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Who owns your block

4800 block of Wallace St

A mixed-ownership block: 0% owner-occupied, 0% investor-held, with 2 homes behind $12,883 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 0% since 2016, now about $26K. Property taxes are climbing about 0% a year.

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
$26K
$17K–$95K
ZIP median $133K
Price / sq ft
$29
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
0.1×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$364
typical · up to $1K
city ≈$3K/yr
Median built
1925
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
0%
0 of 3
city 41%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$13K
2 of 3 behind
▲ block 67% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+0%
value · tax +$0
5 years
-33%
value · tax −$179
10 years
-33%
value · tax −$179

Assessed-value change for the typical home. Philadelphia taxes a flat 1.3998% of value, so the bill moves with it.

How the block compares

The typical home here is $26K — about 0.1× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19139 median of $133K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19139 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19139Philadelphia
Median home value$26K$133K$223K
Owner-occupied0%32%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 83 reported crimes (27 violent) and 144 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
83
27 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
144
42 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults19
All Other Offenses13
Thefts10
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief10
Motor Vehicle Theft8
Fraud4

Top 311 complaints

Maintenance Complaint43
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection31
Illegal Dumping16
Sanitation Violation9
Salting7
License Complaint6

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
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.

What it's worth, and where taxes are going

Median assessed value · 2016–2027

$0$50K$100K$26K2016: $26K2017: $39K2018: $39K2019: $39K2020: $39K2021: $39K2022: $39K2023: $26K2024: $26K2025: $26K2026: $26K2027: $26K2016202020232027

▲ +0% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$500$1,000$3642016: $3642017: $5432018: $5432019: $5432020: $5432021: $5432022: $5432023: $3642024: $3642025: $3642026: $3642027: $3642016202020232027

▲ +0% since 2016 · ~+0%/yr

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding 0% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 100 Philadelphia 201

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

Annualized return
0%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
0%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
0%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
-3%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-6.5 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 1 arm's-length sale since 2007. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 2 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

Few recorded sales.

1arm's-length sales since 2007
0times the typical home has sold
1most sales for a single property
2homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 3 parcels

Absentee individual: 2Vacant: 1 3parcels
  • Absentee individual 2
  • Vacant 1

Value distribution today

1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$17K$26K+

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

House by house

All 3 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$50K$100K201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
4811 WALLACE ST Vacant $17K 0 tax lien
4812 WALLACE ST Absentee individual $26K 2,100 1925 1 tax lien
4814 WALLACE ST Absentee individual $95K 3,270 1925 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.