4700 block of Cedar Ave

How the block compares

The typical home here is $622K — about 2.8× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19143 median of $152K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19143 and across Philadelphia.

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 66 reported crimes (16 violent) and 284 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

• $622K typical home, up +56% since 2016
• Tax bill $5,050 to $7,470 a year, +4%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $23M assessed, $278,830/yr to the city, about $7,338 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, 16 of 38 homes pay that full rate — and 22 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: 4739 Cedar Ave is assessed at $786K but pays $10,581 a year — about 96% of the $10,998 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 +4.1% 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 $156 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 50 arm's-length sales since 2000. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 9 have not changed hands at all.

Who owns it

The block's largest owner, Martin T Mccullagh, carries 4 open violations across 11 properties it owns around the city.

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 38 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

4739 Cedar Ave

$786K · built new (tax-abated), sold for $448K in 2006.

New construction

4705 Cedar Ave

$662K · built new under a 2008 permit (tax-abated), sold for $207K in 2003.

New construction

4719 Cedar Ave

$634K · built new (tax-abated), sold for $165K in 2002.

New construction

4737 Cedar Ave

$631K · built new under a 2012 permit (tax-abated).

New construction

4707 Cedar Ave

$622K · Bought for $160K in 2004, built new under a 2008 permit, sold for $535K in 2018.

New construction

4729 Cedar Ave

$622K · built new under a 2009 permit.

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.