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Who owns your block

2500 block of Kern St

A mostly owner-occupied block: 69% of homes are lived in by their owners, with 1 open code violation and 1 home behind $17,493 on taxes.

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
$216K
$66K–$540K
Recent sale
$405K
4 sold in 2yr
assessed $216K
Median built
1875
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
69%
18 of 26
Open violations
1
L&I code
▼ block 4% · city 5%
Back taxes
$17K
1 of 26 behind
▼ block 4% · city 9%

Schools

The public schools this block is zoned for — its official School District of Philadelphia catchments.

Elementary & Middle · K-8
Henry A Brown
1946 E Sergeant St · 319 students
High
Kensington Campus

Catchment assignments from the School District of Philadelphia via City of Philadelphia open data. Confirm with the District before enrollment decisions.

Who owns it

Ownership of 26 parcels

Owner-occupied: 18Investor / LLC: 1Absentee individual: 4Vacant: 3 26parcels
  • Owner-occupied 18
  • Investor / LLC 1
  • Absentee individual 4
  • Vacant 3

Value distribution today

3 parcels3 parcels8 parcels6 parcels2 parcels0 parcels4 parcels
$66K$461K+

The block's largest owner, Claire Mencke Revocable Trust, carries 1 open violation across 5 properties it owns around the city.

OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Claire Mencke Revocable Trust15$876Kphila.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 26 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).

AddressOwnershipValue & trendSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
2543 KERN ST Owner-occupied $193K 1875 0
2545 KERN ST Owner-occupied $193K 1875 0
2546 KERN ST Owner-occupied $151K 1875 0
2547 KERN ST Owner-occupied $460K 2016 0
2548 KERN ST Owner-occupied $303K 1875 0
2549 KERN ST Owner-occupied $461K 2016 0
2550 KERN ST Owner-occupied $213K 1875 0
2552 KERN ST Owner-occupied $274K 1875 0
2553 KERN ST Vacant $66K 0
2554 KERN ST Absentee individual $216K 1875 0
2555 KERN ST Vacant $121K 0
2556 KERN ST Owner-occupied $274K 1875 0
2557 KERN ST Vacant $102K 0
2558 KERN ST Owner-occupied $153K 1875 0
2559 KERN ST Owner-occupied $540K 2016 0
2560 KERN ST Investor / LLC $216K 1875 0 1 viol
2561 KERN ST Owner-occupied $525K 2016 0
2562 KERN ST Absentee individual $216K 1875 0
2563 KERN ST Owner-occupied $275K 1875 0
2564 KERN ST Owner-occupied $236K 1875 0
2565 KERN ST Owner-occupied $278K 1875 0
2566 KERN ST Owner-occupied $212K 1875 0
2567 KERN ST Absentee individual $253K 1875 0
2568 KERN ST Absentee individual $216K 1875 0
2570 KERN ST Owner-occupied $151K 1875 0
2572 KERN ST Owner-occupied $314K 1875 0

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.

Generated 2026-07-07 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.