2200 block of Cross St

How the block compares

The typical home here is $195K — about 0.9× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19146 median of $364K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19146 and across Philadelphia.

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 181 reported crimes (44 violent) and 414 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

• $195K typical home, up +240% since 2016
• Tax bill $568 to $1,452 a year, +9%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $11M assessed, $82,295/yr to the city, about $1,714 per home

Who really pays

Philadelphia charges every home the same 1.40% of its assessed value. Abatements and exemptions shrink what some homes are taxed on — here's this block:

• 2214 Cross Sttax-abated new construction0.00%$0/yr on $436K
• 2255 Cross Sttax-abated new construction0.12%$197/yr on $162K
• 2223 Cross Sttax-abated new construction0.18%$286/yr on $162K
• 2247 Cross Sttax-abated new construction0.18%$286/yr on $162K
• 2209 Cross Sttax-abated new construction0.28%$1,268/yr on $453K
• …and 25 more paying under the full rate — the gold-ringed bubbles in the makeup chart

The starkest example: 2209 Cross St is assessed at $453K but pays $1,268 a year — about 20% of the $6,342 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 +11.8% 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 $340 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 87 arm's-length sales since 1969. The typical home has sold 2 times in that window, while 14 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 48 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

2209 Cross St

$453K · demolished in 2018 and rebuilt (2018), then sold for $366K in 2020.

Torn down & rebuilt

2244 Cross St

$415K · Old house bought for $9K in 2014, demolished and rebuilt (2017), then sold for $385K in 2020.

Torn down & rebuilt

2246 Cross St

$415K · demolished in 2010 and rebuilt (2017).

Torn down & rebuilt

2226 Cross St

$380K · demolished and rebuilt (2016), then sold for $320K in 2018.

Torn down & rebuilt

2241 Cross St

$380K · Old house bought for $35K in 2016, demolished and rebuilt (2016), then sold for $405K in 2023.

Torn down & rebuilt

2253 Cross St

$380K · demolished and rebuilt (2016), then sold for $425K in 2022.

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.