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Who owns your block

4900 block of N 4th St

A mixed-ownership block: 58% owner-occupied, 8% investor-held, with 4 open code violations and 5 homes behind $7,859 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 90% since 2016, now about $147K. Property taxes are climbing about 6% 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
$147K
$22K–$210K
ZIP median $171K
Price / sq ft
$126
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
0.7×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$2K
typical · up to $3K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
1 of 24
$8K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
58%
14 of 24
city 41%
Rentals
8%
2 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
4
L&I code
▼ block 4% · city 5%
Back taxes
$8K
5 of 24 behind
▲ block 21% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+2%
value · tax +$8
5 years
+92%
value · tax +$958
10 years
+90%
value · tax +$946

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 $147K — about 0.7× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19120 median of $171K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19120 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19120Philadelphia
Median home value$147K$171K$223K
Owner-occupied25%48%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 124 reported crimes (60 violent) and 302 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
124
60 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
302
58 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults38
Thefts15
Aggravated Assault No Firearm12
Motor Vehicle Theft11
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief10
All Other Offenses9

Top 311 complaints

Illegal Dumping65
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection50
Maintenance Complaint32
Street Light Outage32
Abandoned Vehicle24
Sanitation Violation24

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
Andrew J Morrison
5100 N 3rd St · 484 students
High · 9-12
Olney High School
100 W Duncannon Ave · 1036 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$147K2016: $77K2017: $77K2018: $77K2019: $71K2020: $77K2021: $77K2022: $77K2023: $107K2024: $107K2025: $145K2026: $145K2027: $147K2016202020232027

▲ +90% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$1,250$2,500$2,0042016: $1,0582017: $1,0582018: $1,0462019: $9832020: $1,0462021: $1,0462022: $1,0462023: $1,4872024: $1,4872025: $1,9962026: $1,9962027: $2,0042016202020232027

▲ +89% since 2016 · ~+6%/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 $8,251 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%
$1,252pays now $2,504at the full rate

4900 N 4th St is assessed at $179K but pays $1,252 a year — about 50% of the $2,504 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 tracked the Philadelphia market, compounding +6% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9210025020162019202220252027This block 190 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $190 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+6%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+90%
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 21 arm's-length sales since 2000. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 9 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$125K$250K20002005201020152020
21arm's-length sales since 2000
1times the typical home has sold
3most sales for a single property
9homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 24 parcels

Owner-occupied: 14Investor / LLC: 2Absentee individual: 7Vacant: 1 24parcels
  • Owner-occupied 14
  • Investor / LLC 2
  • Absentee individual 7
  • Vacant 1

Value distribution today

1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels14 parcels4 parcels5 parcels
$22K$209K+

The block's largest owner, Victorias Properties Llc, carries 2 open violations across 23 properties it owns around the city.

OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Victorias Properties Llc123$2.7Mphila.gov ↗
Perdomo Jose Milton (individual)26$986Kphila.gov ↗
Restored Properties Llc13$469Kphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 24 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

Worth a look

AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
4900 N 4TH ST Owner-occupied $179K 4/1 1,920 1945 0 abatedtax lien
4902 N 4TH ST 3 L&I violations (2010); 7 L&I violations (2011); 3 L&I violations (2020); 13 L&I violations (2023). Absentee individual $176K —/2 1,280 1945 0 tax lien
4904 N 4TH ST built new under a 2019 permit. Absentee individual $138K 3/1 1,060 1930 0
4906 N 4TH ST Owner pulled a plumbing permit in 2008. Owner-occupied $138K 3/1 1,060 1930 0
4908-10 N 4TH ST L&I violation (2017). Investor / LLC $173K —/— 1,396 1930 0 rented
4912 N 4TH ST Traded 2×: $47K in 2007 → $80K in 2010 (+70%). Investor / LLC $145K 3/1 1,200 1930 2 tax lien
4914 N 4TH ST Absentee individual $145K 3/1 1,200 1930 1
4915 N 4TH ST L&I violation (2011); sold $235K (2023). Absentee individual $199K —/2 1,840 1945 1
4916 N 4TH ST Bought for $110K in 2023. Owner pulled a major alteration permit in 2018. Absentee individual $145K 3/1 1,200 1930 1 tax lien
4917 N 4TH ST Owner-occupied $141K 3/1 1,060 1930 0
4918 N 4TH ST Owner-occupied $145K 3/1 1,200 1930 0
4919 N 4TH ST Absentee individual $141K 3/1 1,060 1930 1 rented
4920 N 4TH ST Vacant $22K —/— 1
4921 N 4TH ST Bought for $9K in 2015, plumbing permit in 2018, sold for $120K in 2018 (+1312%). Owner-occupied $209K 3/1 1,060 1930 3
4922 N 4TH ST Absentee individual $151K 3/1 1,201 1930 1
4923 N 4TH ST sold $105K (2023); 7 L&I violations (2023). Owner-occupied $141K 3/1 1,060 1930 1
4924 N 4TH ST Bought for $44K in 2019. Owner pulled a alteration permit in 2012. Owner-occupied $149K 3/1 1,272 1930 1
4926 N 4TH ST Owner pulled a alterations permit in 2026. Owner-occupied $133K 3/1 1,002 1930 0
4928 N 4TH ST Traded 2×: $43K in 2006 → $83K in 2007 (+92%). Owner-occupied $133K 3/1 1,002 1945 2
4930 N 4TH ST Owner-occupied $210K 3/1 1,117 1945 1
4934 N 4TH ST Bought for $50K in 2005, fast form building permit in 2008, sold for $235K in 2024 (+370%). Owner-occupied $202K 4/3 1,995 1945 2
4936 N 4TH ST Bought for $40K in 2000, plumbing permit in 2012, sold for $68K in 2020 (+70%). Owner-occupied $152K 3/1 1,152 1945 2
4940 N 4TH ST 4 L&I violations incl UNSAFE STRUCTURE (2024). Owner-occupied $166K 4/1 3,525 1945 0 4 violtax lien
4948 N 4TH ST Bought for $95K in 2012. Owner pulled a interior non-load-bearing wall demo. permit in 2025. Owner-occupied $209K —/2 2,023 1945 1

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.

Generated 2026-07-09 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.