Who owns your block
3900 block of Vaux St
A mostly owner-occupied block: 79% of homes are lived in by their owners.
The typical home here is up 73% since 2016, now about $748K. Property taxes are climbing about 4% 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 $748K — about 3.4× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19129 median of $326K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19129 and across Philadelphia.
| This block | ZIP 19129 | Philadelphia | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $748K | $326K | $223K |
| Owner-occupied | 79% | 50% | 41% |
Safety & quality of life
Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 4 reported crimes (1 violent) and 18 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
- $748K typical home, up +73% since 2016
- Tax bill $5,747 to $8,440 a year, +4%/yr and compounding
- Whole block: $11M assessed, $120,772/yr to the city, about $8,627 per home
Median assessed value · 2016–2027
▲ +73% since 2016
Estimated property tax · per home, per year
▲ +47% since 2016 · ~+4%/yr
Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home
3950 Vaux St is assessed at $1.2M but pays $0 a year — about 0% of the $17,143 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 lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +5.1% 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 $173 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 7 arm's-length sales since 2004. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 9 have not changed hands at all.
Every recorded sale · price & date
Who owns it
Ownership of 14 parcels
- Owner-occupied 11
- Absentee individual 2
- Vacant 1
Value distribution today
No multi-home or corporate owners on this block — every home has its own owner.
House by house
All 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3900 VAUX ST | Owner-occupied | $691K | 4/— | 2,200 | 1935 | 0 | |
| 3901 VAUX ST | Owner-occupied | $921K | 4/— | 3,350 | 1935 | 0 | |
| 3902 VAUX ST | Owner-occupied | $631K | 4/— | 2,200 | 1935 | 0 | |
| 3903 VAUX ST | Owner-occupied | $688K | 4/— | 2,240 | 1935 | 1 | |
| 3904 VAUX ST | Owner-occupied | $920K | 5/— | 2,500 | 1935 | 1 | |
| 3905 VAUX ST TradedTraded 2×: $555K in 2019 → $1.1M in 2024 (+95%). | Owner-occupied | $693K | 5/3 | 1,760 | 1935 | 2 | |
| 3906-08 VAUX ST | Owner-occupied | $803K | 4/— | 2,342 | 1935 | 0 | |
| 3907 VAUX ST | Absentee individual | $613K | 4/— | 1,536 | 1935 | 0 | |
| 3909 VAUX ST | Owner-occupied | $913K | 2/2 | 2,765 | 1935 | 0 | |
| 3910 VAUX ST | Owner-occupied | $688K | 4/— | 2,010 | 1935 | 0 | |
| 3911 VAUX ST TradedTraded 2×: $765K in 2004 → $700K in 2019 (-8%). | Owner-occupied | $1.3M | 5/4 | 3,522 | 1935 | 2 | |
| 3917 VAUX ST | Owner-occupied | $877K | 4/2 | 2,940 | 1935 | 1 | |
| 3937 VAUX ST | Vacant | $85K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 3950 VAUX ST | Absentee individual | $1.2M | 4/2 | 5,645 | 1925 | 0 | 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)