A Street to Z Street: single-letter street names
Our counts from the Census Bureau's TIGER/Line Feature Names files: 8,261,451 streets in 3,231 counties.
Our take written by All Streets
A appears as a base name on 5,738 streets, B on 5,417 and C on 4,926. X appears on 696, Y on 962 and Z on 716.
Q appears on 1,022 streets. These counts cover the letter alone in the Census NAME field, so A St, N A St and A Ave count under A when the direction and suffix are recorded in their own fields.
Our reading of the counts on this page. It adds no facts of its own.
| Letter | Streets |
|---|---|
| A | 5,738 |
| B | 5,417 |
| C | 4,926 |
| D | 4,364 |
| E | 3,090 |
| F | 3,351 |
| G | 2,856 |
| H | 2,761 |
| I | 1,945 |
| J | 2,343 |
| K | 2,145 |
| L | 1,692 |
| M | 1,930 |
| N | 1,623 |
| O | 1,434 |
| P | 1,329 |
| Q | 1,022 |
| R | 1,142 |
| S | 1,137 |
| T | 1,246 |
| U | 1,068 |
| V | 1,053 |
| W | 1,102 |
| X | 696 |
| Y | 962 |
| Z | 716 |
Rows from the Census files
Verbatim field values from the county Feature Names files behind this page's counts. Each is one edge record; our count treats each LINEARID as one street.
| File (county) | TLID | LINEARID | FULLNAME | NAME | PREDIRABRV | PRETYPABRV | SUFTYPABRV | SUFDIRABRV | MTFCC | PAFLAG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tl_2025_40065_featnames.zip Jackson County, Oklahoma | 171823842 | 1101021365055 | A St | A | St | S1400 | P | |||
| tl_2025_41015_featnames.zip Curry County, Oregon | 137134383 | 1101025894915 | A St | A | St | S1400 | P | |||
| tl_2025_53011_featnames.zip Clark County, Washington | 648928780 | 11010865858122 | N Q Cir | Q | N | Cir | S1400 | P |
Our checker re-read these rows from census.gov on October 14.
How we counted
Method note Our count of Census linear features (streets, as defined in the method note): one street is one LINEARID that carries a primary name (PAFLAG P) on at least one edge classed S1200 or S1400, with a non-blank NAME, across 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. A name counts once per LINEARID, so a road the Census splits into several linear features counts more than once. Full method and definitions →
The MAF/TIGER System breaks/ends linear elemental features when the feature name changes. All spelling differences result in a new feature. Features will also break at county boundaries, changes in primary/alternate designation, MTFCC, and gaps in the geometry.
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