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Who owns your block

6800 block of Sprague St

A mostly owner-occupied block: 82% of homes are lived in by their owners, with 2 open code violations and 5 homes behind $54,106 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 82% since 2016, now about $240K. Property taxes are climbing about 5% a year and the increases are speeding up.

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
$240K
$212K–$506K
ZIP median $374K
Price / sq ft
$221
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
1.1×
the city median
city $223K
Recent sale
$238K
2 sold in 2yr
assessed $240K
Tax / yr
$3K
typical · up to $6K
city ≈$3K/yr
Median built
1945
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
82%
23 of 28
city 41%
Rentals
4%
1 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
2
L&I code
▼ block 4% · city 5%
Back taxes
$54K
5 of 28 behind
▲ block 18% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
1
1 home · ZBA & boards
block 4% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+3%
value · tax +$161
5 years
+104%
value · tax +$2K
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 $240K — about 1.1× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19119 median of $374K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19119 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19119Philadelphia
Median home value$240K$374K$223K
Owner-occupied54%63%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 32 reported crimes (11 violent) and 139 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
32
11 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
139
14 still open

Most reported crimes

Motor Vehicle Theft9
Other Assaults8
Theft from Vehicle4
Thefts3
Fraud2
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief2

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection34
Abandoned Vehicle19
Maintenance Complaint17
Salting14
Illegal Dumping9
Other (Streets)8

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
Eleanor C Emlen
6501 Chew Ave · 261 students
Middle · K-8
Theodore Roosevelt
430 E Washington Ln · 407 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$240K2016: $132K2017: $132K2018: $132K2019: $123K2020: $118K2021: $118K2022: $118K2023: $188K2024: $188K2025: $234K2026: $234K2027: $240K2016202020232027

▲ +82% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$2,500$5,000$2,9732016: $1,7712017: $1,7252018: $1,7712019: $1,5672020: $1,2612021: $1,2612022: $1,4472023: $2,0162024: $2,2662025: $2,4732026: $2,8122027: $2,9732016202020232027

▲ +68% since 2016 · ~+5%/yr

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

1.40% — the statutory rate0%0.4%0.8%1.2%

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

8910025020162019202220252027This 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 29 arm's-length sales since 2000. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 11 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$250K$500K2004201020162022
29arm's-length sales since 2000
1times the typical home has sold
6most sales for a single property
11homes 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

13 parcels11 parcels0 parcels1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels3 parcels
$212K$384K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Ball5inc Llc13$639Kphila.gov ↗
Philly Comfort Homes Llc12$1.0Mphila.gov ↗

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$500K$1.0M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median

Worth a look

AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
6800 SPRAGUE ST Traded 2×: $74K in 2008 → $210K in 2009 (+184%). Owner-occupied $256K 3/2 1,566 1925 2
6801 SPRAGUE ST Owner-occupied $506K 6/3 2,601 1945 1
6802 SPRAGUE ST Owner-occupied $240K 3/1 1,364 1925 0
6804 SPRAGUE ST Owner-occupied $240K 3/1 1,364 1925 1
6805 SPRAGUE ST Traded 2×: $90K in 2009 → $320K in 2010 (+255%). Owner-occupied $384K 5/2 2,132 1945 2
6806 SPRAGUE ST Owner-occupied $244K 3/1 1,364 1925 1
6807 SPRAGUE ST Owner-occupied $395K —/— 2,313 1945 0
6808 SPRAGUE ST sold $65K (2000); Appeal complete (2025). Owner-occupied $244K 3/1 1,364 1925 1
6810 SPRAGUE ST Owner-occupied $244K 3/1 1,364 1925 0 2 viol
6812 SPRAGUE ST Investor / LLC $244K 4/2 1,364 1925 1
6815 SPRAGUE ST Owner-occupied $294K 3/1 1,705 1945 1
6817 SPRAGUE ST Traded 3×: $145K in 2007 → $101K in 2015 (-30%). Investor / LLC $244K 3/1 1,182 1945 3
6819 SPRAGUE ST Owner-occupied $242K 3/1 1,182 1945 0 tax lien
6821 SPRAGUE ST Owner-occupied $217K 2/1 960 1945 1
6823 SPRAGUE ST Absentee individual $216K 2/1 956 1945 0
6825 SPRAGUE ST Absentee individual $215K 2/1 956 1945 0 tax lien
6827 SPRAGUE ST Traded 3×: $160K in 2007 → $300K in 2026 (+88%). Owner-occupied $215K 2/1 960 1945 3
6829 SPRAGUE ST Owner-occupied $261K 2/1 956 1945 1
6831 SPRAGUE ST Owner-occupied $212K 2/1 956 1945 0
6833 SPRAGUE ST Owner-occupied $213K 2/1 960 1945 0 tax lien
6835 SPRAGUE ST Traded 6×: $82K in 2002 → $195K in 2021 (+138%). Owner-occupied $213K 2/1 960 1945 6
6837 SPRAGUE ST Owner-occupied $212K 2/1 950 1945 0 tax lien
6839 SPRAGUE ST Owner-occupied $255K 2/2 960 1945 1
6841 SPRAGUE ST Absentee individual $212K 2/1 956 1945 1 rented
6843 SPRAGUE ST Owner-occupied $213K 2/1 960 1945 1
6845 SPRAGUE ST Owner-occupied $213K 2/1 960 1945 0
6847 SPRAGUE ST Owner-occupied $216K 2/1 960 1945 0
6849 SPRAGUE ST Traded 2×: $90K in 2004 → $219K in 2004 (+143%). Owner-occupied $223K 3/1 1,030 1945 2

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.