What do the digits of your social security number represent?

Answer 1

The nine-digit SSN is composed of three parts:

The first set of three digits is called the Area Number
The second set of two digits is called the Group Number
The final set of four digits is the Serial Number

Area Number

The Area Number is assigned by the geographical region. Prior to 1972, cards were issued in local Social Security offices around the country and the Area Number represented the State in which the card was issued. This did not necessarily have to be the State where the applicant lived, since a person could apply for their card in any Social Security office. Since 1972, when SSA began assigning SSNs and issuing cards centrally from Baltimore, the area number assigned has been based on the ZIP code in the mailing address provided on the application. The applicant's mailing address does not have to be the same place as their residence. Thus, the Area Number does not necessarily represent the State of residence of the applicant, either prior to 1972 or since.

Generally, numbers were assigned beginning in the northeast and moving westward. So people on the east coast have the lowest numbers and those on the west coast have the highest numbers.

Complete List of the Geographical Number Assignments


Group Number

Within each area, the group numbers (middle two digits) range from 01 to 99 but are not assigned in consecutive order. For administrative reasons, group numbers issued first consist of the ODD numbers from 01 through 09 and then EVEN numbers from 10 through 98, within each area number allocated to a State. After all numbers in group 98 of a particular area have been issued, the EVEN Groups 02 through 08 are used, followed by ODD Groups 11 through 99. These numbers do not really provide any clues for genealogy purposes.

First: ODD - 01, 03, 05, 07, 09
Second: EVEN - 10 to 98
Third: EVEN - 02, 04, 06, 08
Fourth: ODD - 11 to 99 Within each group, the serial numbers (last four (4) digits) run consecutively from 0001 through 9999. These also have no bearing on genealogy research.

Answer 2

The first 3 digits identify the region or state where the office that issued your number was located. The rest of the digits don't have any particular meaning.

Answer 3

It represents the region of the USA that you were born in. And the number that there issued.

Answer 4

The first 3 numbers represent the state in which you obtained your card...the other 6 are just random I think..but the first 3 rep. the state.

Answer 5

What are you asking? Your social protection is in basic terms a selection - assigned whenever you signed up for a SS#. it particularly is utilized by the indoors sales provider and the Social protection administration to hint your earnings and tax concepts. Your employer needs your social protection selection to record your wages, withholdings and social protection concepts to the IRS and the SSA. Many different places additionally use the selection to hint concepts approximately you - particularly in the event that they might desire to deliver concepts to the IRS - like financial employer interest, playing earnings, retirement money, training paid and private loan interest. So - if somebody has your selection and has get entry to to a gadget that makes use of your SS# they might discover out all kinds of concepts approximately you... I have been given mine at age thirteen while my mom and dad opened a financial employer account for me. maximum young babies now get one while they're born.