Philadelphia property report

8000 block of Woolston Ave

A mostly owner-occupied block: 94% of homes are lived in by their owners, with 1 parcel listed in the June 2022 tax-delinquency snapshot ($10,574 recorded then).

The typical home here is up 85% since 2016, now about $328K. 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.
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By the Numbers

Median home value
$328K
16 homes of 16 parcels
ZIP median $233K
Price / sq ft
$214
typical home
city median $181
Vs. Philadelphia
1.4×
the city median
city $230K
Recent sale
$210K
1 sold in 2yr
assessed $328K
Tax / yr
$3K
typical · up to $5K
city ≈$3K/yr
Major assessment exemptions
1 of 16
$23K/yr estimated reduction
Owner-occupied
94%
15 of 16
city 48%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Tax delinquency · Jun 2022
$11K
1 of 16 listed
▼ block 6% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+2%
value · tax +$115
5 years
+87%
value · tax +$1K
10 years
+85%
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 a material assessment exemption whose legal basis is not established by the roll. Click a bubble for its report.

2027
  • Owner-occupied
  • Investor / LLC
  • Absentee
  • Vacant
  • Assessment exemption
  • 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 $328K — about 1.4× the citywide median home, and above the ZIP 19150 median of $233K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19150 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19150Philadelphia
Median home value$328K$233K$230K
Owner-occupied81%69%48%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 17 reported crimes (about 1 a month, 24% of them violent) and 45 resident 311 requests to the city. A busy commercial corridor logs far more than a quiet residential block, so read this against nearby blocks, not the citywide total.

Crimes · 12mo
17
about 1/month · 24% violent
311 requests · 12mo
45
about 4/month · 3 open

Most reported crimes

Motor Vehicle Theft5
Other Assaults4
Fraud3
Theft from Vehicle2
All Other Offenses1
Thefts1

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection24
Inlet Cleaning4
Maintenance Complaint4
Street Defect4
Street Trees4
Abandoned Vehicle1

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
Franklin S Edmonds
8025 Thouron Ave · 376 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$328K2016: $177K2017: $177K2018: $177K2019: $183K2020: $176K2021: $176K2022: $176K2023: $256K2024: $256K2025: $322K2026: $322K2027: $328K2016202020232027

▲ +85% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$2,500$5,000$3,3212016: $2,0592017: $2,1242018: $2,2002019: $2,1312020: $1,9482021: $1,9482022: $2,0612023: $2,5322024: $2,5322025: $3,2062026: $3,2062027: $3,3212016202020232027

▲ +61% since 2016 · ~+4%/yr

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1 property on this block show a material assessment exemption. At the current rate, the difference between full and taxable assessments reduces the block's annual estimate by about $22,835. OPA's numeric split does not establish whether any row is Homestead, an abatement, another program, or when treatment changes.

Who really pays

Philadelphia's 1.3998% rate applies to the taxable assessment. The OPA roll shows exemptions that can make an estimate lower than the full assessed-value scenario; this chart does not identify their legal basis.

2 homes pay the full 1.40%14 pay less
$0pays now $4,500at the full rate

One large gap: 8027 Woolston Ave has a $0/year assessment-based estimate on $322K assessed value — about 0% of the $4,500 full-assessment scenario. Verify the exemption basis and live account before relying on either number.

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +5.8% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 185 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $185 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+5.8%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+85%
since 2016
Net rental yield
3.1%
est., after tax carry
Total return
+8.9%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+5.9%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-0.7 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 11 arm's-length sales since 1999. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 9 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$250K$500K20002005201020152020
11arm's-length sales since 1999
0times the typical home has sold
4most sales for a single property
9homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 16 parcels

Owner-occupied: 15Absentee individual: 1 16parcels
  • Owner-occupied 15
  • Absentee individual 1

Value distribution today

2 parcels2 parcels3 parcels3 parcels2 parcels1 parcels3 parcels
$234K$406K+

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

House by house

All 16 homes on the block — value trajectory, ownership, and the paper trail assembled from the fetched public datasets. Sorted up the street; each links to its property report and official sources — 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
8007 WOOLSTON AVE Owner-occupied $388K 3/— 2,722 1950 0
8009 WOOLSTON AVE Owner-occupied $278K 3/— 2,794 1950 0
8010 WOOLSTON AVE Bought for $176K in 2003. Owner pulled a plumbing permit in 2018. Owner-occupied $326K 3/— 1,487 1950 1 lien in pre-2017 ledger
8011 WOOLSTON AVE Owner-occupied $368K 3/2 1,192 1950 1
8015 WOOLSTON AVE Traded 4×: $98K in 1999 → $333K in 2020 (+242%). Owner-occupied $415K 4/3 1,243 1950 4
8018 WOOLSTON AVE Owner pulled a alteration permit in 2017. Owner-occupied $343K 3/— 1,602 1950 0
8019 WOOLSTON AVE Owner pulled a addition and/or alterations permit in 2024. Owner-occupied $343K 3/— 1,903 1950 0
8021 WOOLSTON AVE Owner-occupied $295K 3/2 1,343 1950 1
8023 WOOLSTON AVE Owner-occupied $271K 3/— 1,343 1950 0 $11K tax · Jun ’22
8027 WOOLSTON AVE built new under a 2007 permit (reduced taxable assessment shown). Absentee individual $331K 3/2 1,776 1950 0 assessment exemption · basis unverified
8031 WOOLSTON AVE Owner pulled a electrical permit in 2019. Owner-occupied $331K 3/— 1,776 1950 0
8035 WOOLSTON AVE Owner-occupied $242K 2/1 1,120 1950 1
8037 WOOLSTON AVE Owner-occupied $292K 3/— 1,300 1950 1
8039 WOOLSTON AVE Owner-occupied $234K 3/— 1,104 1950 0
8041 WOOLSTON AVE Traded 2×: $70K in 2019 → $384K in 2020 (+449%). Owner-occupied $406K 4/4 1,407 1950 2 lien in pre-2017 ledger
8043 WOOLSTON AVE Owner pulled a plumbing permit in 2012. Owner-occupied $288K 3/— 1,232 1950 0

Neighborhood

Median income
$59K
household
Own vs. rent
77%
owner-occupied
Median age
51.8
residents
Median rent
$1K
gross monthly

Generated 2026-07-10 from public City of Philadelphia records  ·  Download this block's data (CSV)

Where this comes from

Methodology & freshness

This report was assembled Jul 10, 2026, 3:40 AM ET. Available City datasets are queried from OpenDataPhilly (phl.carto.com) and the cited City ArcGIS feeds; record queries paginate rather than silently taking a first page. “Unavailable” means the source query failed or was not supplied, not “no record.” Reports re-pull on view after seven days and on an overnight rolling schedule; citywide benchmarks recompute weekly. Source dates still govern: the parcel-level tax-delinquency snapshot is June 2022 and the separate detailed tax ledger ends in 2016, so neither establishes today’s balance. The live balance and date-effective payoff must be verified in Tax Center. AI-written passages are grounded in the assembled record and rejected if they state a number the record does not hold.