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Who owns your block

2200 block of S 12th St

A mostly owner-occupied block: 71% of homes are lived in by their owners.

The typical home here is up 105% since 2016, now about $301K. Property taxes are climbing about 6% a year though the increases have eased lately.

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
$301K
$251K–$475K
ZIP median $261K
Price / sq ft
$206
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
1.4×
the city median
city $223K
Recent sale
$550K
1 sold in 2yr
assessed $301K
Tax / yr
$4K
typical · up to $7K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
1 of 14
$9K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
71%
10 of 14
city 41%
Rentals
21%
3 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
2
1 home · ZBA & boards
block 7% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+4%
value · tax +$155
5 years
+42%
value · tax +$1K
10 years
+105%
value · tax +$2K

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 $301K — about 1.4× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19148 median of $261K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19148 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19148Philadelphia
Median home value$301K$261K$223K
Owner-occupied29%41%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 102 reported crimes (24 violent) and 325 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
102
24 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
325
33 still open

Most reported crimes

Theft from Vehicle23
Thefts17
Other Assaults16
Motor Vehicle Theft12
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief12
All Other Offenses7

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection76
Salting63
Shoveling24
Maintenance Complaint23
Graffiti Removal20
Illegal Dumping15

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 · K-8
Francis Scott Key
8500 Pickering St · 217 students
Middle · K-8
Southwark
1835 S 9th St · 889 students
High · 9-12
South Philadelphia HS
2101 S Broad St · 647 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$250K$500K$301K2016: $147K2017: $147K2018: $147K2019: $203K2020: $212K2021: $212K2022: $212K2023: $255K2024: $255K2025: $290K2026: $290K2027: $301K2016202020232027

▲ +105% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$2,500$5,000$4,0102016: $2,0532017: $2,0532018: $2,0532019: $2,6972020: $2,8712021: $2,8712022: $2,8712023: $3,4282024: $3,4282025: $3,5722026: $3,8552027: $4,0102016202020232027

▲ +95% since 2016 · ~+6%/yr

1
1 property on this block carry a tax abatement or major exemption. New construction and gut rehabs get the improvement value exempted for up to 10 years, so their tax bills sit far below their real value — block-wide, exemptions keep about $9,115 a year off the tax roll. Read the tax figures with that in mind.

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:

9 homes pay the full 1.40%5 pay less
$2,308pays now $5,823at the full rate

The starkest example: 2230 S 12th St is assessed at $416K but pays $2,308 a year — about 40% of the $5,823 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 +6.8% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 205 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $205 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced the market.

Annualized return
+6.8%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+105%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+6.8%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+3.8%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
+0.3 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 15 arm's-length sales since 2001. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 5 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$500K$1.0M20052010201520202025
15arm's-length sales since 2001
1times the typical home has sold
3most sales for a single property
5homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 14 parcels

Owner-occupied: 10Investor / LLC: 2Absentee individual: 2 14parcels
  • Owner-occupied 10
  • Investor / LLC 2
  • Absentee individual 2

Value distribution today

3 parcels5 parcels1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels2 parcels3 parcels
$251K$470K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Stephen Family LLC11$470Kphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗
L & J Rittenhouse Nails INC11$475Kphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗

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 14 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
2227 S 12TH ST Owner pulled a plumbing permit in 2016. Owner-occupied $467K 6/3 3,019 1915 0 rented
2228 S 12TH ST Bought for $230K in 2014, built new under a 2023 permit, sold for $330K in 2022. Owner-occupied $251K —/— 1,870 1925 2
2229 S 12TH ST Traded 2×: $50K in 2010 → $261K in 2019 (+427%). Absentee individual $287K 3/1 1,392 1925 2
2230 S 12TH ST Bought for $140K in 2018, built new under a 2018 permit (tax-abated), sold for $395K in 2019. Owner-occupied $416K 3/— 1,412 1925 2 abated
2231 S 12TH ST Traded 3×: $67K in 2001 → $150K in 2009 (+124%). Absentee individual $287K 2/1 1,392 1925 3 rented
2232 S 12TH ST Owner-occupied $275K 3/1 1,280 1925 0
2233 S 12TH ST Traded 2×: $106K in 2003 → $145K in 2010 (+37%). Owner-occupied $290K 3/1 1,392 1925 2
2234 S 12TH ST Owner-occupied $269K 3/1 1,280 1925 0
2235 S 12TH ST Owner-occupied $290K 3/1 1,392 1925 0
2236 S 12TH ST Owner-occupied $312K 3/1 1,454 1925 1
2237 S 12TH ST Bought for $385K in 2018. Owner pulled a alterations permit in 2024. Owner-occupied $415K 3/1 2,496 1925 1
2238 S 12TH ST Owner pulled a plumbing permit in 2019. Owner-occupied $340K 3/1 2,000 1925 0
2239 S 12TH ST Investor / LLC $470K —/— 3,132 1915 1 rented
2240 S 12TH ST Bought for $550K in 2026. Owner pulled a mechanical permit in 2012. Investor / LLC $475K —/— 3,168 1925 1

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.