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Who owns your block

300 block of St James Pl

A mixed-ownership block: 50% owner-occupied, 0% investor-held.

The typical home here is up 56% since 2016, now about $1.8M. Property taxes are climbing about 4% a year.

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
$1.8M
$1.8M–$1.8M
ZIP median $419K
Price / sq ft
$519
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
8.2×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$26K
typical · up to $26K
city ≈$3K/yr
Median built
1968
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
50%
2 of 4
city 41%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+3%
value · tax +$672
5 years
+18%
value · tax +$4K
10 years
+56%
value · tax +$9K

Assessed-value change for the typical home. Philadelphia taxes a flat 1.3998% of value, so the bill moves with it.

How the block compares

The typical home here is $1.8M — about 8.2× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19106 median of $419K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19106 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19106Philadelphia
Median home value$1.8M$419K$223K
Owner-occupied50%33%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 16 reported crimes (2 violent) and 188 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
16
2 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
188
21 still open

Most reported crimes

Thefts4
Motor Vehicle Theft3
Burglary Residential2
Fraud2
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief2
Aggravated Assault Firearm1

Top 311 complaints

Graffiti Removal32
Shoveling21
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection15
Street Light Outage15
Maintenance Complaint14
Salting13

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
General George A Mccall
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$1.0M$2.0M$1.8M2016: $1.2M2017: $1.2M2018: $1.2M2019: $1.5M2020: $1.5M2021: $1.5M2022: $1.5M2023: $1.6M2024: $1.6M2025: $1.8M2026: $1.8M2027: $1.8M2016202020232027

▲ +56% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$12,500$25,000$24,7352016: $16,0842017: $16,0842018: $16,0842019: $20,2802020: $21,2202021: $21,2202022: $21,2202023: $21,7042024: $21,7042025: $24,0632026: $24,0632027: $24,7352016202020232027

▲ +54% since 2016 · ~+4%/yr

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +4.1% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 156 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $156 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+4.1%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+56%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+4.1%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+1.1%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-2.4 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.

Who owns it

Ownership of 4 parcels

Owner-occupied: 2Absentee individual: 2 4parcels
  • Owner-occupied 2
  • Absentee individual 2

Value distribution today

1 parcels1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$1.8M$1.8M+

No multi-home or corporate owners on this block — every home has its own owner.

House by house

All 4 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
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
314 SAINT JAMES PL Absentee individual $1.8M 4/1 3,518 1968 0
316 SAINT JAMES PL Owner-occupied $1.8M 4/1 3,488 1968 0
318 SAINT JAMES PL Owner-occupied $1.8M 4/1 3,482 1968 0
320 SAINT JAMES PL Absentee individual $1.8M 4/1 3,522 1968 0

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.