800 block of S 49th St

How the block compares

The typical home here is $517K — about 2.3× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19143 median of $152K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19143 and across Philadelphia.

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 217 reported crimes (20 violent) and 226 resident 311 requests to the city.

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.

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

• $517K typical home, up +60% since 2016
• Tax bill $4,471 to $6,722 a year, +4%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $22M assessed, $269,836/yr to the city, about $7,710 per home

Who really pays — each home's tax bill as a share of its value

Philadelphia charges every home the same 1.40% of its assessed value. On this block, 22 of 35 homes pay that full rate — and 13 pay less, because abatements and exemptions shrink the taxed value. Each dot is one home; the further left, the less of its value it pays. Hover a dot for the house.

The starkest example: 816 S 49th St is assessed at $1.1M but pays $3,163 a year — about 20% of the $15,814 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 +4.4% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $160 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

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 55 arm's-length sales since 2000. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 10 have not changed hands at all.

Who owns it

The block's largest owner, Wilmington Savings Fund Society Fsb Tr, carries 26 open violations across 56 properties it owns around the city.

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 35 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

Worth a look

New construction

816 S 49th St

$1.1M · Bought for $140K in 2018, built new under a 2019 permit (tax-abated).

New construction

813 S 49th St

$803K · Bought for $325K in 2006, built new under a 2017 permit (tax-abated), sold for $436K in 2017.

New construction

815 S 49th St

$787K · Bought for $70K in 2000, built new under a 2017 permit (tax-abated), sold for $273K in 2012.

New construction

814 S 49th St

$752K · Bought for $65K in 2003, built new under a 2011 permit, sold for $675K in 2022.

New construction

826 S 49th St

$593K · built new under a 2009 permit (tax-abated), sold for $250K in 2009.

New construction

824 S 49th St

$480K · built new under a 2009 permit (tax-abated).

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.