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Who owns your block

3900 block of Spring Garden St

A mixed-ownership block: 50% owner-occupied, 13% investor-held, with 13 open code violations and 1 home behind $3,645 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 198% since 2016, now about $440K. Property taxes are climbing about 6% 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
$440K
$217K–$1.3M
ZIP median $211K
Price / sq ft
$230
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
2.0×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$5K
typical · up to $9K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
2 of 8
$39K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
50%
4 of 8
city 41%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
13
L&I code
▲ block 13% · city 5%
Back taxes
$4K
1 of 8 behind
▲ block 13% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
1
1 home · ZBA & boards
block 13% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+2%
value · tax −$1K
5 years
+84%
value · tax +$962
10 years
+198%
value · tax +$2K

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 $440K — about 2.0× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19104 median of $211K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19104 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19104Philadelphia
Median home value$440K$211K$223K
Owner-occupied38%18%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 193 reported crimes (63 violent) and 292 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
193
63 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
292
46 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults49
Thefts42
All Other Offenses24
Theft from Vehicle16
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief16
Fraud11

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection65
Maintenance Complaint64
Street Defect22
Sanitation Violation21
Illegal Dumping18
Salting16

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 · K-4
Samuel Powel
3610 Warren St · 342 students
Middle · 5-8
Science Leadership Academy Middle School
3610 Warren St · 351 students
High · 9-12
West Philadelphia HS
4901 Chestnut St · 729 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$440K2016: $148K2017: $148K2018: $148K2019: $230K2020: $239K2021: $239K2022: $239K2023: $287K2024: $287K2025: $438K2026: $433K2027: $440K2016202020232027

▲ +198% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$2,500$5,000$3,4232016: $1,7232017: $1,7232018: $1,7232019: $2,3922020: $2,4612021: $2,4612022: $2,4612023: $2,8212024: $2,8212025: $4,4932026: $4,4932027: $3,4232016202020232027

▲ +99% since 2016 · ~+6%/yr

2
2 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 $39,414 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 $18,477at the full rate

3902a-14 Spring Garden St is assessed at $1.3M but pays $0 a year — about 0% of the $18,477 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 +10.4% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510050020162019202220252027This block 298 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $298 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced the market.

Annualized return
+10.4%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+198%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+10.4%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+7.4%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
+3.9 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 9 arm's-length sales since 2001. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 3 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$500K$1.0M2005201020152020
9arm's-length sales since 2001
1times the typical home has sold
3most sales for a single property
3homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 8 parcels

Owner-occupied: 4Investor / LLC: 1Absentee individual: 3 8parcels
  • Owner-occupied 4
  • Investor / LLC 1
  • Absentee individual 3

Value distribution today

2 parcels3 parcels0 parcels1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$217K$1.2M+

The block's largest owner, Big Daisy Corp, carries 18 open violations across 4 properties it owns around the city.

OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Big Daisy Corp14$3.4Mphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 8 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$5.0M$10M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
3902A-14 SPRING GARDEN ST Investor / LLC $1.3M 10,502 1950 0 abated
3902-14 SPRING GARDEN ST built new (tax-abated), sold for $400K in 2010. Absentee individual $1.2M 62,886 1950 1 abated13 viol
3907 SPRING GARDEN ST Traded 3×: $165K in 2007 → $640K in 2024 (+288%). Absentee individual $668K 3,450 1930 3
3932 SPRING GARDEN ST Traded 2×: $40K in 2001 → $345K in 2022 (+763%). Owner-occupied $441K 1,567 1930 2
3934 SPRING GARDEN ST Owner-occupied $329K 1,639 1930 1
3936 SPRING GARDEN ST Traded 2×: $177K in 2005 → $194K in 2014 (+10%). Owner-occupied $360K 1,567 1930 2
3938 SPRING GARDEN ST Absentee individual $439K 1,567 1930 0
3939 SPRING GARDEN ST Owner-occupied $217K 910 1930 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.