5900 block of Spring St

How the block compares

The typical home here is $98K — about 0.4× the citywide median, and below 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: 184 reported crimes (84 violent) and 358 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

• $98K typical home, up +219% since 2016
• Tax bill $431 to $1,081 a year, +9%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $3.3M assessed, $26,827/yr to the city, about $789 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, 19 of 34 homes pay that full rate — and 15 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: 5938 Spring St is assessed at $176K but pays $798 a year — about 32% of the $2,466 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 +11.1% 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 $319 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 39 arm's-length sales since 2001. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 19 have not changed hands at all.

Who owns it

The block's largest owner, Jh Ventures 57 LLC, carries 16 open violations across 57 properties it owns around the city.

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 34 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

5938 Spring St

$176K · built new (tax-abated), sold for $18K in 2019.

New construction

5937 Spring St

$98K · Bought for $10K in 2012, built new (tax-abated), sold for $125K in 2023.

New construction

5936 Spring St

$98K · built new (tax-abated), sold for $90K in 2019.

Frequently traded

5923 Spring St

$174K · Traded 4×: $16K in 2008 → $95K in 2024 (+504%).

Frequently traded

5930 Spring St

$102K · Traded 4×: $850K in 2004 → $5.1M in 2023 (+500%).

Frequently traded

5932 Spring St

$101K · Traded 4×: $19K in 2001 → $60K in 2021 (+209%).

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.