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Who owns your block

6500 block of Walker St

A mostly owner-occupied block: 82% of homes are lived in by their owners.

The typical home here is up 82% since 2016, now about $214K. Property taxes are climbing about 6% 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
$214K
$206K–$241K
ZIP median $207K
Price / sq ft
$182
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
1.0×
the city median
city $223K
Recent sale
$215K
4 sold in 2yr
assessed $214K
Tax / yr
$3K
typical · up to $3K
city ≈$3K/yr
Median built
1950
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
82%
23 of 28
city 41%
Rentals
18%
5 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
0%
value · tax +$0
5 years
+69%
value · tax +$1K
10 years
+82%
value · tax +$1K

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 $214K — about 1.0× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19135 median of $207K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19135 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19135Philadelphia
Median home value$214K$207K$223K
Owner-occupied36%44%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 83 reported crimes (24 violent) and 168 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
83
24 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
168
29 still open

Most reported crimes

Motor Vehicle Theft18
Other Assaults17
All Other Offenses10
Thefts10
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief8
Theft from Vehicle5

Top 311 complaints

Maintenance Complaint54
Abandoned Vehicle24
Illegal Dumping16
Information Request14
Construction Complaints12
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection10

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 · K-8
Hamilton Disston
6801 Cottage St · 686 students
High · 9-12
Abraham Lincoln
3201 Ryan Ave · 2332 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$125K$250K$214K2016: $118K2017: $118K2018: $118K2019: $121K2020: $126K2021: $126K2022: $126K2023: $177K2024: $177K2025: $214K2026: $214K2027: $214K2016202020232027

▲ +82% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$2,500$5,000$2,8792016: $1,5922017: $1,5922018: $1,5922019: $1,6492020: $1,7192021: $1,7192022: $1,7192023: $2,3632024: $2,3632025: $2,8792026: $2,8792027: $2,8792016202020232027

▲ +81% since 2016 · ~+6%/yr

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:

18 homes pay the full 1.40%10 pay less

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

9510025020162019202220252027This block 182 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $182 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+5.6%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+82%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+5.6%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+2.6%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-0.9 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 43 arm's-length sales since 2001. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 5 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$125K$250K20052010201520202025
43arm's-length sales since 2001
1times the typical home has sold
5most sales for a single property
5homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 28 parcels

Owner-occupied: 23Investor / LLC: 2Absentee individual: 3 28parcels
  • Owner-occupied 23
  • Investor / LLC 2
  • Absentee individual 3

Value distribution today

11 parcels12 parcels0 parcels0 parcels1 parcels1 parcels3 parcels
$206K$236K+

The block's largest owner, Wang Brothers 168 LLC, carries 1 open violation across 8 properties it owns around the city.

OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Wang Brothers 168 LLC18$1.8Mphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗
Castor 1628 LLC16$1.4Mphila.gov ↗ · registry ↗

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 28 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$125K$250K201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median

Worth a look

AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
6501 WALKER ST Traded 5×: $69K in 2001 → $210K in 2024 (+204%). Absentee individual $236K 3/2 1,296 1950 5 rented
6503 WALKER ST Owner-occupied $214K —/1 1,152 1950 1
6505 WALKER ST Traded 2×: $78K in 2015 → $220K in 2025 (+182%). Owner-occupied $214K —/1 1,152 1950 2
6507 WALKER ST Traded 2×: $118K in 2006 → $188K in 2021 (+59%). Investor / LLC $206K 3/2 1,152 1950 2 rented
6509 WALKER ST Traded 2×: $68K in 2002 → $123K in 2017 (+80%). Owner-occupied $206K —/1 1,152 1950 2
6511 WALKER ST Traded 2×: $58K in 2014 → $100K in 2022 (+72%). Absentee individual $206K —/1 1,152 1950 2
6513 WALKER ST Owner-occupied $214K —/1 1,152 1950 1
6515 WALKER ST Owner-occupied $214K —/1 1,152 1950 0
6517 WALKER ST Owner-occupied $206K —/1 1,152 1950 0
6519 WALKER ST Owner-occupied $214K —/1 1,152 1950 0
6521 WALKER ST Traded 3×: $75K in 2004 → $117K in 2007 (+56%). Owner-occupied $206K —/1 1,152 1950 3
6523 WALKER ST Traded 2×: $126K in 2018 → $110K in 2025 (-12%). Investor / LLC $206K —/1 1,152 1950 2
6525 WALKER ST Owner-occupied $206K —/1 1,152 1950 1
6527 WALKER ST Traded 2×: $110K in 2004 → $135K in 2017 (+23%). Owner-occupied $228K —/1 1,326 1950 2
6529 WALKER ST Owner-occupied $237K —/1 1,326 1950 1
6531 WALKER ST Owner-occupied $214K —/1 1,152 1950 1
6533 WALKER ST Owner-occupied $214K —/1 1,152 1950 0
6535 WALKER ST Traded 3×: $53K in 2001 → $225K in 2022 (+325%). Owner-occupied $241K 3/1 1,152 1950 3
6537 WALKER ST Traded 3×: $69K in 2003 → $136K in 2020 (+99%). Absentee individual $206K 3/1 1,152 1950 3 rented
6539 WALKER ST Owner-occupied $214K —/1 1,152 1950 0
6541 WALKER ST Owner-occupied $214K —/1 1,152 1950 1
6543 WALKER ST Owner-occupied $214K —/1 1,152 1950 1
6545 WALKER ST Traded 2×: $100K in 2009 → $215K in 2023 (+115%). Owner-occupied $206K 3/1 1,152 1950 2 tax lien
6547 WALKER ST Owner-occupied $206K —/1 1,152 1950 1 rented
6549 WALKER ST Owner-occupied $206K —/1 1,152 1950 1 rented
6551 WALKER ST Owner-occupied $214K —/1 1,152 1950 1
6553 WALKER ST Traded 2×: $64K in 2002 → $85K in 2003 (+34%). Owner-occupied $214K —/1 1,152 1950 2
6555 WALKER ST Traded 3×: $120K in 2005 → $177K in 2018 (+47%). Owner-occupied $226K —/1 1,296 1950 3

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.