4000 block of Ford Rd

How the block compares

The typical home here is $290K — about 1.3× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19131 median of $156K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19131 and across Philadelphia.

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 33 reported crimes (14 violent) and 106 resident 311 requests to the city.

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

• $290K typical home, up +62% since 2016
• Tax bill $2,247 to $3,519 a year, +4%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $24M assessed, $227,334/yr to the city, about $4,210 per home

Who really pays — each home's tax bill as a share of its value

Philadelphia charges every home the same 1.40% of its assessed value. On this block, 30 of 54 homes pay that full rate — and 24 pay less, because abatements and exemptions shrink the taxed value. Each dot is one home; the further left, the less of its value it pays. Hover a dot for the house.

The starkest example: 4051 Ford Rd is assessed at $5.8M but pays $0 a year — about 0% of the $80,978 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 lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +4.5% 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 $162 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 70 arm's-length sales since 1995. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 13 have not changed hands at all.

Who owns it

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 54 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

Worth a look

New construction

4051 Ford Rd

$5.8M · built new under a 2009 permit (tax-abated).

New construction

4026 Ford Rd

$299K · built new under a 2018 permit.

New construction

4069 Ford Rd

$276K · built new (tax-abated), sold for $169K in 2005.

Renovated & sold on

4079 Ford Rd

$402K · Bought for $67K in 2014, electrical permit in 2015, sold for $230K in 2015 (+243%).

Renovated & sold on

4062 Ford Rd

$252K · Bought for $80K in 2002, plumbing permit in 2015, sold for $195K in 2019 (+144%).

Renovated & sold on

4060 Ford Rd

$252K · Bought for $131K in 2006, plumbing permit in 2018, sold for $183K in 2022 (+39%).

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