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PhiladelphiaBuilt on public City of Philadelphia recordsJuly 8, 2026

Who owns your block

4700 block of Melon St

A mostly owner-occupied block: 87% of homes are lived in by their owners, with 2 open code violations.

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
$181K
$177K–$268K
Median built
1975
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
87%
13 of 15
Open violations
2
L&I code
▲ block 13% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%

Schools

The public schools this block is zoned for — its official School District of Philadelphia catchments.

Elementary & Middle · K-8
Alain Locke
4550 Haverford Ave · 276 students
High · 9-12
West Philadelphia HS
4901 Chestnut St · 729 students

Catchment assignments from the School District of Philadelphia via City of Philadelphia open data. Confirm with the District before enrollment decisions.

Who owns it

Ownership of 15 parcels

Owner-occupied: 13Absentee individual: 2 15parcels
  • Owner-occupied 13
  • Absentee individual 2

Value distribution today

1 parcels11 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels1 parcels2 parcels
$177K$201K+

No multi-home or corporate owners on this block — every home has its own owner.

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).

AddressOwnershipValue & trendSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
4701 MELON ST Owner-occupied $195K 1975 0
4703 MELON ST Owner-occupied $181K 1975 0
4705 MELON ST Owner-occupied $181K 1975 0 1 viol
4707 MELON ST Owner-occupied $181K 1975 0
4709 MELON ST Owner-occupied $181K 1975 0 1 viol
4711 MELON ST Owner-occupied $181K 1975 0
4713 MELON ST Owner-occupied $177K 1975 0
4715 MELON ST Owner-occupied $181K 1975 0
4717 MELON ST Owner-occupied $181K 1975 0
4719 MELON ST Owner-occupied $181K 1975 0
4721 MELON ST Owner-occupied $181K 1975 0
4723 MELON ST Owner-occupied $181K 1975 0
4725 MELON ST Owner-occupied $181K 1975 0
4727 MELON ST Absentee individual $268K 1975 0
4729 MELON ST Absentee individual $201K 1975 0

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.