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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Answer 1

Depends on where you are.

In city limits, especially with planned new roads and development, they are often just numbered with odds on one side, and evens on the other, just numbered up from 1 to whatever the road finishes at.

In rural areas, the house numbers are more often reflective of the distance from the end of the road.

By in laws live in a rural area, they house number is an indication of how far they are from the start of the road.