600 block of Cantrell St

How the block compares

The typical home here is $259K — about 1.2× the citywide median, and in line with the ZIP 19148 median of $261K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19148 and across Philadelphia.

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 139 reported crimes (42 violent) and 337 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

• $259K typical home, up +409% since 2016
• Tax bill $659 to $1,907 a year, +10%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $11M assessed, $97,541/yr to the city, about $2,636 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:

• 621 Cantrell Sttax-abated new construction0.28%$1,422/yr on $508K
• 623 Cantrell Sttax-abated new construction0.28%$1,402/yr on $501K
• 620 Cantrell Sttax-abated new construction0.28%$1,383/yr on $494K
• 618 Cantrell Sttax-abated new construction0.28%$1,238/yr on $442K
• 630 Cantrell Sttax-abated new construction0.28%$1,308/yr on $467K
• …and 13 more paying under the full rate — the gold-ringed bubbles in the makeup chart

The starkest example: 621 Cantrell St is assessed at $508K but pays $1,422 a year — about 20% of the $7,111 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 +15.9% 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 $509 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 67 arm's-length sales since 2000. The typical home has sold 2 times in that window, while 11 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 37 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

618 Cantrell St

$442K · Old house bought for $34K in 2016, demolished and rebuilt (2017), then sold for $372K in 2022.

New construction

621 Cantrell St

$508K · Bought for $3K in 2014, built new under a 2018 permit (tax-abated), sold for $385K in 2020.

New construction

623 Cantrell St

$501K · Bought for $130K in 2018, built new under a 2018 permit (tax-abated), sold for $358K in 2019.

New construction

617 Cantrell St

$494K · Bought for $6K in 2006, built new under a 2019 permit, sold for $425K in 2021.

New construction

620 Cantrell St

$494K · Bought for $75K in 2018, built new under a 2019 permit (tax-abated), sold for $385K in 2020.

New construction

627 Cantrell St

$486K · Bought for $1K in 2017, built new under a 2017 permit (tax-abated), sold for $370K in 2023.

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.