How many houses per street in the US? Why the huge numbers?

Question

Some addresses of houses in the US can be 20003 for example. Does this mean there are more than 10000 houses on each side of the street? Please give an explanation to a non US person.

Answer 1

Each block is 100 numbers even if no houses so starting downtown you might have a number like 50 and a block later 150 then the next block 250 when you are about 20 blocks from down town you would be up to 2500 the in 200 blocks be up to 25000 so it isn't how many houses but how many blocks from downtown. Small towns might not have any addresses over 1000.
I live near a street named 129th so all the house numbers start 129 and have 5 numbers the numbers keep getting bigger farther from town until it gets to about 320 when it hits the next town and they start in the center of that and work to larger numbers. You could have an address like 157th N in one city then a block away have 320th S of the next city.

Answer 2

No what that means is that there are that many houses on that street. streets in the US can go on for miles. a good example of this are streets in Kansas city, MO. I live around 103rd street and it is 20 or so miles to downtown. streets like Hlomes ( the one i live on) go all the way downtown and futher on into the northtown. As well streets are divided into blocks by the cross streets. From the cross streets you get the 100's, 200's and so on. so if the adress is 1045 it is in the 10 hundrad block of that street.

Answer 3

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