Who owns your block
3900 block of Spruce St
A mixed-ownership block: 21% owner-occupied, 5% investor-held, with 9 open code violations and 2 homes behind $12,408 on taxes.
The typical home here is up 18% since 2016, now about $828K.
- 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 $828K — about 3.7× 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 block | ZIP 19104 | Philadelphia | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $828K | $211K | $223K |
| Owner-occupied | 0% | 18% | 41% |
Safety & quality of life
Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 91 reported crimes (15 violent) and 52 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
- $828K typical home, up +18% since 2016
- Whole block: $60M assessed, $93,859/yr to the city, about $4,940 per home
Median assessed value · 2016–2027
▲ +18% since 2016
Estimated property tax · per home, per year
Not enough history yet.
Who really pays — each home's tax bill as a share of its value
Philadelphia charges every home the same 1.40% of its assessed value. On this block, 8 of 19 homes pay that full rate — and 11 pay less, because abatements and exemptions shrink the taxed value. Each dot is one home; the further left, the less of its value it pays. Hover a dot for the house.
The starkest example: 3901-03 Spruce St is assessed at $31M but pays $0 a year — about 0% of the $430,262 it would owe at the full rate, because its new-construction value is abated for 10 years.
The block as an asset
Read like a financial asset, this block has lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +1.5% 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 $118 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed 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 2 arm's-length sales since 2008. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 17 have not changed hands at all.
Every recorded sale · price & date
Who owns it
Ownership of 19 parcels
- Owner-occupied 4
- Absentee individual 15
Value distribution today
| Owner | On block | Owns citywide | Portfolio value | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3942 Spruce St Associates | 1 | 1 | $828K | phila.gov ↗ · registry ↗ |
The mailing address is where the assessor sends the tax bill — for an LLC, often the closest public record gets to the person behind it. "Registry" searches the owner's name in state incorporation records (OpenCorporates).
House by house
All 19 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
Worth a look
| Address | Ownership | Value & trend | Sq ft | Built | Sales | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3900-02 SPRUCE ST | Absentee individual | $1.5M | 4,200 | 1925 | 0 | rentedabated |
| 3901-03 SPRUCE ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2023 permit (tax-abated). | Absentee individual | $31M | 294,290 | 1970 | 0 | rentedabated |
| 3904 SPRUCE ST | Owner-occupied | $843K | 5,500 | 1915 | 0 | |
| 3905 SPRUCE ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2025 permit (tax-abated). | Absentee individual | $751K | 21,426 | 1876 | 0 | abated |
| 3906 SPRUCE ST | Absentee individual | $480K | 5,965 | 1925 | 0 | rentedabated |
| 3907-15 SPRUCE ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2020 permit (tax-abated). | Absentee individual | $15M | 76,300 | 1970 | 0 | rentedabated |
| 3908-10 SPRUCE ST | Absentee individual | $1.2M | 6,100 | 1915 | 0 | rentedabated |
| 3912-14 SPRUCE ST | Absentee individual | $1.5M | 7,114 | 1915 | 0 | 4 viol |
| 3916-18 SPRUCE ST | Absentee individual | $696K | 6,600 | 1920 | 0 | rentedabated |
| 3920 SPRUCE ST | Absentee individual | $662K | 3,780 | 1915 | 0 | |
| 3922 SPRUCE ST HistoryAppeal complete (2024). | Owner-occupied | $500K | 4,875 | 1915 | 0 | tax lien |
| 3924 SPRUCE ST | Absentee individual | $843K | 3,900 | 1915 | 0 | rented |
| 3926 SPRUCE ST New constructionbuilt new (tax-abated). | Absentee individual | $510K | 3,900 | 1930 | 0 | abated1 viol |
| 3928 SPRUCE ST New constructionbuilt new (tax-abated), sold for $1.4M in 2008. | Owner-occupied | $743K | 3,900 | 1915 | 1 | abated1 viol |
| 3930 SPRUCE ST | Absentee individual | $756K | 3,900 | 1915 | 0 | rented |
| 3932 SPRUCE ST | Absentee individual | $756K | 3,780 | 1915 | 0 | rented |
| 3934 SPRUCE ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2018 permit (tax-abated). | Absentee individual | $853K | 11,700 | 1915 | 0 | rentedabated |
| 3940 SPRUCE ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2025 permit (tax-abated). | Absentee individual | $1.3M | 42,000 | 2011 | 0 | abated3 viol |
| 3942 SPRUCE ST | Owner-occupied | $828K | 3,525 | 1975 | 1 | tax lien |
Neighborhood
Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.
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This is the 3900 block of Spruce St,
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19 homes. Every deed, permit, L&I violation, tax bill and sale the city has on file — one report.
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Generated 2026-07-08 from public City of Philadelphia records · Download this block's data (CSV)