Explore Philadelphia building permits, police crime data, and RM-1 and RSA-5 zoning in Spring Garden, beside Eastern State Penitentiary.
Search this neighborhoodSpring Garden is a rowhouse neighborhood just north of the Vine Street Expressway and Logan Square, with about 8,100 residents, a median household income near $115,000 and a median home value near $638,000. Multi-family RM-1 zoning covers about 37% of it. The Thomas Eakins House on Mount Vernon Street and the Bergdoll-Kemble Mansion on Green Street are inside the boundary.
The Broad Street Line's Spring Garden and Fairmount stations, and bus routes 2, 4, 7, 16, 33, 43 and 48, serve the neighborhood. Community College of Philadelphia's main campus is on Spring Garden Street.
CivicScout shows Philadelphia Police Department reported incidents within a half-mile of any address in Spring Garden. Philadelphia publishes no neighborhood field for crime, so counts near the edge of Spring Garden include adjacent neighborhoods. Crash data is not available for Philadelphia.
View safety data →L&I issued 713 permits in Spring Garden from January 2024 through October 2026, 160 of them building permits (9 for new construction); the rest are trade, zoning and site permits. Most building permits are for alterations and additions to existing buildings, with new construction about 6% of them.
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View new construction →The largest zoning district in Spring Garden by area is RM-1 (multi-family housing), covering about 37% of the neighborhood, followed by RSA-5 (attached single-family houses and rowhouses) at 8% and CMX-2 (commercial mixed-use) at 6%.
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