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Who owns your block

400 block of N 20th St

A mostly owner-occupied block: 67% of homes are lived in by their owners, with 1 open code violation.

The typical home here is up 30% since 2016, now about $591K. Property taxes are climbing about 4% a year and the increases are speeding up.

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
$591K
$485K–$9.8M
ZIP median $457K
Price / sq ft
$398
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
2.7×
the city median
city $223K
Recent sale
$850K
1 sold in 2yr
assessed $591K
Tax / yr
$8K
typical · up to $71K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
4 of 9
$82K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
67%
6 of 9
city 41%
Rentals
11%
1 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
1
L&I code
▲ block 11% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
1
1 home · ZBA & boards
block 11% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+0%
value · tax +$254
5 years
+2%
value · tax +$763
10 years
+30%
value · tax +$3K

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 $591K — about 2.7× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19130 median of $457K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19130 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19130Philadelphia
Median home value$591K$457K$223K
Owner-occupied11%37%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 107 reported crimes (18 violent) and 95 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
107
18 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
95
18 still open

Most reported crimes

Thefts53
Other Assaults15
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief9
Fraud7
All Other Offenses6
Theft from Vehicle6

Top 311 complaints

Information Request14
Salting10
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection9
Traffic (Other)7
Illegal Dumping6
Dangerous Sidewalk5

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
Laura W Waring
1801 Green St · 170 students
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$500K$1.0M$591K2016: $454K2017: $454K2018: $454K2019: $563K2020: $582K2021: $582K2022: $582K2023: $523K2024: $523K2025: $591K2026: $591K2027: $591K2016202020232027

▲ +30% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$5,000$10,000$8,2732016: $5,3082017: $5,3082018: $5,3082019: $7,3182020: $7,5102021: $7,5102022: $7,5102023: $5,3192024: $6,2072025: $6,8732026: $8,0192027: $8,2732016202020232027

▲ +56% since 2016 · ~+4%/yr

4
4 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 $81,999 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%
$70,863pays now $137,684at the full rate

407 N 20th St is assessed at $9.8M but pays $70,863 a year — about 51% of the $137,684 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 +2.4% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 130 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $130 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+2.4%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+30%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+2.4%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
-0.6%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-4.1 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 15 arm's-length sales since 2002. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 3 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$5.0M$10M20052010201520202025
15arm's-length sales since 2002
1times the typical home has sold
4most sales for a single property
3homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 9 parcels

Owner-occupied: 6Investor / LLC: 1Absentee individual: 1Vacant: 1 9parcels
  • Owner-occupied 6
  • Investor / LLC 1
  • Absentee individual 1
  • Vacant 1

Value distribution today

1 parcels4 parcels1 parcels0 parcels1 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$485K$969K+

The block's largest owner, Granary Acquisition Partn, carries 1 open violation across 2 properties it owns around the city.

OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Granary Acquisition Partn (individual)22$11Mphila.gov ↗
Homebase Llc11$827Kphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 9 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$10M$20M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
407R N 20TH ST sold $7.6M (2018); 2 L&I violations (2019). Vacant $678K —/— 1
407 N 20TH ST built new under a 2020 permit (tax-abated). Absentee individual $9.8M —/— 78,672 1926 0 rentedabated1 viol
417 N 20TH ST Bought for $350K in 2003, plumbing permit in 2012, sold for $585K in 2014 (+149%). Owner-occupied $591K 4/2 1,485 1900 4
419 N 20TH ST Owner-occupied $485K —/— 1,485 1900 0
421 N 20TH ST Bought for $335K in 2011, plumbing permit in 2011, sold for $850K in 2025 (+154%). Owner-occupied $591K 4/2 1,782 1900 3
423 N 20TH ST Owner-occupied $591K —/— 1,485 1900 0 abated
425 N 20TH ST Bought for $540K in 2006, built new under a 2021 permit, sold for $710K in 2021. Owner-occupied $591K 4/2 1,485 1900 4
427 N 20TH ST built new under a 2017 permit (tax-abated), sold for $300K in 2018. Investor / LLC $827K 4/2 1,786 1900 1 abated
429 N 20TH ST Bought for $475K in 2023, built new under a 2023 permit (tax-abated), sold for $990K in 2024. Owner-occupied $969K 4/3 2,316 1900 2 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)

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.