ELi5 – How are street adresses determined / how do they get numbered?

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ELi5 – How are street adresses determined / how do they get numbered?

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Just to add to the commonly mentioned rules for even/odd numbering I’ve seen some suburban areas in Canada where instead of using blocks assigned a group of numbers (usually 100) they have a numbering scheme that is simply in approximate meters. So a house with address 1200 would be 1k from address 2200. It’s also not uncommon for property owners to apply to the city for an address numbering change, especially those from a culture with numerological superstitions.