5700 block of Chestnut St

How the block compares

The typical home here is $159K — about 0.7× 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: 194 reported crimes (41 violent) and 259 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

• $159K typical home, up +107% since 2016
• Tax bill $775 to $2,076 a year, +9%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $9.1M assessed, $93,188/yr to the city, about $1,758 per home

Who really pays — each home's tax bill as a share of its value

Philadelphia charges every home the same 1.40% of its assessed value. On this block, 31 of 53 homes pay that full rate — and 22 pay less, because abatements and exemptions shrink the taxed value. Each dot is one home; the further left, the less of its value it pays. Hover a dot for the house.

The starkest example: 5702 Chestnut St is assessed at $453K but pays $2,118 a year — about 33% of the $6,335 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 tracked the Philadelphia market, compounding +6.8% 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 $207 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 43 arm's-length sales since 2000. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 24 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 53 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

Torn down & rebuilt

5714 Chestnut St

$37K · demolished in 2007 and rebuilt (2007), then sold for $35K in 2022.

New construction

5702 Chestnut St

$453K · built new under a 2019 permit (tax-abated), sold for $120K in 2019.

New construction

5709 Chestnut St

$346K · built new under a 2023 permit (tax-abated), sold for $70K in 2023.

New construction

5706 Chestnut St

$159K · Bought for $80K in 2021, built new under a 2021 permit, sold for $450K in 2023.

New construction

5710 Chestnut St

$133K · built new under a 2025 permit.

Renovated & sold on

5700 Chestnut St

$421K · Bought for $85K in 2005, electrical permit in 2010, sold for $340K in 2018 (+300%).

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