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Other states like Indiana and Tennessee also once used the practice, with Tennessee discontinuing in the 1980s and Indiana in 2008.įour jurisdictions in the United States use letters to designate a residence where a vehicle was registered. In Montana, for example, the county codes were assigned around 1930 and have not changed since. County codes have been based on historical population figures, the county names in alphabetical order, or some combination thereof.
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Standard-issue Idaho license plate numbers begin with a single-letter or a number-letter code representing the county of issue for example, vehicles registered in Ada County start with 1A, vehicles in Twin Falls County start with 2T, and vehicles in Valley County start with V (as there is only one county that starts with the letter V). In Alabama, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming, a one- or two-digit number representing the county of issue begins a license plate number. the letters progress from "A" and "B" for January to "Y" and "Z" for December. The month's position within the calendar year corresponds to the letter's position within the alphabet i.e. Additionally, the first letter of Missouri passenger plates denotes the month of expiration. The same applies to the first number or letter on West Virginia plates ( 1 to 9 for January through September, and O, N, and D for October, November, and December expirations, respectively).
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The last number on a Massachusetts license plate indicates the month the vehicle's registration expires (for example, 1234 AB would expire in April, the fourth month 0 indicates October expirations and X and Y were used for November and December expirations, respectively, on commercial plates and pre-1978 passenger plates). In some states, the month of expiration or the county of registration is incorporated into the plate's serial. For example, when Virginia switched to seven characters for its standard issue in 1993, numbers beginning with AAA-1000 were already in use for extra-cost, optional-issue plates therefore, the new standard license plates were issued in descending order from ZZZ-9999. In a few cases, numbers have been assigned in descending order. Thus, an observer familiar with the sequence can determine roughly when the plate was issued. License plate numbers are usually assigned in ascending order, beginning with a starting point such as AAA-001.
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Except for the fourth character in each serial, which is always a number, the characters in a serial can be either letters or numbers.

Several less-populous states- Alaska, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, and Vermont-use a three-letter, three-number format, namely ABC-123 or 123-ABC.Īrizona uses a distinctive format with six characters. Other seven-character formats include Connecticut and Illinois, which use AB-12345, and Maryland, which uses 1AB2345.Īrkansas, Colorado, Florida, and New Jersey use four letters and two numbers: Arkansas uses an ABC-12D format, Colorado an ABC-D12 format, Florida a 12A-BCD format, and New Jersey an A12-BCD format. Several states, particularly those with higher populations, use seven-character formats of three letters and four digits, including 1ABC234 in California and ABC-1234 (with or without a space or dash) in Georgia, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. For example, Delaware is able to use six-digit all-numeric serials because of its low population. Indiana plates are randomly issued with combinations of 3 numbers and either 1, 2, or 3 letters, while all "In God We Trust" plates have 3 letters and 3 numbers.įormats for license plate numbers are consistent within the state.Tennessee issues three number and four letter plates for the "In God We Trust" plate.Nevada issues three letter and three number plates vehicles sold through dealers that require a new plate.Nebraska uses sequential-issuance three-letter, three-number plates for its most populous counties and county-coded plates for the rest of the counties consisting of 1 or 2 letters and up to 5 numbers.Maine uses a varying number of digits, but most Maine plates consist of four digits and two letters.The most common issue consists of four letters and two digits, but alternate standard issues contain four digits and two letters. Florida uses six-character serial numbers, but the combinations vary.Previous serial formats and optional issues are not depicted.


Only the current passenger standard-issue serial format is depicted.
