehicle Theft10
Other Assaults9
Thefts8
All Other Offenses7
Fraud6
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief6

Top 311 complaints

Abandoned Vehicle41
Maintenance Complaint31
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection29
Street Defect11
Traffic Signal Emergency8
Illegal Dumping7

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
Samuel Pennypacker
1858 E Washington Ln · 302 students
High · 9-12
Martin Luther King
6100 Stenton Ave · 604 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$125K$250K$226K2016: $137K2017: $137K2018: $137K2019: $137K2020: $131K2021: $131K2022: $131K2023: $179K2024: $179K2025: $228K2026: $228K2027: $226K2016202020232027

▲ +64% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$1,000$2,000$1,7622016: $1,5032017: $1,5032018: $1,5032019: $1,3552020: $1,2042021: $1,2042022: $1,2042023: $1,3802024: $1,3802025: $1,7882026: $1,7882027: $1,7622016202020232027

▲ +17% since 2016 · ~+1%/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 +4.6% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 164 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $164 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+4.6%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+64%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+4.6%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+1.6%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-1.9 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 5 arm's-length sales since 2001. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 10 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$100K$200K2004200820122016
5arm's-length sales since 2001
0times the typical home has sold
3most sales for a single property
10homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 13 parcels

Owner-occupied: 12Absentee individual: 1 13parcels
  • Owner-occupied 12
  • Absentee individual 1

Value distribution today

1 parcels0 parcels9 parcels1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$210K$248K+

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

House by house

All 13 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$250K$500K201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
2021 E WALNUT LN Appeal city affirmed (2017). Owner-occupied $248K 3/1 1,464 1950 0
2023 E WALNUT LN Appeal city affirmed (2017). Owner-occupied $226K 3/1 1,440 1950 0
2025 E WALNUT LN Appeal city affirmed (2017). Absentee individual $229K 3/1 1,440 1950 0
2027 E WALNUT LN Appeal city affirmed (2017). Owner-occupied $226K 3/1 1,440 1950 0 tax lien
2029 E WALNUT LN sold $70K (2001); Appeal city affirmed (2017). Owner-occupied $226K —/— 1,440 1950 1
2031 E WALNUT LN Appeal city affirmed (2017). Owner-occupied $226K 3/1 1,440 1950 0 tax lien
2033 E WALNUT LN sold $145K (2011); Appeal city affirmed (2017). Owner-occupied $224K 3/1 1,422 1950 1
2035 E WALNUT LN Appeal city affirmed (2017). Owner-occupied $226K 3/1 1,440 1950 0
2037 E WALNUT LN Appeal city affirmed (2017). Owner-occupied $226K 3/1 1,440 1950 0 tax lien
2039 E WALNUT LN Owner-occupied $226K 3/1 1,440 1950 0
2041 E WALNUT LN Appeal city affirmed (2017). Owner-occupied $224K 3/1 1,440 1950 0
2043 E WALNUT LN Owner-occupied $210K 3/1 1,440 1925 0 tax lien
2045 E WALNUT LN Traded 3×: $121K in 2006 → $177K in 2017 (+46%). Owner-occupied $300K 3/2 1,600 1950 3

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.