Who owns your block
500 block of Somerton Ave
A mostly owner-occupied block: 74% of homes are lived in by their owners.
The typical home here is up 92% since 2016, now about $423K. Property taxes are climbing about 5% a year.
- Owner-occupied
- Investor / LLC
- Absentee
- Vacant
- Has violations
By the Numbers
How fast it's moving
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.
- 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 $423K — about 1.9× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19116 median of $402K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19116 and across Philadelphia.
| This block | ZIP 19116 | Philadelphia | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $423K | $402K | $223K |
| Owner-occupied | 53% | 61% | 41% |
Safety & quality of life
Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 11 reported crimes (2 violent) and 29 resident 311 requests to the city.
Most reported crimes
Top 311 complaints
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.
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
- $423K typical home, up +92% since 2016
- Tax bill $2,660 to $4,517 a year, +5%/yr and compounding
- Whole block: $6.8M assessed, $69,371/yr to the city, about $3,651 per home
Median assessed value · 2016–2027
▲ +92% since 2016
Estimated property tax · per home, per year
▲ +70% since 2016 · ~+5%/yr
Who really pays
Philadelphia charges every home the same 1.40% of its assessed value. Abatements and exemptions shrink what some homes are taxed on — here's this block:
- 500 Somerton Avetax-abated new construction0.00%$0/yr on $337K
- 510 Somerton Avetax-abated new construction0.00%$0/yr on $119K
- 514 Somerton Aveexemption0.00%$0/yr on $59K
- 560 Somerton Avetax-abated new construction0.00%$0/yr on $353K
- 556 Somerton Aveexemption1.04%$3,978/yr on $384K
- …and 9 more paying under the full rate — the gold-ringed bubbles in the makeup chart
The starkest example: 560 Somerton Ave is assessed at $353K but pays $0 a year — about 0% of the $4,938 it would owe at the full rate, because its new-construction value is abated for 10 years.
The block as an asset
Read like a financial asset, this block has tracked the Philadelphia market, compounding +6.1% a year against the city's 6.5%.
Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market
Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $192 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.
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 15 arm's-length sales since 1993. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 9 have not changed hands at all.
Every recorded sale · price & date
Who owns it
Ownership of 19 parcels
- Owner-occupied 14
- Absentee individual 4
- Vacant 1
Value distribution today
No multi-home or corporate owners on this block — every home has its own owner.
House by house
All 19 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
Worth a look
| Address | Ownership | Value & trend | Bd/Ba | Sq ft | Built | Sales | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 500 SOMERTON AVE | Owner-occupied | $337K | —/— | 7,641 | 1960 | 0 | abated |
| 501 SOMERTON AVE | Owner-occupied | $221K | —/— | 1,160 | 1960 | 0 | |
| 507 SOMERTON AVE | Owner-occupied | $474K | 4/2 | 2,331 | 1959 | 1 | |
| 510 SOMERTON AVE | Absentee individual | $119K | —/— | 1,063 | 1960 | 0 | abated |
| 514 SOMERTON AVE | Vacant | $59K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 515 SOMERTON AVE TradedTraded 2×: $118K in 1993 → $425K in 2022 (+262%). | Owner-occupied | $450K | —/— | 1,752 | 1959 | 2 | |
| 523 SOMERTON AVE | Owner-occupied | $473K | —/— | 2,024 | 1959 | 0 | |
| 524 SOMERTON AVE Frequently tradedTraded 3×: $65K in 2000 → $65K in 2000 (+0%). | Owner-occupied | $423K | —/— | 1,760 | 1959 | 3 | |
| 529 SOMERTON AVE | Owner-occupied | $461K | —/— | 1,800 | 1878 | 0 | |
| 534 SOMERTON AVE | Owner-occupied | $401K | —/— | 1,644 | 1959 | 0 | |
| 537 SOMERTON AVE | Owner-occupied | $477K | —/— | 2,312 | 1890 | 1 | |
| 543 SOMERTON AVE | Absentee individual | $439K | —/— | 1,495 | 1890 | 1 | |
| 549 SOMERTON AVE TradedTraded 2×: $268K in 2004 → $260K in 2004 (-3%). | Owner-occupied | $452K | —/— | 1,892 | 1890 | 2 | |
| 550 SOMERTON AVE | Owner-occupied | $461K | —/— | 2,426 | 1959 | 1 | |
| 556 SOMERTON AVE | Owner-occupied | $384K | 2/1 | 1,344 | 1959 | 1 | |
| 557 SOMERTON AVE | Owner-occupied | $513K | —/— | 2,792 | 1930 | 1 | rented |
| 560 SOMERTON AVE New constructionBought for $169K in 2003, built new (tax-abated), sold for $169K in 2003. | Owner-occupied | $353K | —/— | 1,056 | 1959 | 2 | abated |
| 566 SOMERTON AVE | Absentee individual | $20K | —/— | 1,350 | 1959 | 0 | |
| 574 SOMERTON AVE | Absentee individual | $307K | —/— | 880 | 1959 | 0 |
Neighborhood
Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.
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This is the 500 block of Somerton Ave,
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Generated 2026-07-08 from public City of Philadelphia records · Download this block's data (CSV)