Area type
Neighborhood
Philadelphia is a consolidated city-county — neighborhoods are not separate municipalities.
Center City & Fairmount · neighborhood
Rittenhouse Square housing intelligence.
Rittenhouse Square is Philadelphia's marquee address — doorman condos and 19th-century townhouses around the park, Walnut Street retail, and the city's deepest luxury market.
Neighborhood snapshot neighborhood
Profile
Real Estate Tax One consolidated bill
School catchment School District of Philadelphia
City section Center City & Fairmount
Neighborhood overview Curated
Status
School catchment Curated
Tax rate Official only
Neighborhood-level guidance frames the decision. Confirm catchment, assessment, abatement, and property records through official city sources.
Municipality identity
What we know about Rittenhouse Square.
Rittenhouse Square is Philadelphia's marquee address — doorman condos and 19th-century townhouses around the park, Walnut Street retail, and the city's deepest luxury market. Identity facts below are labeled so you know what is curated reference data versus what still needs official verification.
Area type Neighborhood official
City / county Philadelphia, PA (city-county) official
City section Center City & Fairmount curated
Primary ZIP 19103 curated
Reference coordinates 39.9496, -75.1719 curated
City section
Center City & Fairmount
Section grouping is curated for housing comparison — boundaries are informal and overlap in places.
Primary ZIP
19103
ZIP codes do not determine school catchment assignment in Philadelphia.
Reference coordinates
39.9496, -75.1719
Approximate neighborhood center — a GIS orientation reference, not a boundary.
School district
Assignment is address-level — not zip code.
District label School District of Philadelphia official
Municipality Rittenhouse Square
Corridor Center City & Fairmount
All of Philadelphia sits in one school district — but catchment school assignment is address-level. Verify the assigned school with the district's School Finder before pricing a home around a specific school.
Schools located in ZIP code 19103
7 schools sit in this neighborhood's ZIP code per the official City of Philadelphia schools dataset. A school being nearby does not make it the assigned catchment school — verify assignment at the exact address.
- Albert M. Greenfield School District Grades K-8
- Belmont Charter High School Charter Grades 9-12
- Freire Charter School Charter Grades 9-12
- Friends Select School Private / independent Grades PreK-12
- Greene Towne School Inc. Private / independent Grades PreK-3
- Philadelphia Electrical and Technology Charter School Charter Grades 9-12
- Russell Byers Charter School Charter Grades K-8
Source: City of Philadelphia / School District of Philadelphia — Schools dataset (OpenDataPhilly), retrieved 2026-07-17.
Tax layers
One bill. Three big numbers. Assessment, exemption, abatement.
Philadelphia bills city and school Real Estate Tax together — 1.3998% of assessed value in 2026. What moves your cost is the assessment, the homestead exemption, and any abatement. This profile routes you to official sources; verify the exact parcel before you model monthly cost.
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official Real Estate Tax (city + school)
Philadelphia bills one consolidated Real Estate Tax — 1.3998% of assessed value in 2026 (0.6159% city + 0.7839% School District of Philadelphia). Rittenhouse Square properties are billed by the Department of Revenue, not a township.
Open official source →02
official Assessment & appeals
Office of Property Assessment sets assessed values citywide. Informal First Level Review and formal Board of Revision of Taxes appeals run on annual deadlines — check both before accepting a reassessment.
Open official source →03
official Realty Transfer Tax
Philadelphia's combined transfer tax is 4.578% of the sale price (3.578% city + 1% Pennsylvania, effective July 1, 2025) — one of the largest closing-cost lines in any city deal.
Open official source →04
official Homestead exemption & relief
The homestead exemption removes $100,000 of assessed value for owner-occupants — about $1,399 off the annual bill. LOOP, the senior tax freeze, and OOPA payment agreements route through the Department of Revenue.
Open official source →For the homestead exemption and assessment appeals, start with the Office of Property Assessment. See the tax intelligence hub for the full explainer — including the 4.578% transfer tax at closing.
Corridor context
Center City & Fairmount — 11 towns.
Rittenhouse to Old City plus the Art Museum area — the region's densest condo and rowhome market, the deepest walkability premium, and the widest spread between trophy addresses and value blocks.
Buyer framing (curated): Condo fees and taxes change the monthly math more than list price here. Check the abatement status and its expiration year on every newer unit — an expiring abatement can move the payment by hundreds per month.
Compare nearby: Logan Square, Washington Square West, Old City, Fairmount, Graduate Hospital
Official records
Due diligence routes to primary sources.
Assessment, deed, parcel, and municipal contact checks belong in every serious housing decision. These links route to official or curated public-source hubs — not secondary aggregators.
official
Property assessment search
Look up assessed value, property characteristics, and abatement status for any Philadelphia address (Office of Property Assessment data).
Open resource →official
Atlas — deeds, permits, zoning
The city's address-level records hub — deed chain, building permits, L&I violations, zoning, and districts in one search.
Open resource →official
Department of Records
Deed recording and recorded-document archives for Philadelphia — title due diligence starts here.
Open resource →official
OpenDataPhilly
The city's open-data catalog — parcels, assessments, permits, crime, and flood layers for spatial due diligence.
Open resource →Known gaps
What this profile does not claim yet.
Production housing intelligence means honest gaps — not filler. These items still need official source input or licensed data before they can be published as facts.
Neighborhood boundaries
Philadelphia neighborhood boundaries are informal and overlap. Section groupings on this profile are curated for housing comparison — confirm the exact block context in person.
Assessment and abatement status
Current assessed value and any abatement status are property-specific. Look up the exact address on property.phila.gov before modeling monthly cost.
Population reference
Philadelphia publishes population by census tract, not by informal neighborhood boundary — no single official count exists for this area.
Decision signals
What matters before you act in Rittenhouse Square.
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official Real Estate Tax
One consolidated bill
Philadelphia bills city and school portions together (1.3998% of assessed value in 2026). Check the homestead exemption, abatement status, and assessment history on every property.
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official School catchment
School District of Philadelphia
One district citywide — but the assigned catchment school is address-level. Verify with the district School Finder before you model around a specific school.
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curated City section
Center City & Fairmount
Rittenhouse to Old City plus the Art Museum area — the region's densest condo and rowhome market, the deepest walkability premium, and the widest spread between trophy addresses and value blocks.
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curated Neighborhood overview
Curated
Overview drawn from curated neighborhood reference data — not a market valuation.
Official verification
Confirm facts at the property line.
Neighborhood profiles frame the decision. Before you tour or offer, verify catchment assignment, assessment records, and abatement status through official city sources — not marketing copy alone.
Closing support
Settlement-day help for Rittenhouse Square transactions.
When diligence is done and documents need a professional hand, BucksNotary supports loan signing and notarization across Philadelphia.
Back to the city map.
Compare Rittenhouse Square against other neighborhoods in Center City & Fairmount — then confirm property-level facts through official city records.
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