Public Records
Edition
PhiladelphiaBuilt on public City of Philadelphia recordsJuly 8, 2026

Who owns your block

8500 block of Thouron Ave

A mostly owner-occupied block: 97% of homes are lived in by their owners.

The typical home here is up 83% since 2016, now about $241K. Property taxes are climbing about 2% 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
$241K
$210K–$334K
ZIP median $234K
Price / sq ft
$203
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
1.1×
the city median
city $223K
Recent sale
$169K
1 sold in 2yr
assessed $241K
Tax / yr
$2K
typical · up to $5K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
2 of 34
$38K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
97%
33 of 34
city 41%
Rentals
6%
2 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 3% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+3%
value · tax +$98
5 years
+83%
value · tax +$768
10 years
+83%
value · tax +$458

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 $241K — about 1.1× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19150 median of $234K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19150 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19150Philadelphia
Median home value$241K$234K$223K
Owner-occupied74%67%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 29 reported crimes (7 violent) and 46 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
29
7 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
46
7 still open

Most reported crimes

Motor Vehicle Theft7
Fraud6
Other Assaults4
Theft from Vehicle4
Aggravated Assault No Firearm2
Thefts2

Top 311 complaints

Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection15
Street Light Outage6
Abandoned Vehicle5
Salting5
Other (Streets)3
Street Defect3

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
John F Mccloskey
8500 Pickering St · 217 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$125K$250K$241K2016: $132K2017: $132K2018: $132K2019: $136K2020: $132K2021: $132K2022: $132K2023: $187K2024: $187K2025: $234K2026: $234K2027: $241K2016202020232027

▲ +83% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$1,000$2,000$1,9842016: $1,5292017: $1,5262018: $1,5262019: $1,3722020: $1,2192021: $1,2192022: $1,2162023: $1,5102024: $1,5102025: $1,8862026: $1,8862027: $1,9842016202020232027

▲ +30% since 2016 · ~+2%/yr

2
2 properties on this block carry a tax abatement or major exemption. New construction and gut rehabs get the improvement value exempted for up to 10 years, so their tax bills sit far below their real value — block-wide, exemptions keep about $38,269 a year off the tax roll. Read the tax figures with that in mind.

Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home

1.40% — the statutory rate0%0.4%0.8%1.2%
$2,167pays now $3,859at the full rate

8535 Thouron Ave is assessed at $276K but pays $2,167 a year — about 56% of the $3,859 it would owe at the statutory rate, because its new-construction value is abated.

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +5.6% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

9510025020162019202220252027This block 183 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $183 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+5.6%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+83%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+5.6%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+2.6%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-0.9 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 19 arm's-length sales since 2003. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 22 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$125K$250K20052010201520202025
19arm's-length sales since 2003
0times the typical home has sold
3most sales for a single property
22homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 34 parcels

Owner-occupied: 33Absentee individual: 1 34parcels
  • Owner-occupied 33
  • Absentee individual 1

Value distribution today

1 parcels15 parcels0 parcels13 parcels1 parcels0 parcels4 parcels
$210K$272K+

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

House by house

All 34 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$250K$500K201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median

Worth a look

AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
8501 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $272K 3/2 1,320 1950 1
8503 THOURON AVE Traded 2×: $75K in 2011 → $156K in 2012 (+108%). Owner-occupied $243K 3/1 1,166 1950 2
8505 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $242K 3/2 1,160 1950 0
8507 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $221K 3/2 1,152 1950 0
8509 THOURON AVE Traded 3×: $75K in 2006 → $147K in 2007 (+96%). Owner-occupied $243K 3/2 1,166 1950 3
8511 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $223K 3/2 1,166 1950 0
8513 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $221K 3/2 1,152 1950 1
8515 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $243K 3/2 1,166 1950 0 tax lien
8517 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $242K 3/2 1,160 1950 0
8519 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $222K 3/2 1,160 1950 0 rented
8521 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $243K 3/2 1,166 1950 0
8523 THOURON AVE Traded 2×: $100K in 2025 → $169K in 2025 (+69%). Absentee individual $222K 3/— 1,160 1950 2
8525 THOURON AVE sold $114K (2014); Appeal complete (2026). Owner-occupied $210K 3/2 1,034 1950 1
8527 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $222K 3/2 1,160 1950 0
8529 THOURON AVE Traded 3×: $70K in 2006 → $140K in 2017 (+100%). Owner-occupied $242K 3/1 1,160 1950 3
8531 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $242K 3/2 1,160 1950 0
8533 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $268K 3/2 1,320 1950 0 abated
8535 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $276K 3/2 1,320 1950 0 abated
8537 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $223K 3/2 1,166 1950 1
8539 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $241K 3/2 1,152 1950 1
8541 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $242K 3/2 1,160 1950 0
8543 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $221K 3/1 1,152 1950 1
8545 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $241K 3/2 1,152 1950 0
8547 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $223K 3/2 1,166 1950 0
8549 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $222K 3/2 1,160 1950 0
8551 THOURON AVE Traded 2×: $88K in 2017 → $214K in 2018 (+143%). Owner-occupied $334K 4/2 1,160 1950 2 rented
8553 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $223K 3/2 1,166 1950 0 tax lien
8555 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $221K 3/2 1,152 1950 0
8557 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $222K 3/2 1,160 1950 0
8559 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $222K 3/1 1,160 1950 1
8561 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $222K 3/2 1,160 1950 0
8563 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $242K 3/2 1,160 1950 0
8565 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $243K 3/2 1,174 1950 0
8567 THOURON AVE Owner-occupied $250K 3/2 1,320 1950 0

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.

Generated 2026-07-08 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.