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Who owns your block

7000 block of N 12th St

A mostly owner-occupied block: 89% of homes are lived in by their owners, with 1 home behind $6,176 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 68% since 2016, now about $440K. Property taxes are climbing about 4% 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
$440K
$210K–$468K
ZIP median $219K
Price / sq ft
$127
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
2.0×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$5K
typical · up to $5K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
3 of 9
$24K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
89%
8 of 9
city 41%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Back taxes
$6K
1 of 9 behind
▲ block 11% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
1
1 home · ZBA & boards
block 11% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
-3%
value · tax −$241
5 years
+53%
value · tax +$1K
10 years
+68%
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 $440K — about 2.0× 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$440K$219K$223K
Owner-occupied67%60%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 16 reported crimes (2 violent) and 32 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
16
2 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
32
6 still open

Most reported crimes

Fraud3
Motor Vehicle Theft3
All Other Offenses2
Thefts2
Aggravated Assault No Firearm1
Burglary Non-Residential1

Top 311 complaints

Street Defect12
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection3
Street Paving3
Abandoned Vehicle2
Line Striping2
Salting2

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$440K2016: $261K2017: $261K2018: $261K2019: $268K2020: $288K2021: $288K2022: $288K2023: $345K2024: $345K2025: $452K2026: $452K2027: $440K2016202020232027

▲ +68% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$2,500$5,000$4,6292016: $3,1592017: $3,1592018: $3,1592019: $3,0572020: $3,2632021: $3,2632022: $3,4022023: $3,6672024: $3,6672025: $4,9662026: $4,8702027: $4,6292016202020232027

▲ +47% since 2016 · ~+4%/yr

3
3 properties 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 $23,787 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%
$0pays now $6,449at the full rate

7009 N 12th St is assessed at $461K but pays $0 a year — about 0% of the $6,449 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 +4.8% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 168 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $168 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+4.8%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+68%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+4.8%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+1.8%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-1.7 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 7 arm's-length sales since 1999. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 3 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$500K$1.0M20002005201020152020
7arm's-length sales since 1999
1times the typical home has sold
2most sales for a single property
3homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 9 parcels

Owner-occupied: 8Absentee individual: 1 9parcels
  • Owner-occupied 8
  • Absentee individual 1

Value distribution today

1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels0 parcels1 parcels7 parcels
$210K$463K+

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

House by house

All 9 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
7000 N 12TH ST Owner-occupied $463K 5/3 4,000 1930 0
7002 N 12TH ST Owner-occupied $444K 5/2 3,500 1930 1
7003 N 12TH ST Bought for $545K in 2024. Owner pulled a use permit in 2013. Owner-occupied $405K 5/2 3,058 1930 1
7004 N 12TH ST Bought for $350K in 2018. Owner pulled a alterations permit in 2024. Owner-occupied $468K 5/2 4,000 1930 1
7005 N 12TH ST Bought for $169K in 1999. Owner pulled a addition and/or alteration permit in 2026. Owner-occupied $440K 7/3 3,500 1930 1
7006 N 12TH ST Owner pulled a alterations permit in 2024. Owner-occupied $431K 7/2 3,255 1930 0
7009 N 12TH ST built new (tax-abated), sold for $250K in 2004. Owner-occupied $461K 5/3 3,375 1930 1 abated
7010 N 12TH ST Bought for $155K in 2002, built new (tax-abated), sold for $155K in 2002. Owner-occupied $210K 7/2 2,700 1955 2 abated
7012 N 12TH ST Absentee individual $428K —/— 2,960 1925 0 abated

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.