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Who owns your block

800 block of S 20th St

A mostly owner-occupied block: 60% of homes are lived in by their owners, with 7 open code violations.

The typical home here is up 82% since 2016, now about $896K. Property taxes are climbing about 33% 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
$896K
$447K–$5.1M
ZIP median $364K
Price / sq ft
$448
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
4.0×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$11K
typical · up to $14K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
3 of 10
$103K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
60%
6 of 10
city 41%
Rentals
10%
1 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
7
L&I code
▲ block 10% · city 5%
Back taxes
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+14%
value · tax +$1K
5 years
+43%
value · tax +$2K
10 years
+82%
value · tax +$8K

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 $896K — about 4.0× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19146 median of $364K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19146 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19146Philadelphia
Median home value$896K$364K$223K
Owner-occupied50%29%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 76 reported crimes (15 violent) and 403 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
76
15 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
403
29 still open

Most reported crimes

Thefts17
Theft from Vehicle14
Other Assaults12
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief11
Motor Vehicle Theft10
Fraud7

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection109
Salting44
Street Light Outage37
Information Request36
Graffiti Removal31
Shoveling23

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
Marian Anderson Neighborhood Academy
2000 Catharine St · 348 students
High
Universal Institute Charter School At Audenried

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$500K$1.0M$896K2016: $493K2017: $493K2018: $469K2019: $650K2020: $620K2021: $620K2022: $627K2023: $736K2024: $736K2025: $784K2026: $784K2027: $896K2016202020232027

▲ +82% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$5,000$10,000$9,9912016: $4302017: $1,8772018: $2,0092019: $4,8902020: $8,0432021: $8,0432022: $8,1532023: $8,9622024: $8,9622025: $8,7352026: $8,7352027: $9,9912016202020232027

▲ +2223% since 2016 · ~+33%/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 $102,709 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 $71,040at the full rate

800 S 20th St is assessed at $5.1M but pays $0 a year — about 0% of the $71,040 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 +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 20 arm's-length sales since 2003. The typical home has sold 2 times in that window, while 4 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$2.5M$5.0M20042008201220162020
20arm's-length sales since 2003
2times the typical home has sold
5most sales for a single property
4homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 10 parcels

Owner-occupied: 6Absentee individual: 4 10parcels
  • Owner-occupied 6
  • Absentee individual 4

Value distribution today

1 parcels2 parcels4 parcels1 parcels0 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$447K$1.6M+

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

House by house

All 10 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$5.0M$10M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
800 S 20TH ST built new under a 2011 permit (tax-abated). Absentee individual $5.1M —/— 41,750 1963 0 abated7 viol
801 S 20TH ST Bought for $123K in 2004, built new under a 2007 permit, sold for $1.1M in 2018. Absentee individual $993K 3/3 2,460 2009 5
803 S 20TH ST Bought for $56K in 2004, built new under a 2015 permit, sold for $562K in 2015. Owner-occupied $896K —/— 2,000 2008 5
805 S 20TH ST Traded 2×: $420K in 2006 → $490K in 2009 (+17%). Owner-occupied $896K 3/2 2,000 2006 4
807 S 20TH ST Bought for $70K in 2004, built new under a 2007 permit, sold for $550K in 2008. Owner-occupied $896K —/— 2,000 2008 2
809 S 20TH ST Bought for $28K in 2003, built new under a 2007 permit, sold for $545K in 2008. Owner-occupied $896K —/— 2,000 2007 3
811 S 20TH ST Owner-occupied $666K 3/3 2,080 2010 0
811 S 20TH ST Owner-occupied $732K 3/3 2,360 2010 0
815 S 20TH ST built new (tax-abated), sold for $2.8M in 2022. Absentee individual $1.6M 3/3 3,160 2021 1 abated
816 S 20TH ST built new under a 2007 permit (tax-abated). Absentee individual $447K —/— 4,866 1960 0 rentedabated

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.