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Who owns your block

2300 block of Locust St

A mixed-ownership block: 52% owner-occupied, 38% investor-held, with 4 open code violations.

The typical home here is up 92% since 2016, now about $799K. 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.
The readAI analysis · from the figures below
  1. 01
    Rentals

    38% of homes are investor-owned but only 19% are rentals and just 4 are licensed, suggesting half of investor properties sit vacant.

  2. 02
    Turnover

    13 of 21 homes have never sold since 2000, meaning 62% of the block has held through 92% appreciation since 2016.

By the Numbers

Median value
$799K
$367K–$1.5M
ZIP median $608K
Price / sq ft
$394
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
3.6×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$11K
typical · up to $21K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
1 of 21
$4K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
52%
11 of 21
city 41%
Rentals
19%
4 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
4
L&I code
▲ block 5% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
2
1 home · ZBA & boards
block 5% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+6%
value · tax +$406
5 years
+31%
value · tax +$2K
10 years
+92%
value · tax +$5K

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 $799K — about 3.6× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19103 median of $608K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19103 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19103Philadelphia
Median home value$799K$608K$223K
Owner-occupied19%28%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 80 reported crimes (15 violent) and 427 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
80
15 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
427
32 still open

Most reported crimes

Thefts19
Theft from Vehicle11
Burglary Residential9
Motor Vehicle Theft8
Other Assaults7
Burglary Non-Residential6

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection77
Illegal Dumping57
Sanitation Violation49
Graffiti Removal47
Street Light Outage34
Salting22

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
Albert M Greenfield
2200 Chestnut St · 757 students
High · 9-12
Benjamin HS Franklin
616 N 15th St · 975 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$500K$1.0M$799K2016: $417K2017: $417K2018: $417K2019: $590K2020: $610K2021: $610K2022: $610K2023: $663K2024: $663K2025: $752K2026: $752K2027: $799K2016202020232027

▲ +92% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$10,000$20,000$10,9272016: $5,6232017: $5,8332018: $5,8332019: $8,2572020: $8,3532021: $8,3532022: $8,5332023: $9,2812024: $9,2812025: $10,5212026: $10,5212027: $10,9272016202020232027

▲ +94% 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 $4,319 a year off the tax roll. Read the tax figures with that in mind.

Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home

1.40% — the statutory rate0%0.4%0.8%1.2%
$11,065pays now $11,184at the full rate

2312 Locust St is assessed at $799K but pays $11,065 a year — about 99% of the $11,184 it would owe at the statutory rate, because its new-construction value is abated.

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has tracked the Philadelphia market, compounding +6.1% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 192 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $192 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+6.1%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+92%
since 2016
Net rental yield
2.3%
est., after tax carry
Total return
+8.4%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+5.4%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-0.4 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 18 arm's-length sales since 2000. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 13 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$1.0M$2.0M20002005201020152020
18arm's-length sales since 2000
0times the typical home has sold
4most sales for a single property
13homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 21 parcels

Owner-occupied: 11Investor / LLC: 8Absentee individual: 2 21parcels
  • Owner-occupied 11
  • Investor / LLC 8
  • Absentee individual 2

Value distribution today

6 parcels1 parcels2 parcels6 parcels2 parcels2 parcels2 parcels
$367K$1.2M+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
2300 Locust Investors Lp55$2.1Mphila.gov ↗
Spruce Street Holdings I33$2.5Mphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 21 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$1.0M$2.0M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median

Worth a look

AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
2300 LOCUST ST Investor / LLC $440K 2/2 1,266 1900 0
2300 LOCUST ST Owner pulled a electrical permit in 2011. Investor / LLC $422K 2/2 1,199 1900 0 rented
2300 LOCUST ST Investor / LLC $367K 2/2 993 1900 0
2300 LOCUST ST Investor / LLC $435K 2/2 1,188 1900 0
2300 LOCUST ST Investor / LLC $405K 2/2 1,133 1900 0
2302 LOCUST ST Bought for $1.1M in 2022. Owner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2023. Owner-occupied $1.0M 4/2 2,615 1800 1
2304 LOCUST ST Owner pulled a alteration permit in 2017. Investor / LLC $919K —/— 2,390 1800 0 rented
2306 LOCUST ST Owner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2026. Investor / LLC $842K —/— 2,390 1800 0 4 viol
2308 LOCUST ST Owner pulled a plumbing permit in 2017. Investor / LLC $781K —/— 2,390 1880 0 rented
2310 LOCUST ST Bought for $500K in 2002, built new under a 2026 permit, sold for $975K in 2008. Owner-occupied $1.0M 4/— 2,390 1800 2
2312 LOCUST ST built new under a 2014 permit (tax-abated). Owner-occupied $799K —/— 2,390 1800 0 rentedabated
2314 LOCUST ST Traded 2×: $300K in 2000 → $718K in 2005 (+139%). Owner-occupied $799K —/— 2,447 1800 2
2316 LOCUST ST Bought for $252K in 2003, major alteration permit in 2012, sold for $375K in 2015 (+49%). Owner-occupied $574K 2/1 717 1800 3
2318 LOCUST ST Owner-occupied $675K 2/1 876 1800 0
2319 LOCUST ST Owner pulled a administrative permit in 2016. Owner-occupied $1.5M —/1 2,368 1970 0
2320 LOCUST ST Owner-occupied $686K 2/1 944 1800 0
2322 LOCUST ST Bought for $288K in 2004, alteration permit in 2011, sold for $468K in 2023 (+63%). Owner-occupied $473K 2/1 675 1860 4
2323 LOCUST ST Traded 2×: $475K in 2005 → $475K in 2005 (+0%). Owner-occupied $806K 3/1 1,152 1970 2
2325 LOCUST ST Owner-occupied $806K 3/1 1,152 1970 0
2327 LOCUST ST Traded 3×: $393K in 2002 → $590K in 2005 (+50%). Absentee individual $806K 3/1 1,152 1970 3
2329 LOCUST ST Bought for $681K in 2013. Owner pulled a mechanical permit in 2018. Absentee individual $1.2M 2/2 1,672 1970 1

Neighborhood

Median income
$204K
household
Own vs. rent
45%
owner-occupied
Median age
32.8
residents
Median rent
$2K
gross monthly

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.