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Who owns your block

600 block of S Chris Columbus Blvd

A mixed-ownership block: 0% owner-occupied, 0% investor-held, with 3 open code violations.

The typical home here is up 315% since 2016, now about $8.5M. Property taxes are climbing about 3% a year.

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
$8.5M
$5.1M–$12M
ZIP median $461K
Price / sq ft
$225
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
38.1×
the city median
city $223K
Tax abatements
1 of 2
$238K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
0%
0 of 2
city 41%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
3
L&I code
▲ block 50% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+0%
value · tax +$0
5 years
+89%
value · tax −$26K
10 years
+315%
value · tax +$0

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

How the block compares

The typical home here is $8.5M — about 38.1× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19147 median of $461K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19147 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19147Philadelphia
Median home value$8.5M$461K$223K
Owner-occupied0%38%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 6 reported crimes (2 violent) and 4 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
6
2 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
4
to the city

Most reported crimes

Thefts2
Aggravated Assault No Firearm1
Motor Vehicle Theft1
Other Assaults1
Theft from Vehicle1

Top 311 complaints

Graffiti Removal2
Information Request1
Other (Streets)1

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 & Middle
General George A Mccall
High · 9-12
Benjamin HS Franklin
616 N 15th St · 975 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$10M$20M$8.5M2016: $2.0M2017: $2.0M2018: $3.5M2019: $4.5M2020: $4.5M2021: $4.5M2022: $4.5M2023: $8.3M2024: $8.3M2025: $8.5M2026: $8.5M2027: $8.5M2016202020232027

▲ +315% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$25,000$50,000$30,0102021: $26,1742022: $26,1742023: $31,9022024: $31,9022025: $30,0102021202220242025

▲ +15% since 2021 · ~+3%/yr

1
1 property on this block carry a tax abatement or major exemption. New construction and gut rehabs get the improvement value exempted for up to 10 years, so their tax bills sit far below their real value — block-wide, exemptions keep about $237,832 a year off the tax roll. Read the tax figures with that in mind.

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has beaten the Philadelphia market, compounding +13.8% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510050020162019202220252027This block 415 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $415 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block outpaced the market.

Annualized return
+13.8%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+315%
since 2016
Net rental yield
0.1%
est., after tax carry
Total return
+13.9%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+10.9%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
+7.3 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.

Who owns it

Ownership of 2 parcels

Absentee individual: 1Vacant: 1 2parcels
  • Absentee individual 1
  • Vacant 1

Value distribution today

1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels1 parcels
$5.1M$5.1M+

No multi-home or corporate owners on this block — every home has its own owner.

House by house

All 2 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$10M$20M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
601 S CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS BLVD Vacant $12M 0 3 viol
611 S CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS BLVD Absentee individual $5.1M 22,738 1900 0 abated

Neighborhood

Median income
$169K
household
Own vs. rent
56%
owner-occupied
Median age
56.9
residents
Median rent
$3K
gross monthly

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.