5400 block of Chestnut St

How the block compares

The typical home here is $275K — about 1.2× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19139 median of $133K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19139 and across Philadelphia.

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 132 reported crimes (47 violent) and 239 resident 311 requests to the city.

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

• $275K typical home, up +201% since 2016
• Tax bill $1,275 to $3,145 a year, +9%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $11M assessed, $137,886/yr to the city, about $3,283 per home

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:

• 5432 Chestnut Sttax-abated new construction0.23%$270/yr on $119K
• 5411 Chestnut Sttax-abated new construction0.37%$1,092/yr on $294K
• 5452 Chestnut Stexemption0.65%$1,225/yr on $188K
• 5425 Chestnut Stexemption0.69%$1,355/yr on $197K
• 5450 Chestnut Stexemption0.72%$1,503/yr on $207K
• …and 7 more paying under the full rate — the gold-ringed bubbles in the makeup chart

The starkest example: 5411 Chestnut St is assessed at $294K but pays $1,092 a year — about 27% of the $4,110 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 beaten the Philadelphia market, compounding +10.6% 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 $301 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced 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 20 arm's-length sales since 2002. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 29 have not changed hands at all.

Who owns it

The mailing address is where the assessor sends the tax bill — for an LLC, often the closest public record gets to the person behind it. "Registry" searches the owner's name in state incorporation records (OpenCorporates).

House by house

All 42 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

New construction

5411 Chestnut St

$294K · built new under a 2015 permit (tax-abated).

New construction

5417 Chestnut St

$288K · built new under a 2025 permit.

New construction

5408 Chestnut St

$275K · built new under a 2017 permit.

New construction

5432 Chestnut St

$119K · built new (tax-abated).

Renovated & sold on

5454 Chestnut St

$369K · Bought for $122K in 2020, change of use permit in 2023, sold for $445K in 2023 (+265%).

Improved

5429-55 Chestnut St

$1.0M · Owner pulled a suppression permit in 2017.

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.