Who owns your block
5200 block of Wakefield St
A mixed-ownership block: 35% owner-occupied, 32% investor-held, with 4 homes behind $36,862 on taxes.
The typical home here is up 90% since 2016, now about $130K. Property taxes are climbing about 3% a year and the increases are speeding up.
- 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 $130K — about 0.6× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19144 median of $201K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19144 and across Philadelphia.
| This block | ZIP 19144 | Philadelphia | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $130K | $201K | $223K |
| Owner-occupied | 23% | 40% | 41% |
Safety & quality of life
Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 87 reported crimes (33 violent) and 136 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
- $130K typical home, up +90% since 2016
- Tax bill $766 to $1,020 a year, +3%/yr and compounding
- Whole block: $3.5M assessed, $32,617/yr to the city, about $1,052 per home
Median assessed value · 2016–2027
▲ +90% since 2016
Estimated property tax · per home, per year
▲ +33% since 2016 · ~+3%/yr
Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home
5200 Wakefield St is assessed at $262K but pays $0 a year — about 0% of the $3,673 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
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.
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 25 arm's-length sales since 1997. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 15 have not changed hands at all.
Every recorded sale · price & date
Who owns it
Ownership of 31 parcels
- Owner-occupied 11
- Investor / LLC 4
- Absentee individual 6
- Vacant 10
Value distribution today
The block's largest owner, S3 Enterprises Llc, carries 7 open violations across 77 properties it owns around the city.
| Owner | On block | Owns citywide | Portfolio value | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S3 Enterprises Llc | 1 | 77 | $6.7M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Civetta Property Group Limited Liability | 1 | 75 | $8.3M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Philly Sfr Iv Llc | 1 | 36 | $4.1M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Vincents Homes Inc | 1 | 17 | $2.7M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Cara & Associates Llc | 1 | 13 | $342K | phila.gov ↗ |
| Main Development Group In | 2 | 7 | $384K | phila.gov ↗ |
| Dag Investment And Development Llc | 1 | 2 | $1.5M | phila.gov ↗ |
| Luthor Llc | 1 | 2 | $68K | phila.gov ↗ |
| Balboa Estates Llc | 1 | 1 | $130K | phila.gov ↗ |
House by house
All 31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5200 WAKEFIELD ST New constructionBought for $107K in 2021, built new (tax-abated), sold for $317K in 2025. | Owner-occupied | $262K | 4/2 | 1,876 | 1925 | 3 | abated |
| 5201 WAKEFIELD ST Historysold $95K (2013); Appeal withdrawn (2014); Appeal granted (2014). | Owner-occupied | $268K | —/— | 4,976 | 1915 | 1 | tax lien |
| 5202 WAKEFIELD ST | Owner-occupied | $130K | 3/1 | 1,100 | 1925 | 1 | rented |
| 5204 WAKEFIELD ST | Investor / LLC | $130K | 3/1 | 1,100 | 1925 | 1 | rented |
| 5206 WAKEFIELD ST | Owner-occupied | $132K | 3/1 | 1,100 | 1925 | 0 | |
| 5207 WAKEFIELD ST | Investor / LLC | $64K | 3/1 | 960 | 1925 | 1 | |
| 5208 WAKEFIELD ST Improved | Vacant | $10K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 5209 WAKEFIELD ST | Absentee individual | $115K | 3/1 | 840 | 1925 | 1 | tax lien |
| 5210 WAKEFIELD ST TradedTraded 2×: $35K in 2007 → $20K in 2014 (-43%). | Owner-occupied | $133K | 3/1 | 1,100 | 1925 | 2 | |
| 5211 WAKEFIELD ST | Vacant | $11K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 5212-14 WAKEFIELD ST | Vacant | $42K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 5218 WAKEFIELD ST | Vacant | $9K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 5220 WAKEFIELD ST | Vacant | $10K | —/— | — | — | 0 | tax lien |
| 5222 WAKEFIELD ST Historysold $2K (2025); Appeal denied (2026). | Vacant | $15K | —/— | — | — | 1 | |
| 5224 WAKEFIELD ST | Absentee individual | $77K | 2/1 | 340 | 1920 | 0 | rented |
| 5226 WAKEFIELD ST | Owner-occupied | $128K | 3/1 | 1,032 | 1920 | 0 | rented |
| 5227 WAKEFIELD ST TradedTraded 2×: $40K in 2007 → $100K in 2008 (+150%). | Absentee individual | $139K | —/— | 1,364 | 1920 | 2 | rented |
| 5228 WAKEFIELD ST TradedTraded 2×: $75K in 2022 → $90K in 2024 (+20%). | Absentee individual | $121K | 2/1 | 990 | 1920 | 2 | tax lien |
| 5229 WAKEFIELD ST New constructionBought for $36K in 2012, built new (tax-abated), sold for $102K in 2020. | Investor / LLC | $181K | 3/1 | 2,376 | 1925 | 2 | rentedabated |
| 5230 WAKEFIELD ST | Vacant | $12K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 5231 WAKEFIELD ST | Owner-occupied | $195K | 4/1 | 2,376 | 1925 | 1 | rented |
| 5232 WAKEFIELD ST | Vacant | $9K | —/— | — | — | 0 | tax lien |
| 5233 WAKEFIELD ST TradedTraded 2×: $205K in 1997 → $48K in 2005 (-77%). | Absentee individual | $184K | 4/1 | 2,376 | 1925 | 2 | rented |
| 5235 WAKEFIELD ST | Owner-occupied | $184K | 4/1 | 2,376 | 1925 | 1 | tax lien |
| 5237 WAKEFIELD ST | Investor / LLC | $130K | 3/1 | 1,132 | 1925 | 1 | rented |
| 5239-43 WAKEFIELD ST | Vacant | $61K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 5245 WAKEFIELD ST | Absentee individual | $184K | 4/1 | 1,540 | 1925 | 0 | |
| 5247 WAKEFIELD ST Frequently tradedTraded 3×: $31K in 2004 → $240K in 2025 (+674%). | Owner-occupied | $173K | 3/1 | 1,344 | 1925 | 3 | |
| 5249 WAKEFIELD ST Improved | Vacant | $44K | —/— | — | — | 0 | |
| 5255 WAKEFIELD ST | Owner-occupied | $179K | —/— | 1,440 | 1925 | 0 | |
| 5257 WAKEFIELD ST | Owner-occupied | $178K | —/— | 1,440 | 1925 | 0 |
Neighborhood
Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.
Generated 2026-07-08 from public City of Philadelphia records · Download this block's data (CSV)