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Who owns your block

400 block of N Sickels St

A mixed-ownership block: 33% owner-occupied, 10% investor-held, with 5 homes behind $28,660 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 142% since 2016, now about $95K. Property taxes are climbing about 7% 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
$95K
$58K–$143K
ZIP median $133K
Price / sq ft
$98
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
0.4×
the city median
city $223K
Recent sale
$19K
3 sold in 2yr
assessed $95K
Tax / yr
$1K
typical · up to $2K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
7 of 21
$10K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
33%
7 of 21
city 41%
Rentals
14%
3 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$29K
5 of 21 behind
▲ block 24% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+10%
value · tax +$117
5 years
+134%
value · tax +$631
10 years
+142%
value · tax +$646

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 $95K — 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 blockZIP 19139Philadelphia
Median home value$95K$133K$223K
Owner-occupied24%32%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 135 reported crimes (73 violent) and 201 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
135
73 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
201
49 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults49
Thefts12
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief11
Disorderly Conduct9
Motor Vehicle Theft8
Aggravated Assault No Firearm7

Top 311 complaints

Maintenance Complaint45
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection32
Salting21
Abandoned Vehicle19
Illegal Dumping19
Street Defect12

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
Guion Bluford
5720 Media St · 490 students
High · 9-12
Overbrook High
5898 Lancaster Ave · 466 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$50K$100K$95K2016: $39K2017: $39K2018: $39K2019: $39K2020: $41K2021: $41K2022: $41K2023: $41K2024: $41K2025: $87K2026: $87K2027: $95K2016202020232027

▲ +142% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$1,000$2,000$1,1952016: $5492017: $5492018: $5492019: $5432020: $5642021: $5642022: $5642023: $5432024: $5642025: $1,0782026: $1,0782027: $1,1952016202020232027

▲ +118% since 2016 · ~+7%/yr

7
7 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 $10,414 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%
$769pays now $1,999at the full rate

416 N Sickels St is assessed at $143K but pays $769 a year — about 38% of the $1,999 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 +8.4% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 242 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $242 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced the market.

Annualized return
+8.4%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+142%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+8.4%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+5.4%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
+1.9 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 19 arm's-length sales since 1999. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 10 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$1.0M$2.0M20002005201020152020
19arm's-length sales since 1999
1times the typical home has sold
4most sales for a single property
10homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 21 parcels

Owner-occupied: 7Investor / LLC: 2Absentee individual: 12 21parcels
  • Owner-occupied 7
  • Investor / LLC 2
  • Absentee individual 12

Value distribution today

1 parcels0 parcels8 parcels7 parcels2 parcels0 parcels3 parcels
$58K$136K+

The block's largest owner, Us Bank Trust National Association Tr, carries 20 open violations across 22 properties it owns around the city.

OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Us Bank Trust National Association Tr122$4.4Mphila.gov ↗
Titan Hill Properties Llc16$898Kphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 21 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$100K$200K201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median

Worth a look

AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
409 N SICKELS ST Owner-occupied $113K 3/1 1,035 1925 0 abated
411 N SICKELS ST Traded 4×: $30K in 2000 → $10K in 2009 (-67%). Absentee individual $85K 3/1 876 1925 4 tax lien
413 N SICKELS ST Traded 3×: $25K in 2005 → $57K in 2019 (+128%). Investor / LLC $85K 3/1 876 1925 3 tax lien
414 N SICKELS ST Absentee individual $97K 3/1 990 1925 0 abated
415 N SICKELS ST Absentee individual $85K 3/1 876 1925 1 rentedtax lien
416 N SICKELS ST built new (tax-abated), sold for $1.9M in 2019. Absentee individual $143K 3/1 970 1925 1 rentedabatedtax lien
417 N SICKELS ST Absentee individual $85K 3/1 876 1925 0
418 N SICKELS ST Owner-occupied $96K 3/1 970 1925 0 tax lien
419 N SICKELS ST Investor / LLC $85K 3/1 876 1925 1 rentedtax lien
420 N SICKELS ST Absentee individual $96K 3/1 970 1925 0 tax lien
421 N SICKELS ST Owner-occupied $85K 3/1 876 1925 0 abated
422 N SICKELS ST Absentee individual $97K 3/1 975 1925 1 tax lien
423 N SICKELS ST Owner-occupied $85K 3/1 876 1925 0 abatedtax lien
424 N SICKELS ST Absentee individual $58K 3/1 970 1925 1 tax lien
425 N SICKELS ST Traded 3×: $6K in 2001 → $22K in 2011 (+258%). Absentee individual $85K 3/1 876 1925 3 tax lien
426 N SICKELS ST built new (tax-abated), sold for $30K in 1999. Owner-occupied $96K 3/1 970 1925 1 abated
427 N SICKELS ST Absentee individual $95K 3/1 936 1925 0 abated
428 N SICKELS ST Absentee individual $135K 3/1 970 1925 1
429 N SICKELS ST Absentee individual $104K 3/1 1,126 1925 0 tax lien
430 N SICKELS ST Traded 2×: $129K in 2020 → $160K in 2024 (+25%). Owner-occupied $136K 3/1 975 1925 2
431 N SICKELS ST Owner-occupied $95K 3/1 936 1925 0 tax lien

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.