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Who owns your block

8500 block of Bloomfield Ave

A mostly owner-occupied block: 89% of homes are lived in by their owners.

The typical home here is up 77% since 2016, now about $388K. 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
$388K
$382K–$1.8M
ZIP median $383K
Price / sq ft
$262
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
1.7×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$4K
typical · up to $5K
city ≈$3K/yr
Median built
1960
year built
city 1925
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
$0
all current
▼ block 0% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
1
1 home · ZBA & boards
block 11% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+9%
value · tax +$471
5 years
+47%
value · tax +$974
10 years
+77%
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 $388K — about 1.7× the citywide median, and in line with the ZIP 19115 median of $383K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19115 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19115Philadelphia
Median home value$388K$383K$223K
Owner-occupied78%66%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 9 reported crimes (4 violent) and 5 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
9
4 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
5
2 still open

Most reported crimes

Motor Vehicle Theft3
Other Assaults3
Theft from Vehicle2
Aggravated Assault No Firearm1

Top 311 complaints

Abandoned Vehicle1
Fire Safety Complaint1
Parks and Rec Safety and Maintenance1
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection1
Salting1

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
Joseph Greenberg
600 Sharon Ln · 1048 students
High · 9-12
George Washington
10175 Bustleton Ave · 1795 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$388K2016: $220K2017: $220K2018: $220K2019: $245K2020: $264K2021: $264K2022: $264K2023: $297K2024: $297K2025: $355K2026: $355K2027: $388K2016202020232027

▲ +77% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$2,500$5,000$4,0332016: $2,6552017: $2,6552018: $2,6552019: $2,8722020: $3,0592021: $3,0592022: $3,0592023: $3,0392024: $3,0392025: $3,5622026: $3,5622027: $4,0332016202020232027

▲ +52% since 2016 · ~+4%/yr

Who really pays

Philadelphia charges every home the same 1.40% of its assessed value. Abatements and exemptions shrink what some homes are taxed on — here's this block:

1 home pay the full 1.40%8 pay less

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +5.3% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 177 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $177 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+5.3%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+77%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+5.3%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+2.3%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-1.2 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 14 arm's-length sales since 2000. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 1 has not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$250K$500K20002005201020152020
14arm's-length sales since 2000
1times the typical home has sold
3most sales for a single property
1homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 9 parcels

Owner-occupied: 8Vacant: 1 9parcels
  • Owner-occupied 8
  • Vacant 1

Value distribution today

1 parcels0 parcels2 parcels2 parcels2 parcels0 parcels2 parcels
$382K$396K+

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$1.0M$2.0M201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median
AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
8582 BLOOMFIELD AVE Vacant $1.8M —/— 0
8584 BLOOMFIELD AVE built new under a 2011 permit, sold for $170K in 2002. Owner-occupied $391K —/— 1,480 1960 1
8586 BLOOMFIELD AVE Traded 2×: $99K in 2003 → $250K in 2006 (+154%). Owner-occupied $388K —/— 1,480 1960 2
8588 BLOOMFIELD AVE Owner-occupied $388K —/— 1,480 1960 1
8590 BLOOMFIELD AVE Owner-occupied $387K —/— 1,480 1960 1
8592 BLOOMFIELD AVE Owner-occupied $382K —/— 1,480 1960 1
8594 BLOOMFIELD AVE Traded 2×: $162K in 2003 → $280K in 2018 (+73%). Owner-occupied $387K —/— 1,480 1960 2
8596 BLOOMFIELD AVE Traded 3×: $185K in 2004 → $375K in 2022 (+103%). Owner-occupied $396K 3/1 1,672 1960 3
8598 BLOOMFIELD AVE Traded 3×: $125K in 2012 → $275K in 2018 (+120%). Owner-occupied $390K —/— 1,480 1960 3

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.

Generated 2026-07-09 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.