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Who owns your block

4700 block of E Thompson St

A mostly owner-occupied block: 73% of homes are lived in by their owners, with 1 open code violation and 2 homes behind $2,503 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 89% since 2016, now about $255K. Property taxes are climbing about 4% a year though the increases have eased lately.

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
$255K
$196K–$303K
ZIP median $213K
Price / sq ft
$168
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
1.1×
the city median
city $223K
Recent sale
$304K
1 sold in 2yr
assessed $255K
Tax / yr
$3K
typical · up to $4K
city ≈$3K/yr
Median built
1920
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
73%
8 of 11
city 41%
Rentals
18%
2 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
1
L&I code
▲ block 9% · city 5%
Back taxes
$3K
2 of 11 behind
▲ block 18% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
-5%
value · tax −$117
5 years
+65%
value · tax +$773
10 years
+89%
value · tax +$898

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 $255K — about 1.1× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19137 median of $213K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19137 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19137Philadelphia
Median home value$255K$213K$223K
Owner-occupied55%49%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 41 reported crimes (11 violent) and 175 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
41
11 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
175
23 still open

Most reported crimes

Motor Vehicle Theft11
Other Assaults9
Theft from Vehicle5
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief5
All Other Offenses4
Fraud3

Top 311 complaints

Salting41
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection24
Street Defect24
Maintenance Complaint17
Abandoned Vehicle12
Graffiti Removal11

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 & Middle · K-8
Bridesburg
2824 Jenks St · 522 students
High · 9-12
Frankford HS
5000 Oxford Ave · 908 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$250K$500K$255K2016: $135K2017: $135K2018: $135K2019: $144K2020: $155K2021: $155K2022: $155K2023: $229K2024: $229K2025: $269K2026: $269K2027: $255K2016202020232027

▲ +89% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$2,500$5,000$2,7372016: $1,8392017: $1,8392018: $1,8392019: $1,8622020: $2,0062021: $1,9642022: $1,9642023: $2,5382024: $2,5382025: $3,0312026: $2,8542027: $2,7372016202020232027

▲ +49% since 2016 · ~+4%/yr

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, 5 of 11 homes pay that full rate — and 6 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.

1.40% — the full rate0%0.4%0.8%1.2%
home on this blocktax-abated

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has tracked the Philadelphia market, compounding +6% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 189 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $189 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+6%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+89%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+6%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+3%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-0.5 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 14 arm's-length sales since 2003. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 3 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$250K$500K20052010201520202025
14arm's-length sales since 2003
1times the typical home has sold
3most sales for a single property
3homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 11 parcels

Owner-occupied: 8Investor / LLC: 2Absentee individual: 1 11parcels
  • Owner-occupied 8
  • Investor / LLC 2
  • Absentee individual 1

Value distribution today

4 parcels1 parcels0 parcels2 parcels0 parcels1 parcels3 parcels
$196K$302K+

The block's largest owner, Griffin Equities LLC, carries 1 open violation across 6 properties it owns around the city.

OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Griffin Equities LLC16$788Kphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗
428 Investments LLC13$466Kphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗

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 11 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$250K$500K201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
4709-11 E THOMPSON ST Owner-occupied $255K —/— 1,311 1920 0
4713 E THOMPSON ST Traded 2×: $48K in 2003 → $140K in 2006 (+191%). Investor / LLC $285K 3/2 1,696 1920 2 1 viol
4715 E THOMPSON ST Traded 2×: $132K in 2010 → $260K in 2020 (+97%). Owner-occupied $297K 3/2 1,440 1920 2
4717 E THOMPSON ST Traded 2×: $110K in 2017 → $230K in 2018 (+109%). Absentee individual $303K 3/2 1,440 1920 2 rented
4719-21 E THOMPSON ST Owner-occupied $302K 3/1 1,545 1920 1
4723 E THOMPSON ST Investor / LLC $196K 3/1 1,162 1920 1 rentedtax lien
4725 E THOMPSON ST Owner-occupied $196K 3/1 1,166 1920 0
4727 E THOMPSON ST Traded 3×: $150K in 2010 → $265K in 2021 (+77%). Owner-occupied $255K 3/2 1,150 1920 3
4729 E THOMPSON ST Owner-occupied $205K 3/1 1,287 1920 0
4731 E THOMPSON ST Owner-occupied $208K 3/1 1,340 1920 1
4733 E THOMPSON ST Traded 2×: $156K in 2024 → $304K in 2025 (+95%). Owner-occupied $219K 3/1 1,520 1920 2

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.