eli5 Why do house numbers skip digits?

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My brother lives at 35 Parson Lane, yet the next-door neighbor is at number 25. My last house was number 10, the next-door neighbor was at number 12. Why all the number skipping? Why not just go in numerical order starting with 1, then 2, etc.

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They don’t always…the house numbers on my street start at 1 on the left-hand side of the entrance and just increase sequentially from there until the house opposite that one is number 42. I guess that might be because I live on a close where there isn’t any practical way they could extend the road any further due to other thoroughfares.

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