5800 block of Bustleton Ave

How the block compares

The typical home here is $149K — about 0.7× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19149 median of $234K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19149 and across Philadelphia.

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 46 reported crimes (14 violent) and 77 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

• $149K typical home, up +65% since 2016
• Tax bill $1,137 to $877 a year, -2%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $6.1M assessed, $52,346/yr to the city, about $1,309 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, 17 of 40 homes pay that full rate — and 23 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: 5826 Bustleton Ave is assessed at $166K but pays $0 a year — about 0% of the $2,329 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 lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +4.7% 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 $165 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 64 arm's-length sales since 1993. The typical home has sold 2 times in that window, while 6 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 40 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

5826 Bustleton Ave

$166K · Bought for $100K in 2005, built new (tax-abated), sold for $112K in 2017.

New construction

5845 Bustleton Ave

$150K · Bought for $72K in 2004, built new under a 2007 permit (tax-abated), sold for $85K in 2017.

New construction

5805 Bustleton Ave

$145K · Bought for $46K in 2000, built new (tax-abated), sold for $85K in 2017.

Improved

5831 Bustleton Ave

$172K · Bought for $50K in 2016. Owner pulled a plumbing permit in 2010.

Improved

5840 Bustleton Ave

$161K · Bought for $85K in 2019. Owner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2021.

Improved

5842 Bustleton Ave

$161K · Bought for $125K in 2024. Owner pulled a plumbing permit in 2012.

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.