How many streets share a name?
Qualifying named street features in the Census Bureau's TIGER/Line Feature Names files, counted.
Look up a street name
Our count of qualifying named street features in the Census files we downloaded (3,234 of the 3,235 county files; the file for St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands was answered by the Census server with a "Request Rejected" page and is left out): exact Census NAME matches only; directions stored inside NAME, as in N Main, remain part of the match. The lookup covers the 67,189 base names on ten or more streets. How we count.
Our take written by All Streets
All Streets counts U.S. street names from the Census Bureau's TIGER/Line Feature Names files: 8,261,451 streets across 3,231 counties, carrying 979,817 distinct base names. Type a base name above to see how many streets carry it and up to three jurisdictions, states, DC or territories, with the highest counts.
Each question page answers one thing from the same files, from Main and Second to the spellings of Martin Luther King Jr., and shows sample rows from the Census files with the counting method beside them.
Our reading of the counts on this page. It adds no facts of its own.
Our count: 8,261,451 streets, 979,817 distinct base names, 3,231 counties, 3,234 Census files.
Questions we answer
- Main Street or Second Street: which name is on more streets?
- How many streets are numbered, from 1st to 100th?
- The 100 most common street names in the U.S.
- Street, Road, Avenue or Drive: how U.S. streets end
- County Road, Calle, Via: street types that come first
- North, South, East, West: directions in street names
- Streets named for presidents' surnames
- Oak, Pine, Maple: tree names on U.S. streets
- Red, Green, White: color names on streets
- Deer, Fox, Eagle: animal names on streets
- Lake, River, Creek: water in street names
- Hill, Ridge, Valley: land in street names
- Church, School, Mill: places of work and worship on street signs
- The longest street names in the Census files
- A Street to Z Street: single-letter street names
- Streets with Martin Luther King Jr.'s name
- Streets in every state, and each state's most common name
- How many Broadways are there?
- Ohio Avenue, Texas Street: street names that match state names
- Calle, Camino, Paseo: selected Spanish street types
- Streets with a County Road or County Highway prefix
- Street names found in just one county
- Second Street or 2nd Street? Spelled or digits, by state
- Main arteries and local streets: the two road classes counted