5900 block of Carpenter St

How the block compares

The typical home here is $226K — about 1.0× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19143 median of $152K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19143 and across Philadelphia.

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 87 reported crimes (34 violent) and 302 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

• $226K typical home, up +122% since 2016
• Tax bill $1,068 to $2,851 a year, +9%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $9.6M assessed, $110,547/yr to the city, about $2,632 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:

• 5909 Carpenter Sttax-abated new construction0.53%$1,827/yr on $347K
• 5917 Carpenter Sttax-abated new construction0.70%$1,088/yr on $155K
• 5932 Carpenter Stexemption0.71%$1,440/yr on $203K
• 5936 Carpenter Stexemption0.71%$1,440/yr on $203K
• 5912 Carpenter Stexemption0.78%$1,757/yr on $226K
• …and 13 more paying under the full rate — the gold-ringed bubbles in the makeup chart

The starkest example: 5909 Carpenter St is assessed at $347K but pays $1,827 a year — about 38% of the $4,862 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 +7.5% 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 $222 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 41 arm's-length sales since 2003. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 15 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

5909 Carpenter St

$347K · Bought for $62K in 2016, built new under a 2016 permit (tax-abated), sold for $310K in 2020.

New construction

5905 Carpenter St

$226K · built new under a 2013 permit (tax-abated).

New construction

5919 Carpenter St

$226K · built new (tax-abated), sold for $98K in 2006.

New construction

5929 Carpenter St

$226K · built new under a 2016 permit (tax-abated).

New construction

5917 Carpenter St

$155K · built new under a 2017 permit (tax-abated).

Renovated & sold on

5934 Carpenter St

$259K · Bought for $55K in 2003, plumbing permit in 2008, sold for $265K in 2020 (+382%).

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.