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Who owns your block

6600 block of W Girard Ave

A mostly owner-occupied block: 93% of homes are lived in by their owners, with 1 open code violation.

The typical home here is up 79% since 2016, now about $224K. 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
$224K
$165K–$343K
ZIP median $189K
Price / sq ft
$156
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
1.0×
the city median
city $223K
Recent sale
$264K
1 sold in 2yr
assessed $224K
Tax / yr
$2K
typical · up to $4K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
1 of 15
$22K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
93%
14 of 15
city 41%
Rentals
13%
2 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
1
L&I code
▲ block 7% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
2
1 home · ZBA & boards
block 7% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+7%
value · tax +$123
5 years
+89%
value · tax +$357
10 years
+79%
value · tax +$367

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 $224K — about 1.0× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19151 median of $189K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19151 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19151Philadelphia
Median home value$224K$189K$223K
Owner-occupied80%54%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 58 reported crimes (28 violent) and 235 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
58
28 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
235
46 still open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults25
Motor Vehicle Theft10
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief7
Theft from Vehicle3
Thefts3
All Other Offenses2

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection68
Maintenance Complaint31
Abandoned Vehicle20
Other (Streets)15
Street Defect14
Illegal Dumping12

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
Lewis C Cassidy
6523 Lansdowne Ave · 363 students
High · 9-12
Overbrook High
5898 Lancaster Ave · 466 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$224K2016: $125K2017: $125K2018: $125K2019: $114K2020: $118K2021: $118K2022: $118K2023: $186K2024: $186K2025: $210K2026: $210K2027: $224K2016202020232027

▲ +79% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$1,000$2,000$1,7302016: $1,3372017: $1,3632018: $1,3372019: $1,3692020: $1,3732021: $1,3732022: $1,3732023: $1,7512024: $1,7512025: $1,6072026: $1,6072027: $1,7302016202020232027

▲ +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 $21,600 a year off the tax roll. Read the tax figures with that in mind.

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:

2 homes pay the full 1.40%13 pay less
$0pays now $4,803at the full rate

The starkest example: 6629-37 W Girard Ave is assessed at $343K but pays $0 a year — about 0% of the $4,803 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 +5.5% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9110025020162019202220252027This block 179 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $179 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+5.5%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+79%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+5.5%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+2.5%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-1 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 13 arm's-length sales since 2000. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 6 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$250K$500K200020052010201520202025
13arm's-length sales since 2000
1times the typical home has sold
3most sales for a single property
6homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 15 parcels

Owner-occupied: 14Absentee individual: 1 15parcels
  • Owner-occupied 14
  • Absentee individual 1

Value distribution today

1 parcels2 parcels6 parcels2 parcels2 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$165K$312K+

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

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$250K$500K201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
6601 W GIRARD AVE Owner-occupied $229K 3/1 1,440 1925 0
6603 W GIRARD AVE Owner-occupied $218K 3/1 1,404 1925 1
6605 W GIRARD AVE Bought for $128K in 2016. Owner pulled a electrical permit in 2016. Owner-occupied $222K 3/1 1,404 1925 1
6607 W GIRARD AVE Owner-occupied $224K 3/1 1,404 1925 0
6609 W GIRARD AVE Traded 2×: $69K in 2012 → $170K in 2016 (+146%). Owner-occupied $312K 3/1 1,404 1925 2
6611 W GIRARD AVE Traded 3×: $135K in 2011 → $264K in 2025 (+96%). Owner-occupied $243K 3/1 1,404 1950 3 rented
6613 W GIRARD AVE sold $64K (2001); 5 L&I violations (2007); Appeal moot (2010); 2 L&I violations (2014); L&I violation (2022); L&I violation (2024); Appeal complete (2024). Owner-occupied $165K —/— 1,404 1920 1 rented
6615 W GIRARD AVE Owner-occupied $219K 3/1 1,404 1925 1
6617 W GIRARD AVE Bought for $72K in 2001, plumbing permit in 2007, sold for $150K in 2008 (+108%). Owner-occupied $218K 3/1 1,404 1950 2
6619 W GIRARD AVE Owner-occupied $255K 3/1 1,440 1925 1
6621 W GIRARD AVE Owner-occupied $224K 3/1 1,404 1925 0
6623 W GIRARD AVE Owner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2025. Owner-occupied $201K 3/1 1,404 1925 0 1 viol
6625 W GIRARD AVE Owner-occupied $201K 3/1 1,404 1925 0
6627 W GIRARD AVE Owner-occupied $261K 4/1 1,996 1925 1
6629-37 W GIRARD AVE built new under a 2019 permit (tax-abated). Absentee individual $343K —/— 5,470 1930 0 abated

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.