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Who owns your block

4600 block of Stenton Ave

An investor-heavy block: 40% of the parcels are held by LLCs or companies, with 4 open code violations and 6 homes behind $26,755 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 83% since 2016, now about $88K. Property taxes are climbing about 5% 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
$88K
$11K–$6.0M
ZIP median $201K
Price / sq ft
$120
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
0.4×
the city median
city $223K
Recent sale
$3K
1 sold in 2yr
assessed $88K
Tax / yr
$1K
typical · up to $83K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
1 of 15
$1K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
20%
2 of 15
city 41%
Rentals
40%
6 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
4
L&I code
▲ block 7% · city 5%
Back taxes
$27K
6 of 15 behind
▲ block 40% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
1
1 home · ZBA & boards
block 7% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
-1%
value · tax −$7
5 years
+117%
value · tax +$649
10 years
+83%
value · tax +$523

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 $88K — about 0.4× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19144 median of $201K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19144 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19144Philadelphia
Median home value$88K$201K$223K
Owner-occupied7%40%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 34 reported crimes (8 violent) and 76 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
34
8 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
76
13 still open

Most reported crimes

Motor Vehicle Theft6
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief5
Fraud4
Other Assaults4
Aggravated Assault No Firearm3
Theft from Vehicle3

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection17
Maintenance Complaint16
Illegal Dumping11
Salting6
Street Defect4
Shoveling3

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
Mastery Charter School At Wister
Middle · K-8
Theodore Roosevelt
430 E Washington Ln · 407 students
High · 9-12
Martin Luther King
6100 Stenton Ave · 604 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$100K$200K$88K2016: $48K2017: $48K2018: $48K2019: $42K2020: $41K2021: $41K2022: $41K2023: $64K2024: $64K2025: $90K2026: $90K2027: $88K2016202020232027

▲ +83% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$1,000$2,000$1,1982016: $6752017: $6752018: $6752019: $5742020: $5492021: $5492022: $5492023: $8682024: $8682025: $1,2052026: $1,2052027: $1,1982016202020232027

▲ +77% since 2016 · ~+5%/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 $1,386 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%
$0pays now $1,386at the full rate

4670 Stenton Ave is assessed at $99K but pays $0 a year — about 0% of the $1,386 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 +5.7% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

8410025020162019202220252027This block 183 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $183 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+5.7%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+83%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+5.7%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+2.7%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-0.8 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 18 arm's-length sales since 1999. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 7 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$250K$500K20042008201220162020
18arm's-length sales since 1999
1times the typical home has sold
6most sales for a single property
7homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 15 parcels

Owner-occupied: 2Investor / LLC: 5Absentee individual: 3Vacant: 5 15parcels
  • Owner-occupied 2
  • Investor / LLC 5
  • Absentee individual 3
  • Vacant 5

Value distribution today

13 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$11K$1.7M+

The block's largest owner, Cara & Associates Llc, carries 2 open violations across 13 properties it owns around the city.

OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Cara & Associates Llc113$342Kphila.gov ↗
Apu 9 Llc18$1.4Mphila.gov ↗
Regatta Real Estate Llc15$1.2Mphila.gov ↗
175 De Nj Llc13$5.2Mphila.gov ↗
Peoples Choice Re Trust12$164Kphila.gov ↗
4663 Stenton Ave Llc11$6.0Mphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 15 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
4647-61 STENTON AVE Bought for $290K in 2014. Owner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2019. Investor / LLC $1.7M —/— 31,552 1925 3 tax lien
4648 STENTON AVE Vacant $11K —/— 0 tax lien
4650 STENTON AVE Vacant $11K —/— 0 tax lien
4652 STENTON AVE Vacant $11K —/— 0 tax lien
4654 STENTON AVE Vacant $11K —/— 0 tax lien
4656 STENTON AVE Traded 6×: $90K in 2001 → $33K in 2020 (-63%). Investor / LLC $111K 3/1 920 1900 6 rented
4658 STENTON AVE Traded 2×: $10K in 2009 → $30K in 2016 (+200%). Investor / LLC $86K 2/1 700 1900 2 rented
4660 STENTON AVE Absentee individual $111K 3/1 920 1900 0 rented
4662 STENTON AVE Absentee individual $88K 2/1 700 1900 1 rented
4663-79 STENTON AVE Bought for $95K in 2004. Owner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2018. Investor / LLC $6.0M —/— 62,190 1920 1 4 violtax lien
4664 STENTON AVE Traded 3×: $20K in 2003 → $33K in 2016 (+63%). Investor / LLC $88K 2/1 700 1900 3 rented
4666 STENTON AVE Vacant $13K —/— 0 tax lien
4668 STENTON AVE Owner-occupied $123K 3/1 1,000 1900 1
4670 STENTON AVE Owner-occupied $99K 3/1 830 1900 0 abatedtax lien
4672 STENTON AVE Absentee individual $65K 3/1 830 1920 1 rented

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.