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Who owns your block

5100 block of Torresdale Ave

A mostly owner-occupied block: 60% of homes are lived in by their owners, with 1 open code violation and 2 homes behind $8,167 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 80% since 2016, now about $160K. Property taxes are climbing about 4% 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
$160K
$32K–$476K
ZIP median $170K
Price / sq ft
$109
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
0.7×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$2K
typical · up to $7K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
1 of 15
$8K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
60%
9 of 15
city 41%
Rentals
27%
4 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
1
L&I code
▲ block 7% · city 5%
Back taxes
$8K
2 of 15 behind
▲ block 13% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
4
3 homes · ZBA & boards
block 20% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+0%
value · tax +$104
5 years
+47%
value · tax +$631
10 years
+80%
value · tax +$703

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 $160K — about 0.7× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19124 median of $170K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19124 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19124Philadelphia
Median home value$160K$170K$223K
Owner-occupied27%40%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 162 reported crimes (63 violent) and 242 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
162
63 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
242
72 still open

Most reported crimes

All Other Offenses35
Other Assaults33
Motor Vehicle Theft17
Weapon Violations14
Thefts12
Fraud11

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection51
Maintenance Complaint49
Abandoned Vehicle47
Street Defect13
Graffiti Removal12
Illegal Dumping12

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
Mastery Charter School At Smedley
Middle · 6-8
Warren G Harding
2000 Wakeling St · 522 students
High · 9-12
Frankford HS
5000 Oxford Ave · 908 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$125K$250K$160K2016: $89K2017: $89K2018: $90K2019: $108K2020: $109K2021: $109K2022: $109K2023: $133K2024: $133K2025: $159K2026: $159K2027: $160K2016202020232027

▲ +80% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$1,000$2,000$1,9432016: $1,2402017: $1,2402018: $1,2402019: $1,2992020: $1,3122021: $1,3122022: $1,3122023: $1,6172024: $1,6172025: $1,8392026: $1,8392027: $1,9432016202020232027

▲ +57% since 2016 · ~+4%/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 $7,833 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%
$0pays now $2,234at the full rate

5112 Torresdale Ave is assessed at $160K but pays $0 a year — about 0% of the $2,234 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 lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +5.5% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 180 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $180 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+5.5%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+80%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+5.5%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+2.5%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-1 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 20 arm's-length sales since 2002. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 3 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$250K$500K20042008201220162020
20arm's-length sales since 2002
1times the typical home has sold
3most sales for a single property
3homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 15 parcels

Owner-occupied: 9Investor / LLC: 1Absentee individual: 4Vacant: 1 15parcels
  • Owner-occupied 9
  • Investor / LLC 1
  • Absentee individual 4
  • Vacant 1

Value distribution today

1 parcels4 parcels5 parcels2 parcels0 parcels0 parcels3 parcels
$32K$419K+

The block's largest owner, Philadelphia Home Rentals Llc, carries 18 open violations across 199 properties it owns around the city.

OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Philadelphia Home Rentals Llc1199$24Mphila.gov ↗
Toska Philly Group Llc11$156Kphila.gov ↗
Lakay Northeast Llc11$476Kphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 15 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
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
5100 TORRESDALE AVE Traded 3×: $73K in 2004 → $168K in 2020 (+130%). Absentee individual $201K 3/3 1,590 1945 3 rented
5101 TORRESDALE AVE Traded 2×: $49K in 2003 → $70K in 2017 (+43%). Investor / LLC $156K 3/2 1,012 1910 2 1 violtax lien
5102 TORRESDALE AVE Owner-occupied $171K 3/1 1,502 1945 0
5103-13 TORRESDALE AVE Owner-occupied $419K —/— 5,154 1990 0
5104-06 TORRESDALE AVE Owner-occupied $199K 3/1 2,459 1945 1 rented
5108 TORRESDALE AVE Traded 3×: $257K in 2002 → $60K in 2017 (-77%). Owner-occupied $137K 3/1 1,248 1945 3
5110 TORRESDALE AVE Owner-occupied $136K 3/1 1,248 1945 1 rented
5112 TORRESDALE AVE Absentee individual $160K 3/1 1,718 1945 0 abated
5116-18 TORRESDALE AVE Absentee individual $138K —/— 1,302 1945 1
5117 TORRESDALE AVE Traded 3×: $54K in 2003 → $245K in 2017 (+358%). Owner-occupied $399K 4/4 2,628 1962 3
5120-26 TORRESDALE AVE Absentee individual $149K —/— 697 1945 1
5128 TORRESDALE AVE Bought for $99K in 2016. Vacant $32K —/— 1
5130-32 TORRESDALE AVE Traded 2×: $218K in 2011 → $430K in 2021 (+97%). Owner-occupied $476K —/— 3,000 1945 2 rented
5134 TORRESDALE AVE Owner-occupied $139K —/— 1,388 1945 1
5136 TORRESDALE AVE Owner-occupied $192K —/— 1,922 1945 1 tax lien

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.