Who owns your block
2500 block of Townsend St
A mixed-ownership block: 44% owner-occupied, 0% investor-held.
The typical home here is up 169% since 2016, now about $269K. Property taxes are climbing about 6% a year though the increases have eased lately.
- Owner-occupied
- Investor / LLC
- Absentee
- Vacant
- Has violations
By the Numbers
How fast it's moving
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.
- 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 $269K — about 1.2× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19125 median of $334K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19125 and across Philadelphia.
| This block | ZIP 19125 | Philadelphia | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $269K | $334K | $223K |
| Owner-occupied | 22% | 32% | 41% |
Safety & quality of life
Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 69 reported crimes (18 violent) and 333 resident 311 requests to the city.
Most reported crimes
Top 311 complaints
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
- $269K typical home, up +169% since 2016
- Tax bill $1,093 to $2,168 a year, +6%/yr and compounding
- Whole block: $2.6M assessed, $24,929/yr to the city, about $2,770 per home
Median assessed value · 2016–2027
▲ +169% since 2016
Estimated property tax · per home, per year
▲ +98% since 2016 · ~+6%/yr
Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home
2508 Townsend St is assessed at $538K but pays $1,506 a year — about 20% of the $7,531 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 beaten the Philadelphia market, compounding +9.4% 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 $269 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 12 arm's-length sales since 2002. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 1 has not changed hands at all.
Every recorded sale · price & date
Who owns it
Ownership of 9 parcels
- Owner-occupied 4
- Absentee individual 5
Value distribution today
No multi-home or corporate owners on this block — every home has its own owner.
House by house
All 9 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
| Address | Ownership | Value & trend | Bd/Ba | Sq ft | Built | Sales | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2503 TOWNSEND ST TradedTraded 2×: $55K in 2012 → $150K in 2022 (+173%). | Owner-occupied | $283K | 1/1 | 702 | 1875 | 2 | |
| 2505 TOWNSEND ST | Absentee individual | $303K | 2/1 | 702 | 1875 | 1 | rented |
| 2507 TOWNSEND ST | Owner-occupied | $235K | 2/1 | 702 | 1875 | 1 | |
| 2508 TOWNSEND ST New constructionBought for $85K in 2015, built new (tax-abated). | Absentee individual | $538K | 2/1 | 2,206 | 2017 | 1 | abated |
| 2509 TOWNSEND ST Frequently tradedTraded 3×: $55K in 2004 → $232K in 2021 (+322%). | Absentee individual | $269K | 2/1 | 702 | 1875 | 3 | |
| 2510 TOWNSEND ST | Absentee individual | $24K | —/— | 747 | 1906 | 0 | |
| 2511 TOWNSEND ST TradedTraded 2×: $180K in 2018 → $240K in 2022 (+33%). | Absentee individual | $465K | —/— | 1,512 | 1905 | 2 | |
| 2514 TOWNSEND ST | Owner-occupied | $255K | 3/1 | 900 | 1875 | 1 | |
| 2522 TOWNSEND ST New constructionbuilt new (tax-abated), sold for $40K in 2003. | Owner-occupied | $253K | 3/1 | 900 | 1875 | 1 | abated |
Neighborhood
Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.
Generated 2026-07-08 from public City of Philadelphia records · Download this block's data (CSV)