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Who owns your block

400 block of S Van Pelt St

A mostly owner-occupied block: 78% of homes are lived in by their owners.

The typical home here is up 56% since 2016, now about $880K. Property taxes are climbing about 3% a year though the increases have eased lately.

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
$880K
$863K–$7.2M
ZIP median $364K
Price / sq ft
$476
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
4.0×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$11K
typical · up to $100K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
1 of 9
$14K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
78%
7 of 9
city 41%
Rentals
22%
2 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
2
2 homes · ZBA & boards
block 22% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+6%
value · tax −$532
5 years
+30%
value · tax +$2K
10 years
+56%
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 $880K — about 4.0× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19146 median of $364K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19146 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19146Philadelphia
Median home value$880K$364K$223K
Owner-occupied67%29%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 615 reported crimes (16 violent) and 395 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
615
16 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
395
16 still open

Most reported crimes

Thefts537
All Other Offenses29
Other Assaults10
Motor Vehicle Theft9
Theft from Vehicle7
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief7

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection115
Salting55
Graffiti Removal33
Opioid Response Unit32
Illegal Dumping23
Street Light Outage17

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
Albert M Greenfield
2200 Chestnut St · 757 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$1.0M$2.0M$880K2016: $566K2017: $566K2018: $566K2019: $654K2020: $676K2021: $676K2022: $676K2023: $757K2024: $757K2025: $828K2026: $828K2027: $880K2016202020232027

▲ +56% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$10,000$20,000$10,9142016: $7,4972017: $7,4972018: $7,4972019: $8,5962020: $8,8692021: $9,4612022: $9,0192023: $10,5462024: $10,5462025: $11,4462026: $11,4462027: $10,9142016202020232027

▲ +46% since 2016 · ~+3%/yr

1
1 property 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 $13,705 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%
$6,769pays now $12,076at the full rate

410 S Van Pelt St is assessed at $863K but pays $6,769 a year — about 56% of the $12,076 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 +4.1% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 156 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $156 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+4.1%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+56%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+4.1%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+1.1%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-2.4 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 9 arm's-length sales since 2004. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 4 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$1.0M$2.0M20042008201220162020
9arm's-length sales since 2004
1times the typical home has sold
4most sales for a single property
4homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 9 parcels

Owner-occupied: 7Absentee individual: 2 9parcels
  • Owner-occupied 7
  • Absentee individual 2

Value distribution today

6 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels1 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$863K$1.1M+

No multi-home or corporate owners on this block — every home has its own owner.

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$5.0M$10M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
406 S VAN PELT ST Traded 2×: $440K in 2010 → $1.0M in 2023 (+131%). Owner-occupied $1.0M 2/2 2,198 1850 2
408 S VAN PELT ST Owner-occupied $1.1M 2/3 2,198 1850 1
410 S VAN PELT ST Owner-occupied $863K —/— 1,812 1850 0 abated
412 S VAN PELT ST Owner-occupied $880K —/— 1,848 1850 1
414 S VAN PELT ST Owner-occupied $863K —/— 1,812 1850 0
415 S VAN PELT ST Appeal granted with conditions (2025). Absentee individual $7.2M —/— 22,689 1890 0 rented
416 S VAN PELT ST Absentee individual $880K 4/— 1,848 1850 1 rented
418 S VAN PELT ST Traded 4×: $540K in 2008 → $920K in 2015 (+70%). Owner-occupied $863K 3/2 1,812 1850 4
420 S VAN PELT ST Appeal withdrawn (2011). Owner-occupied $863K —/— 1,812 1850 0

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.