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Who owns your block

5500 block of Chester Ave

A mixed-ownership block: 23% owner-occupied, 21% investor-held, with 25 open code violations and 6 homes behind $30,794 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
$140K
$18K–$406K
Recent sale
$80K
3 sold in 2yr
assessed $140K
Median built
1915
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
23%
8 of 39
Open violations
25
L&I code
▲ block 18% · city 5%
Back taxes
$31K
6 of 39 behind
▲ block 15% · city 9%

Schools

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

Elementary & Middle · K-8
Weir Mitchell
5500 Kingsessing Ave · 271 students
High · 9-12
John Bartram
2401 S 67th St · 594 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 39 parcels

Owner-occupied: 8Investor / LLC: 8Absentee individual: 19Vacant: 4 39parcels
  • Owner-occupied 8
  • Investor / LLC 8
  • Absentee individual 19
  • Vacant 4

Value distribution today

4 parcels11 parcels8 parcels8 parcels2 parcels2 parcels4 parcels
$18K$329K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
2119 Investments Llc23$508Kphila.gov ↗
Tamo Properties Llc22$334Kphila.gov ↗
Arasa Property Llc11$140Kphila.gov ↗
Bmj Realty11$406Kphila.gov ↗
Breakeven Realty Llc11$181Kphila.gov ↗
4813 Frankford Inc11$358Kphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 39 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
5500 CHESTER AVE Vacant $56K 0
5501-05 CHESTER AVE Absentee individual $270K 1915 0 1 viol
5504 CHESTER AVE Owner-occupied $243K 1925 0
5506 CHESTER AVE Absentee individual $142K 1915 0
5507 CHESTER AVE Absentee individual $104K 1915 0
5508 CHESTER AVE Owner-occupied $124K 1915 0
5509 CHESTER AVE Absentee individual $85K 1915 0
5510-14 CHESTER AVE Absentee individual $325K 1925 0
5511 CHESTER AVE Owner-occupied $89K 1915 0
5513 CHESTER AVE Absentee individual $100K 1915 0 9 viol
5515 CHESTER AVE Absentee individual $163K 1915 0
5516 CHESTER AVE Absentee individual $145K 1915 0
5517-19 CHESTER AVE Owner-occupied $196K 1915 0 4 viol
5518 CHESTER AVE Investor / LLC $140K 1915 0 2 viol
5520-26 CHESTER AVE Investor / LLC $406K 1915 0
5521 CHESTER AVE Owner-occupied $85K 1920 0
5523 CHESTER AVE Owner-occupied $85K 1915 0
5525 CHESTER AVE Vacant $18K 0
5527 CHESTER AVE Absentee individual $77K 1915 0
5528 CHESTER AVE Owner-occupied $158K 1915 0 2 viol
5529 CHESTER AVE Absentee individual $100K 1915 0 1 viol
5530 CHESTER AVE Owner-occupied $163K 1915 0
5531 CHESTER AVE Absentee individual $129K 1915 0
5532 CHESTER AVE Absentee individual $167K 1915 0
5533 CHESTER AVE Investor / LLC $166K 1915 0
5534 CHESTER AVE Absentee individual $164K 1915 0
5535-37 CHESTER AVE Investor / LLC $195K 1915 0
5536 CHESTER AVE Absentee individual $142K 1915 0
5538 CHESTER AVE Investor / LLC $134K 1915 0
5539 CHESTER AVE Absentee individual $80K 1915 0 6 viol
5540 CHESTER AVE Investor / LLC $200K 1915 0
5541 CHESTER AVE Absentee individual $92K 1915 0
5542 CHESTER AVE Absentee individual $132K 1921 0
5543 CHESTER AVE Absentee individual $101K 1915 0
5544-46 CHESTER AVE Absentee individual $329K 1915 0
5545 CHESTER AVE Vacant $18K 0
5547 CHESTER AVE Investor / LLC $181K 1915 0
5548-50 CHESTER AVE Investor / LLC $358K 1915 0
5552 CHESTER AVE Vacant $56K 0

Neighborhood

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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.