4200 block of Chestnut St

How the block compares

The typical home here is $349K — about 1.6× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19104 median of $211K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19104 and across Philadelphia.

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 292 reported crimes (20 violent) and 193 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

• $349K typical home, up +1% since 2016
• Tax bill $4,122 to $1,327 a year, -10%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $162M assessed, $485,560/yr to the city, about $7,037 per home

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:

• 4225-31 Chestnut Sttax-abated new construction0.00%$0/yr on $3.6M
• 4258-60 Chestnut Sttax-abated new construction0.14%$18,291/yr on $13M
• 4210-16 Chestnut Sttax-abated new construction0.14%$19,366/yr on $14M
• 4211 Chestnut Sttax-abated new construction0.14%$31,791/yr on $23M
• 4233 Chestnut Sttax-abated new construction0.14%$78,126/yr on $56M
• …and 31 more paying under the full rate — the gold-ringed bubbles in the makeup chart

The starkest example: 4233 Chestnut St is assessed at $56M but pays $78,126 a year — about 10% of the $781,269 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 +0.1% 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 $101 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 31 arm's-length sales since 1999. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 59 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 74 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

Torn down & rebuilt

4233 Chestnut St

$56M · demolished and rebuilt (2021), then sold for $88M in 2022.

Torn down & rebuilt

4210-16 Chestnut St

$14M · demolished in 2017 and rebuilt (2018).

Torn down & rebuilt

4219-23 Chestnut St

$5.0M · Old house bought for $550K in 2005, demolished in 2008 and rebuilt (2011).

Torn down & rebuilt

4201 Chestnut St

$1.6M · demolished in 2026 and rebuilt (2021), then sold for $3.8M in 2022.

New construction

4211 Chestnut St

$23M · Bought for $675K in 2014, built new under a 2022 permit (tax-abated).

New construction

4258-60 Chestnut St

$13M · built new under a 2017 permit (tax-abated), sold for $16M in 2020.

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.