Who owns your block
4500 block of Spruce St
A mixed-ownership block: 39% owner-occupied, 9% investor-held, with 6 open code violations and 2 homes behind $4,610 on taxes.
The typical home here is up 60% since 2016, now about $745K. Property taxes are climbing about 5% a year.
- 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 $745K — about 3.3× the citywide median, and above 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 | $745K | $133K | $223K |
| Owner-occupied | 26% | 32% | 41% |
Safety & quality of life
Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 79 reported crimes (10 violent) and 250 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
- $745K typical home, up +60% since 2016
- Tax bill $6,190 to $10,429 a year, +5%/yr and compounding
- Whole block: $26M assessed, $289,987/yr to the city, about $12,608 per home
Median assessed value · 2016–2027
▲ +60% since 2016
Estimated property tax · per home, per year
▲ +68% since 2016 · ~+5%/yr
Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home
4534-36 Spruce St is assessed at $4.8M but pays $6,705 a year — about 10% of the $67,063 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 +4.3% 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 $160 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 18 arm's-length sales since 2000. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 10 have not changed hands at all.
Every recorded sale · price & date
Who owns it
Ownership of 23 parcels
- Owner-occupied 9
- Investor / LLC 2
- Absentee individual 12
Value distribution today
The block's largest owner, Grey Gables Mc Lp, carries 1 open violation across 3 properties it owns around the city.
| Owner | On block | Owns citywide | Portfolio value | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grey Gables Mc Lp | 1 | 3 | $2.0M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Hightop Spruce Llc | 1 | 1 | $4.8M | phila.gov ↗ |
House by house
All 23 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
| Address | Ownership | Value & trend | Bd/Ba | Sq ft | Built | Sales | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4501 SPRUCE ST | Owner-occupied | $870K | —/— | 3,500 | 1925 | 1 | |
| 4503 SPRUCE ST New constructionBought for $146K in 2001, built new (tax-abated), sold for $350K in 2009. | Owner-occupied | $690K | —/— | 1,980 | 1904 | 3 | abated |
| 4505 SPRUCE ST | Owner-occupied | $570K | —/— | 1,980 | 1904 | 1 | rented |
| 4507 SPRUCE ST | Absentee individual | $531K | —/— | 1,980 | 1925 | 0 | tax lien |
| 4509 SPRUCE ST | Owner-occupied | $872K | —/— | 3,136 | 1904 | 1 | |
| 4511 SPRUCE ST | Owner-occupied | $782K | —/— | 3,136 | 1904 | 0 | abated |
| 4513 SPRUCE ST | Absentee individual | $746K | —/— | 3,136 | 1915 | 1 | rented |
| 4515 SPRUCE ST | Absentee individual | $745K | —/— | 3,680 | 1925 | 1 | rented |
| 4517 SPRUCE ST | Absentee individual | $745K | —/— | 3,680 | 1925 | 1 | rented |
| 4519 SPRUCE ST | Absentee individual | $745K | —/— | 3,680 | 1925 | 1 | rented |
| 4520 SPRUCE ST | Investor / LLC | $569K | —/— | 4,640 | 1925 | 1 | |
| 4521 SPRUCE ST | Absentee individual | $745K | —/— | 3,680 | 1925 | 1 | rented |
| 4522 SPRUCE ST TradedTraded 2×: $470K in 2005 → $571K in 2014 (+22%). | Owner-occupied | $927K | —/— | 3,880 | 1925 | 2 | |
| 4523 SPRUCE ST | Absentee individual | $620K | —/— | 3,680 | 1925 | 0 | rented |
| 4524 SPRUCE ST Frequently tradedTraded 3×: $243K in 2000 → $1.0M in 2022 (+312%). | Owner-occupied | $1.3M | 6/3 | 3,640 | 1925 | 3 | |
| 4525 SPRUCE ST | Owner-occupied | $747K | —/— | 4,628 | 1890 | 0 | rented |
| 4526 SPRUCE ST | Owner-occupied | $926K | —/— | 3,640 | 1925 | 0 | abated |
| 4528 SPRUCE ST | Absentee individual | $740K | —/— | 3,640 | 1947 | 0 | rented |
| 4529-33 SPRUCE ST | Absentee individual | $4.5M | —/— | 24,550 | 1930 | 0 | rented |
| 4530 SPRUCE ST | Absentee individual | $647K | —/— | 3,640 | 1900 | 0 | rented |
| 4532 SPRUCE ST | Absentee individual | $647K | —/— | 3,640 | 1900 | 0 | |
| 4534-36 SPRUCE ST Torn down & rebuiltOld house bought for $940K in 2015, demolished in 2017. | Investor / LLC | $4.8M | —/— | 15,000 | 2018 | 1 | rentedabated |
| 4537 SPRUCE ST | Absentee individual | $2.0M | —/— | 15,552 | 1905 | 0 | 6 viol |
Neighborhood
Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.
Generated 2026-07-08 from public City of Philadelphia records · Download this block's data (CSV)