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Who owns your block

5000 block of Lancaster Ave

A mixed-ownership block: 25% owner-occupied, 38% investor-held, with 39 open code violations and 8 homes behind $180,321 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
$117K
$61K–$1.3M
Recent sale
$67K
1 sold in 2yr
assessed $117K
Median built
1920
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
25%
6 of 24
Open violations
39
L&I code
▲ block 25% · city 5%
Back taxes
$180K
8 of 24 behind
▲ block 33% · city 9%

Schools

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

Elementary & Middle · K-8
Edward Heston
1621 N 54th St · 219 students
High · 9-12
Overbrook High
5898 Lancaster Ave · 466 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 24 parcels

Owner-occupied: 6Investor / LLC: 7Absentee individual: 9Vacant: 2 24parcels
  • Owner-occupied 6
  • Investor / LLC 7
  • Absentee individual 9
  • Vacant 2

Value distribution today

17 parcels1 parcels1 parcels2 parcels0 parcels0 parcels3 parcels
$61K$1.1M+

The block's largest owner, Bizness As Usual Inc, carries 75 open violations across 16 properties it owns around the city.

OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Bizness As Usual Inc316$3.7Mphila.gov ↗
Dreamchasers Llc110$1.9Mphila.gov ↗
Haverford Square By Metropolitan 2 Llc14$1.7Mphila.gov ↗
Rs Properties Llc13$320Kphila.gov ↗
De-Cat Inc12$711Kphila.gov ↗
Lancaster Partners Llc11$519Kphila.gov ↗
4130 Odgen Street Llc11$62Kphila.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).

Worth a look

AddressOwnershipValue & trendSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
5000 LANCASTER AVE Investor / LLC $107K 1925 0
5001-11 LANCASTER AVE Absentee individual $1.2M 1924 0
5002 LANCASTER AVE Absentee individual $116K 1925 0
5004-06 LANCASTER AVE Vacant $81K 0
5008 LANCASTER AVE Owner-occupied $85K 1915 0
5010-14 LANCASTER AVE Absentee individual $256K 1915 0
5013-15 LANCASTER AVE Investor / LLC $519K 1924 0 3 viol
5016 LANCASTER AVE Investor / LLC $199K 1915 0 15 viol
5017-19 LANCASTER AVE Absentee individual $208K 1925 0
5018-20 LANCASTER AVE Investor / LLC $157K 1915 0 9 viol
5021 LANCASTER AVE Owner-occupied $90K 1925 0
5023 LANCASTER AVE Owner-occupied $118K 1925 0
5025 LANCASTER AVE Investor / LLC $62K 1925 0
5027-33 LANCASTER AVE Absentee individual $447K 1924 0
5030 LANCASTER AVE Vacant $1.3M 0
5034 LANCASTER AVE Owner-occupied $599K 1915 0 5 viol
5035 LANCASTER AVE Absentee individual $110K 1920 0
5037 LANCASTER AVE Owner-occupied $61K 1920 0 4 viol
5039 LANCASTER AVE Absentee individual $61K 1920 0
5041 LANCASTER AVE Owner-occupied $77K 1920 0
5043 LANCASTER AVE Absentee individual $109K 1920 0
5045 LANCASTER AVE Absentee individual $92K 1920 0
5047 LANCASTER AVE Investor / LLC $142K 1920 0
5049-75 LANCASTER AVE Investor / LLC $1.1M 1946 0 3 viol

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.