How Philadelphia is built — and why it changes the price
134 square miles, about 1,574,000 residents, roughly 11,715 of them per square mile: Philadelphia is compact enough that a crew can run several jobs in a morning, and tight enough that each one needs a plan for the kerb.
Philadelphia is a row-house city: 65% of its 739,725 homes are single-family, yet only 8% stand detached. The practical consequence is the staircase. Almost nothing comes out of a row house without going down one, and that is what a crew is pricing.
At 52% owner-occupied, Philadelphia generates more cleanouts than move-outs — and cleanouts are the jobs where a photo saves the most back-and-forth, because volume is hard to describe in words. The median Philadelphia home dates to about 1949 — an era of walk-ups, half-landings and staircases that turn. Anything wide comes out on its side, and a crew that has seen the building before is worth listening to.
Philadelphia sits within reach of Camden (5.2 miles), Upper Darby (9.2 miles) and Cherry Hill (10 miles), all of which we cover too. Worth knowing when you post: the radius a pro works, not the city boundary, is what decides who sees your job.