Who owns your block
400 block of N 55th St
A mixed-ownership block: 58% owner-occupied, 8% investor-held, with 3 homes behind $17,841 on taxes.
The typical home here is up 153% since 2016, now about $98K. Property taxes are climbing about 2% a year and the increases are speeding up.
- 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 $98K — about 0.4× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19139 median of $133K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19139 and across Philadelphia.
| This block | ZIP 19139 | Philadelphia | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $98K | $133K | $223K |
| Owner-occupied | 50% | 32% | 41% |
Safety & quality of life
Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 152 reported crimes (81 violent) and 221 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
- $98K typical home, up +153% since 2016
- Tax bill $131 to $155 a year, +2%/yr and compounding
- Whole block: $1.1M assessed, $6,900/yr to the city, about $575 per home
Median assessed value · 2016–2027
▲ +153% since 2016
Estimated property tax · per home, per year
▲ +18% since 2016 · ~+2%/yr
Who really pays
Philadelphia charges every home the same 1.40% of its assessed value. Abatements and exemptions shrink what some homes are taxed on — here's this block:
- 401 N 55th Stexemption0.00%$0/yr on $12K
- 409 N 55th Sttax-abated new construction0.00%$0/yr on $95K
- 411 N 55th Sttax-abated new construction0.00%$0/yr on $95K
- 415 N 55th Sttax-abated new construction0.00%$0/yr on $61K
- 413 N 55th Sttax-abated new construction0.01%$14/yr on $101K
- …and 2 more paying under the full rate — the gold-ringed bubbles in the makeup chart
The starkest example: 405 N 55th St is assessed at $117K but pays $238 a year — about 15% of the $1,638 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 beaten the Philadelphia market, compounding +8.8% 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 $253 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced 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 10 arm's-length sales since 2000. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 7 have not changed hands at all.
Every recorded sale · price & date
Who owns it
Ownership of 12 parcels
- Owner-occupied 7
- Investor / LLC 1
- Absentee individual 2
- Vacant 2
Value distribution today
| Owner | On block | Owns citywide | Portfolio value | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shengguo Dong (individual) | 2 | 2 | $144K | phila.gov ↗ |
| S J Aurelius Ventures LLC | 1 | 1 | $103K | 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 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 401 N 55TH ST | Vacant | $12K | —/— | — | — | 0 | tax lien |
| 402 N 55TH ST TradedTraded 2×: $950K in 2025 → $125K in 2025 (-87%). | Investor / LLC | $103K | 3/1 | 1,008 | 1925 | 2 | rented |
| 403 N 55TH ST Frequently tradedTraded 3×: $12K in 2000 → $26K in 2016 (+117%). | Owner-occupied | $136K | —/— | 1,422 | 1945 | 3 | |
| 403R-05 N 55TH ST | Vacant | $31K | —/— | — | — | 0 | tax lien |
| 404 N 55TH ST New constructionbuilt new (tax-abated). | Owner-occupied | $105K | 3/1 | 1,096 | 1925 | 0 | abatedtax lien |
| 405 N 55TH ST | Owner-occupied | $117K | 3/1 | 1,246 | 1925 | 0 | abated |
| 407 N 55TH ST | Absentee individual | $115K | 3/1 | 1,452 | 1925 | 0 | rented |
| 409 N 55TH ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2024 permit (tax-abated), sold for $5K in 2004. | Owner-occupied | $95K | 3/1 | 964 | 1925 | 1 | abated |
| 411 N 55TH ST | Owner-occupied | $95K | 3/1 | 964 | 1925 | 0 | abated |
| 413 N 55TH ST New constructionbuilt new under a 2012 permit (tax-abated). | Owner-occupied | $101K | 3/1 | 1,048 | 1925 | 0 | abated |
| 415 N 55TH ST New constructionBought for $40K in 2001, built new (tax-abated), sold for $35K in 2009. | Owner-occupied | $61K | —/— | 1,048 | 1925 | 2 | abated |
| 417 N 55TH ST ImprovedBought for $40K in 2001. Owner pulled a alteration permit in 2009. | Absentee individual | $84K | —/— | 1,440 | 1925 | 2 |
Neighborhood
Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.
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Generated 2026-07-09 from public City of Philadelphia records · Download this block's data (CSV)