600 block of S 56th St

How the block compares

The typical home here is $143K — about 0.6× the citywide median, and below 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: 106 reported crimes (37 violent) and 293 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

• $143K typical home, up +83% since 2016
• Tax bill $1,071 to $1,967 a year, +6%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $5.1M assessed, $68,723/yr to the city, about $2,083 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, 30 of 33 homes pay that full rate — and 3 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: 614 S 56th St is assessed at $101K but pays $0 a year — about 0% of the $1,408 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 +5.6% 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 $183 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 40 arm's-length sales since 1998. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 10 have not changed hands at all.

Who owns it

The block's largest owner, Zereshk LLC, carries 2 open violations across 19 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 33 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

628 S 56th St

$17K · demolished in 2015 and rebuilt (2025), then sold for $60K in 2004.

Renovated & sold on

636 S 56th St

$238K · Bought for $1K in 2002, addition and/or alteration permit in 2020, sold for $245K in 2021 (+22173%).

Improved

617-31 S 56th St

$1.1M · Bought for $50K in 2014. Owner pulled a electrical permit in 2007.

Improved

633 S 56th St

$232K · Bought for $250K in 2021. Owner pulled a change of use permit in 2022.

Improved

646 S 56th St

$209K · Owner pulled a plumbing permit in 2008.

Improved

611 S 56th St

$208K · Bought for $76K in 2009. Owner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2025.

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.