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Who owns your block

2800 block of W Somerset St

A mixed-ownership block: 58% owner-occupied, 17% investor-held, with 12 open code violations.

The typical home here is up 173% since 2016, now about $124K. Property taxes are climbing about 9% 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
$124K
$17K–$325K
ZIP median $79K
Price / sq ft
$85
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
0.6×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$2K
typical · up to $5K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
3 of 12
$6K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
58%
7 of 12
city 41%
Rentals
17%
2 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
12
L&I code
▲ block 17% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
1
1 home · ZBA & boards
block 8% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+23%
value · tax +$110
5 years
+198%
value · tax +$858
10 years
+173%
value · tax +$760

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 $124K — about 0.6× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19132 median of $79K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19132 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19132Philadelphia
Median home value$124K$79K$223K
Owner-occupied33%26%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 107 reported crimes (42 violent) and 198 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
107
42 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
198
69 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults24
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief16
All Other Offenses14
Motor Vehicle Theft11
Aggravated Assault No Firearm7
Fraud7

Top 311 complaints

Maintenance Complaint61
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection29
Abandoned Vehicle19
Other (Streets)13
Dangerous Building Complaint9
License Complaint8

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
Ethel D Allen
3200 W Lehigh Ave · 274 students
High · 9-12
Strawberry Mansion HS
3133 Ridge Ave · 275 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$100K$200K$124K2016: $46K2017: $46K2018: $46K2019: $40K2020: $42K2021: $42K2022: $42K2023: $76K2024: $76K2025: $101K2026: $101K2027: $124K2016202020232027

▲ +173% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$1,000$2,000$1,2492016: $4892017: $4892018: $4892019: $3792020: $3912021: $3912022: $3912023: $1,0022024: $1,0022025: $1,1392026: $1,1392027: $1,2492016202020232027

▲ +155% since 2016 · ~+9%/yr

3
3 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 $5,599 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%
$342pays now $1,741at the full rate

2807 W Somerset St is assessed at $124K but pays $342 a year — about 20% of the $1,741 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 +9.6% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

8910050020162019202220252027This block 273 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $273 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced the market.

Annualized return
+9.6%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+173%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+9.6%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+6.6%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
+3.1 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 6 arm's-length sales since 1997. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 7 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$50K$100K20002004200820122016
6arm's-length sales since 1997
0times the typical home has sold
2most sales for a single property
7homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 12 parcels

Owner-occupied: 7Investor / LLC: 2Absentee individual: 2Vacant: 1 12parcels
  • Owner-occupied 7
  • Investor / LLC 2
  • Absentee individual 2
  • Vacant 1

Value distribution today

1 parcels0 parcels1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels10 parcels
$17K$129K+

The block's largest owner, Jubilee Homes Llc, carries 2 open violations across 6 properties it owns around the city.

OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Jubilee Homes Llc16$793Kphila.gov ↗
Marlowe 2-2805 Llc11$124Kphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 12 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
2801 W SOMERSET ST Absentee individual $124K 4/1 1,470 1925 1
2803 W SOMERSET ST Owner-occupied $124K 3/1 1,470 1925 1
2805 W SOMERSET ST Investor / LLC $124K 4/1 1,470 1925 0 rented
2807 W SOMERSET ST built new (tax-abated), sold for $40K in 1997. Owner-occupied $124K 3/1 1,470 1925 1 abated
2809 W SOMERSET ST Owner-occupied $126K 3/1 1,470 1925 1
2811 W SOMERSET ST Owner-occupied $129K 3/1 1,470 1925 0
2813 W SOMERSET ST Vacant $17K —/— 0
2815 W SOMERSET ST Owner-occupied $119K 5/1 1,470 1925 0 abated
2817 W SOMERSET ST Owner-occupied $119K 5/1 1,470 1925 0 abated
2819 W SOMERSET ST Absentee individual $59K 5/1 1,470 1925 0 6 viol
2821 W SOMERSET ST Traded 2×: $40K in 2017 → $10K in 2017 (-75%). Investor / LLC $119K 5/1 1,470 1925 2 rented
2823-25 W SOMERSET ST Appeal granted with conditions (2025). Owner-occupied $325K —/— 3,906 1925 0 6 viol

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.