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PhiladelphiaBuilt on public City of Philadelphia recordsJuly 7, 2026

Who owns your block

500 block of Independence St

A mostly owner-occupied block: 83% of homes are lived in by their owners, with 5 open code violations and 1 home behind $490 on taxes.

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
$302K
$58K–$378K
Median built
1925
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
83%
10 of 12
Open violations
5
L&I code
▲ block 8% · city 5%
Back taxes
$490
1 of 12 behind
▼ block 8% · city 9%

Schools

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

Elementary & Middle · K-8
Thomas K Finletter
6100 N Front St · 577 students
High · 9-12
Samuel Fels
5500 Langdon St · 1228 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 12 parcels

Owner-occupied: 10Absentee individual: 1Vacant: 1 12parcels
  • Owner-occupied 10
  • Absentee individual 1
  • Vacant 1

Value distribution today

1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels1 parcels3 parcels3 parcels4 parcels
$58K$364K+

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

House by house

All 12 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
500 INDEPENDENCE ST Owner-occupied $316K 1900 0 5 viol
502 INDEPENDENCE ST Owner-occupied $267K 1960 0
503 INDEPENDENCE ST Vacant $58K 0
504 INDEPENDENCE ST Owner-occupied $261K 1960 0
505 INDEPENDENCE ST Owner-occupied $326K 1900 0
506 INDEPENDENCE ST Owner-occupied $378K 1925 0
507 INDEPENDENCE ST Owner-occupied $351K 1900 0
508 INDEPENDENCE ST Owner-occupied $288K 1925 0
509 INDEPENDENCE ST Owner-occupied $364K 1900 0
510 INDEPENDENCE ST Owner-occupied $316K 1925 0
515 INDEPENDENCE ST Absentee individual $230K 1960 0
517 INDEPENDENCE ST Owner-occupied $235K 1960 0

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.

Generated 2026-07-07 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.