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Who owns your block

2500 block of South St

A mostly owner-occupied block: 88% of homes are lived in by their owners.

The typical home here is up 89% since 2016, now about $776K. Property taxes are climbing about 12% 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
$776K
$415K–$2.6M
ZIP median $364K
Price / sq ft
$407
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
3.5×
the city median
city $223K
Recent sale
$691K
1 sold in 2yr
assessed $776K
Tax / yr
$10K
typical · up to $14K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
6 of 26
$87K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
88%
23 of 26
city 41%
Rentals
12%
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
2 homes · ZBA & boards
block 8% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+1%
value · tax +$439
5 years
+41%
value · tax +$5K
10 years
+89%
value · tax +$7K

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 $776K — about 3.5× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19146 median of $364K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19146 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19146Philadelphia
Median home value$776K$364K$223K
Owner-occupied50%29%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 55 reported crimes (3 violent) and 261 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
55
3 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
261
22 still open

Most reported crimes

Thefts16
Theft from Vehicle13
Motor Vehicle Theft7
All Other Offenses5
Fraud4
Burglary Residential3

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection49
Salting48
Graffiti Removal40
Street Defect22
Other (Streets)12
Information Request11

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$776K2016: $410K2017: $410K2018: $410K2019: $565K2020: $534K2021: $534K2022: $552K2023: $652K2024: $652K2025: $767K2026: $767K2027: $776K2016202020232027

▲ +89% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$5,000$10,000$9,7732016: $2,7632017: $2,7632018: $2,7632019: $3,0912020: $3,5692021: $3,5692022: $5,0012023: $5,3692024: $8,1692025: $9,3342026: $9,3342027: $9,7732016202020232027

▲ +254% since 2016 · ~+12%/yr

6
6 properties 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 $87,269 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%
$0pays now $37,082at the full rate

2501-15 South St is assessed at $2.6M but pays $0 a year — about 0% of the $37,082 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% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 189 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $189 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+6%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+89%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+6%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+3%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-0.5 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 19 arm's-length sales since 2000. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 15 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$2.5M$5.0M20002005201020152020
19arm's-length sales since 2000
0times the typical home has sold
5most sales for a single property
15homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 26 parcels

Owner-occupied: 23Investor / LLC: 1Absentee individual: 2 26parcels
  • Owner-occupied 23
  • Investor / LLC 1
  • Absentee individual 2

Value distribution today

1 parcels1 parcels2 parcels8 parcels6 parcels1 parcels7 parcels
$415K$1.0M+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Appian Holdings Llc11$739Kphila.gov ↗
Wp Spruce Mg Llc11$597Kphila.gov ↗

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).

Every house's assessed value, 2016–2027 — each line is one home

$0$2.5M$5.0M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median

Worth a look

AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
2501-15 SOUTH ST demolished in 2010, then sold for $3.5M in 2008. Absentee individual $2.6M —/— 4,400 1900 1 abated
2502 SOUTH ST Owner-occupied $823K 3/2 2,035 2013 0
2504 SOUTH ST Owner-occupied $1.0M 3/2 2,468 2013 0
2506 SOUTH ST Owner-occupied $823K 3/2 2,035 2013 0
2508 SOUTH ST Owner-occupied $1.0M 3/2 2,467 2013 0
2510 SOUTH ST Owner-occupied $823K 3/2 2,035 2013 0
2512 SOUTH ST Owner-occupied $1.0M 3/2 2,468 2013 0 rented
2514 SOUTH ST Owner-occupied $1.0M 3/2 2,586 2013 0
2516 SOUTH ST Owner-occupied $781K 3/2 1,535 2013 0
2517 SOUTH ST Absentee individual $732K 3/1 1,424 1915 0
2518 SOUTH ST Traded 2×: $189K in 2000 → $470K in 2016 (+149%). Owner-occupied $614K 4/2 1,569 1915 2
2519 SOUTH ST Owner-occupied $770K 4/2 1,820 1915 1
2521 SOUTH ST Owner-occupied $755K —/— 1,696 1915 1
2522 SOUTH ST built new under a 2019 permit (tax-abated), sold for $950K in 2018. Owner-occupied $1.4M 6/5 4,994 1915 1 abated
2523 SOUTH ST Owner-occupied $415K —/— 1,179 1915 0 abated
2524 SOUTH ST Bought for $550K in 2019. Owner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2022. Investor / LLC $739K —/— 1,840 1915 1
2525 SOUTH ST Owner-occupied $709K —/— 2,181 1915 0 abated
2526 SOUTH ST Traded 3×: $200K in 2007 → $460K in 2012 (+130%). Owner-occupied $758K —/— 1,863 1915 3
2527-29 SOUTH ST Owner-occupied $1.0M —/— 2,582 1911 0
2528 SOUTH ST Bought for $440K in 2019, built new (tax-abated), sold for $825K in 2020. Owner-occupied $896K 3/2 1,666 1915 2 abated
2530 SOUTH ST Traded 5×: $250K in 2004 → $691K in 2024 (+176%). Owner-occupied $756K 4/2 1,596 1915 5
2531 SOUTH ST Appeal granted with conditions (2007). Owner-occupied $838K —/— 3,042 1915 0
2532 SOUTH ST Owner-occupied $715K —/— 1,635 1915 1
2534 SOUTH ST Owner-occupied $747K —/— 1,824 1915 0 abated
2536 SOUTH ST Owner-occupied $597K —/— 1,665 1915 1 rented
2538 SOUTH ST Owner-occupied $575K —/— 2,839 1915 0 rented

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.