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Who owns your block

6500 block of N 8th St

A mostly owner-occupied block: 80% of homes are lived in by their owners, with 1 open code violation and 2 homes behind $13,581 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 54% since 2016, now about $349K. Property taxes are climbing about 2% 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
$349K
$295K–$1.1M
ZIP median $219K
Price / sq ft
$118
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
1.6×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$3K
typical · up to $16K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
1 of 15
$16K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
80%
12 of 15
city 41%
Rentals
13%
2 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
1
L&I code
▲ block 7% · city 5%
Back taxes
$14K
2 of 15 behind
▲ block 13% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
-15%
value · tax −$1K
5 years
+41%
value · tax +$541
10 years
+54%
value · tax +$704

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 $349K — about 1.6× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19126 median of $219K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19126 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19126Philadelphia
Median home value$349K$219K$223K
Owner-occupied60%60%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 30 reported crimes (12 violent) and 63 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
30
12 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
63
8 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults6
Aggravated Assault No Firearm5
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief4
Fraud3
Motor Vehicle Theft3
Theft from Vehicle3

Top 311 complaints

Street Defect14
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection11
Maintenance Complaint7
Salting6
Traffic (Other)5
Abandoned Vehicle3

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-5
Ellwood
6701 N 13th St · 252 students
Middle · 6-8
General Louis Wagner
1701 Chelten Ave · 294 students
High · 9-12
Martin Luther King
6100 Stenton Ave · 604 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$250K$500K$349K2016: $227K2017: $227K2018: $227K2019: $239K2020: $247K2021: $247K2022: $247K2023: $321K2024: $321K2025: $410K2026: $410K2027: $349K2016202020232027

▲ +54% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$2,500$5,000$3,4912016: $2,7142017: $2,7872018: $2,9052019: $2,9722020: $2,7752021: $2,7752022: $2,9502023: $3,3782024: $3,6732025: $4,5382026: $4,5382027: $3,4912016202020232027

▲ +29% since 2016 · ~+2%/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 $16,210 a year off the tax roll. Read the tax figures with that in mind.

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

1.40% — the statutory rate0%0.4%0.8%1.2%
$1,680pays now $5,291at the full rate

6510 N 8th St is assessed at $378K but pays $1,680 a year — about 32% of the $5,291 it would owe at the statutory rate, because its new-construction value is abated.

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +4% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 154 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $154 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+4%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+54%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+4%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+1%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-2.5 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 20 arm's-length sales since 1999. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 4 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$500K$1.0M20002005201020152020
20arm's-length sales since 1999
1times the typical home has sold
4most sales for a single property
4homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 15 parcels

Owner-occupied: 12Investor / LLC: 2Absentee individual: 1 15parcels
  • Owner-occupied 12
  • Investor / LLC 2
  • Absentee individual 1

Value distribution today

3 parcels7 parcels1 parcels1 parcels0 parcels1 parcels2 parcels
$295K$500K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Penn Properties Inc15$6.3Mphila.gov ↗
Northwest Owners Llc12$1.9Mphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 15 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$1.0M$2.0M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
6500 N 8TH ST Owner pulled a plumbing permit in 2018. Owner-occupied $353K —/— 2,807 1925 0
6501 N 8TH ST Bought for $150K in 2003. Owner pulled a major alteration permit in 2008. Owner-occupied $460K —/— 3,848 1925 1
6502 N 8TH ST Bought for $103K in 2004. Owner pulled a plumbing permit in 2017. Owner-occupied $330K —/— 3,050 1925 1
6504 N 8TH ST sold $120K (2002); L&I violation (2007); 3 L&I violations (2014). Owner-occupied $345K —/— 3,648 1925 1
6505 N 8TH ST Bought for $110K in 2002. Owner pulled a parking only permit in 2025. Owner-occupied $388K —/— 2,856 1925 4 1 viol
6506 N 8TH ST Owner-occupied $349K —/— 2,664 1925 0
6508 N 8TH ST Owner-occupied $337K 6/3 3,432 1925 1
6509 N 8TH ST L&I violation (2010). Absentee individual $295K —/— 3,910 1925 0
6510 N 8TH ST built new under a 2012 permit (tax-abated), sold for $60K in 2001. Owner-occupied $378K —/— 3,129 1925 1 abated
6512 N 8TH ST Bought for $130K in 2017. Owner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2022. Owner-occupied $349K 6/2 2,340 1925 3
6514 N 8TH ST Owner-occupied $314K 7/2 2,960 1925 1
6515 N 8TH ST Traded 2×: $112K in 1999 → $200K in 2002 (+78%). Investor / LLC $500K —/— 4,232 1925 2 rented
6516 N 8TH ST Bought for $85K in 2008, electrical permit in 2009, sold for $275K in 2015 (+224%). Owner-occupied $319K 6/3 3,160 1925 3
6518 N 8TH ST Owner pulled a major alteration permit in 2016. Owner-occupied $336K —/— 2,800 1925 0
6523 N 8TH ST Bought for $91K in 2001. Owner pulled a use permit in 2015. Investor / LLC $1.1M —/— 10,392 1960 2 rented

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.

Generated 2026-07-09 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.