Philadelphia property report

8200 block of Woolston Ave

A mostly owner-occupied block: 75% of homes are lived in by their owners, with 1 parcel listed in the June 2022 tax-delinquency snapshot ($6,959 recorded then).

The typical home here is up 57% since 2016, now about $248K. Property taxes are climbing about 4% a year and the increases are speeding up.

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By the Numbers

Median home value
$248K
8 homes of 8 parcels
ZIP median $233K
Price / sq ft
$206
typical home
city median $181
Vs. Philadelphia
1.1×
the city median
city $230K
Tax / yr
$3K
typical · up to $5K
city ≈$3K/yr
Median built
1950
year built
city 1925
Owner-occupied
75%
6 of 8
city 48%
Rentals
25%
2 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
0
none on record
▼ block 0% · city 5%
Tax delinquency · Jun 2022
$7K
1 of 8 listed
▲ block 13% · city 9%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+1%
value · tax −$39
5 years
+63%
value · tax +$1K
10 years
+57%
value · tax +$995

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 $248K — about 1.1× 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$248K$233K$230K
Owner-occupied38%69%48%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 37 reported crimes (about 3 a month, 35% of them violent) and 69 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
37
about 3/month · 35% violent
311 requests · 12mo
69
about 6/month · 10 open

Most reported crimes

Other Assaults12
Motor Vehicle Theft6
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief5
Fraud4
All Other Offenses3
Thefts3

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection20
Abandoned Vehicle9
Salting9
Street Defect7
Maintenance Complaint5
Other (Streets)3

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
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$248K2016: $158K2017: $158K2018: $158K2019: $159K2020: $152K2021: $152K2022: $152K2023: $194K2024: $194K2025: $245K2026: $245K2027: $248K2016202020232027

▲ +57% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$2,500$5,000$2,9512016: $1,9562017: $1,9562018: $1,9562019: $1,9392020: $1,8582021: $1,8582022: $1,8582023: $2,3442024: $2,3442025: $2,8462026: $2,9902027: $2,9512016202020232027

▲ +51% since 2016 · ~+4%/yr

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.

5 homes pay the full 1.40%3 pay less

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +4.2% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 157 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $157 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+4.2%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+57%
since 2016
Net rental yield
4.3%
est., after tax carry
Total return
+8.5%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+5.5%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-2.3 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 2 arm's-length sales since 2005. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 6 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$100K$200K2008201220162020
2arm's-length sales since 2005
0times the typical home has sold
1most sales for a single property
6homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 8 parcels

Owner-occupied: 6Absentee individual: 2 8parcels
  • Owner-occupied 6
  • Absentee individual 2

Value distribution today

3 parcels1 parcels1 parcels0 parcels1 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$211K$347K+

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

House by house

All 8 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
8204 WOOLSTON AVE Owner pulled a plumbing permit in 2013. Owner-occupied $260K 3/— 1,410 1950 0 licensed rental
8205 WOOLSTON AVE Owner-occupied $215K 3/— 1,025 1950 0
8206 WOOLSTON AVE Owner-occupied $292K 3/— 1,410 1950 0 $7K tax · Jun ’22
8207 WOOLSTON AVE Owner-occupied $236K 3/— 1,025 1950 1
8209 WOOLSTON AVE Absentee individual $211K 3/— 1,025 1950 1
8211 WOOLSTON AVE Owner pulled a alterations permit in 2024. Owner-occupied $211K 3/— 1,025 1950 0
8244 WOOLSTON AVE Apartment building Owner pulled a use permit in 2018. Absentee individual $348K 3/— 2,122 1980 0 licensed rental
8246 WOOLSTON AVE Apartment building Owner-occupied $347K 3/— 2,122 1980 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.