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Who owns your block

600 block of E Thelma St

A mostly owner-occupied block: 63% of homes are lived in by their owners.

The typical home here is up 75% since 2016, now about $148K. Property taxes are climbing about 5% a year though the increases have eased lately.

Every parcel on the block, colored by who owns it. Tap a parcel for the owner and its city record.

By the Numbers

Median value
$148K
$140K–$155K
ZIP median $171K
Price / sq ft
$155
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
0.7×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$2K
typical · up to $2K
city ≈$3K/yr
Median built
1930
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
63%
5 of 8
city 41%
Rentals
25%
2 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+9%
value · tax −$80
5 years
+153%
value · tax +$883
10 years
+75%
value · tax +$604

Assessed-value change for the typical home. Philadelphia taxes a flat 1.3998% of value, so the bill moves with it.

The makeup of the block

Every home, plotted by size and assessed value — press play and watch the block reprice from 2016 to 2027. One bubble per house (area = lot size), colored by who owns it; a gold ring marks tax-abated new construction. Click a bubble for its report.

2027
  • Owner-occupied
  • Investor / LLC
  • Absentee
  • Vacant
  • Tax-abated
  • Bubble = lot size
  • → bigger interior  ·  ↑ higher value

Assessed values from the city's year-by-year assessment record — a proxy for price, lumpy in reassessment years.

How the block compares

The typical home here is $148K — about 0.7× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19120 median of $171K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19120 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19120Philadelphia
Median home value$148K$171K$223K
Owner-occupied50%48%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 109 reported crimes (31 violent) and 162 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
109
31 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
162
55 still open

Most reported crimes

All Other Offenses25
Motor Vehicle Theft17
Other Assaults17
Theft from Vehicle12
Thefts11
Aggravated Assault No Firearm5

Top 311 complaints

Abandoned Vehicle37
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection30
Maintenance Complaint18
Illegal Dumping16
Construction Complaints10
Street Defect8

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.

Elementary · K-2
Clara Barton
4600 Rosehill St · 423 students
Middle
Feltonville School Of Arts And Sciences
High · 9-12
Olney High School
100 W Duncannon Ave · 1036 students

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

Median assessed value · 2016–2027

$0$100K$200K$148K2016: $84K2017: $84K2018: $84K2019: $76K2020: $58K2021: $58K2022: $58K2023: $125K2024: $125K2025: $135K2026: $135K2027: $148K2016202020232027

▲ +75% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$1,000$2,000$1,3862016: $7822017: $7822018: $7822019: $5222020: $5032021: $5032022: $5032023: $1,6952024: $1,2012025: $1,4662026: $1,4662027: $1,3862016202020232027

▲ +77% since 2016 · ~+5%/yr

Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home

1.40% — the statutory rate0%0.4%0.8%1.2%

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +5.2% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

6910025020162019202220252027This block 175 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $175 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+5.2%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+75%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+5.2%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+2.2%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-1.3 pts
market 6.5%/yr

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 9 arm's-length sales since 1998. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 2 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$100K$200K20002005201020152020
9arm's-length sales since 1998
1times the typical home has sold
3most sales for a single property
2homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 8 parcels

Owner-occupied: 5Investor / LLC: 1Absentee individual: 2 8parcels
  • Owner-occupied 5
  • Investor / LLC 1
  • Absentee individual 2

Value distribution today

1 parcels1 parcels1 parcels1 parcels1 parcels1 parcels2 parcels
$140K$152K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Bhigh Consulting Llc11$143Kphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 8 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

$0$100K$200K201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
610 E THELMA ST Owner-occupied $155K 3/1 961 1930 1
612 E THELMA ST Owner-occupied $152K 3/1 961 1930 0
614 E THELMA ST Owner-occupied $150K 3/1 960 1930 0
616 E THELMA ST Owner-occupied $149K 3/1 960 1930 1
618 E THELMA ST Absentee individual $147K 3/1 960 1930 1 rented
620 E THELMA ST Traded 3×: $55K in 2004 → $53K in 2018 (-3%). Absentee individual $145K 3/1 960 1930 3
622 E THELMA ST Traded 2×: $74K in 2016 → $59K in 2020 (-21%). Investor / LLC $143K 3/1 960 1930 2 rented
624 E THELMA ST Owner-occupied $140K 2/1 960 1930 1

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.

Generated 2026-07-08 from public City of Philadelphia records  ·  Download this block's data (CSV)

Where this comes from

City datasets are fetched live from OpenDataPhilly (phl.carto.com) and cached briefly. AI-written passages are generated from these records only and rejected if they state a number the record doesn't hold.