8500 block of Bustleton Ave

How the block compares

The typical home here is $304K — about 1.4× the citywide median, and below the ZIP 19152 median of $330K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19152 and across Philadelphia.

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 21 reported crimes (5 violent) and 39 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

• $304K typical home, up +80% since 2016
• Tax bill $1,982 to $3,080 a year, +4%/yr and compounding
• Whole block: $17M assessed, $201,520/yr to the city, about $4,687 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, 19 of 43 homes pay that full rate — and 24 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: 8540 Bustleton Ave is assessed at $423K but pays $5,225 a year — about 88% of the $5,914 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 +5.5% 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 $180 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 46 arm's-length sales since 2000. The typical home has sold 1 time in that window, while 11 have not changed hands at all.

Who owns it

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 43 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

Torn down & rebuilt

8550 Bustleton Ave

$468K · demolished and rebuilt (2024).

New construction

8500-10 Bustleton Ave

$1.7M · built new under a 2019 permit.

New construction

8540 Bustleton Ave

$423K · built new under a 2014 permit (tax-abated).

Renovated & sold on

8597 Bustleton Ave

$386K · Bought for $180K in 2014, use permit in 2016, sold for $363K in 2021 (+101%).

Renovated & sold on

8567 Bustleton Ave

$334K · Bought for $87K in 2003, plumbing permit in 2008, sold for $315K in 2024 (+262%).

Improved

8556-76 Bustleton Ave

$1.9M · Owner pulled a sign permit in 2018.

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.