The most common residential address in the country: 201 Main St. More than 400 properties have that address, according to a new study released by ATTOM Data Solutions, a real estate research firm.
Even with the house number aside, Main Street is the most popular residential street name to live on, followed by numbered streets.
Overall, researchers say these are the top 10 most common street names in the U.S.:
Main Street
2nd Street
3rd Street
4th Street
5th Street
6th Street
7th Street
1st Street
8th Street
9th Street
The most popular shared addresses in the country are:
201 Main St.
15 Maple St.
104 Elm St.
Do street names make a difference in a real estate sale? A 2012 study suggests they can. For example, street addresses with words like “Boulevard,” “Place,” and “Road” were found to have higher average asking prices than homes with addresses ending in “Avenue,” “Drive,” or “Street,” according to the study conducted a decade ago by Trulia. At the time, homes that were located on streets with the word “Boulevard” in the address sold on average about $117 per square foot compared to properties located on addresses with “Lane,” which sold on average for $101 per square foot, or “Street,” which sold for about $86 per square foot.
A separate study conducted in 2015 by realtor.com® suggested that street names with more feminine names—like Pearl, Elizabeth, and Rose—tended to be more expensive than those with male street names, such as Jackson, Grant, and Cooper. Read more: Male vs. Female: Which Street Name Is Worth More?
Even with the house number aside, Main Street is the most popular residential street name to live on, followed by numbered streets
numbered streets
A numbered street is a street whose name is an ordinal number, as in Second Street or Tenth Avenue. Such forms are among the most common street names in North America, but also exist in other parts of the world, especially in Colombia, which takes the system to an extreme, and the Middle East.
For decades we have believed that the most popular name for a road was “2nd.” But by my analysis, that crown actually goes to “Park.” (Again, look to the methodology section for a discussion of this.) Out of over a million roads in the United States, 9,640 are named “Park.” Only 8,232 are named “2nd,” or “Second.”
There are more than 10,000 streets in the United States named “Main.” When “Main Street” versus “Wall Street” became a talking point in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, following the wake of the financial crisis, a team of radio producers and graduate students set out to document Main Streets across the U.S. Their ...
Though there could be myriad reasons for this, the most commonly held thought is that many towns had a Main Street instead of a First Street, but almost all towns—whether they were Main Street towns or First Street towns—had Second Streets.
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