Address Related Codes
Address Part Types
Types for a address part. This list is the full set of the known types in use around the world. Most systems use only a fraction of these codes.
| line | Address line | An address line is for either an additional locator, a delivery address or a street address. An address generally has only a delivery address line or a street address line, but not both. |
| ADL | Additional locator | This can be a unit designator, such as apartment number, suite number or floor. There may be several unit designators in an address (e.g., "3rd floor, Appt. 342"). This can also be a designator pointing away from the location, rather than specifying a smaller location within some larger one (e.g., Dutch "t.o." means "opposite to" for house boats located across the street facing houses). |
| UNID | Unit identifier | The number or name of a specific unit contained within a building or complex, as assigned by that building or complex. |
| UNIT | Unit designator | Indicates the type of specific unit contained within a building or complex, e.g. apartment, floor. |
| DAL | Delivery address line | A delivery address line is frequently used instead of breaking out delivery mode, delivery installation, etc. An address generally has only a delivery address line or a street address line, but not both. |
| DINST | Delivery installation type | Indicates the type of delivery installation (the facility to which the mail will be delivered prior to final shipping via the delivery mode) e.g., post office, letter carrier depot, community mail centre, station, etc. |
| DINSTA | Delivery installation area | The location of the delivery installation, usually a town or city, and only required if the area is different from the municipality. Area to which mail delivery service is provided from any postal facility or service such as an individual letter carrier, rural route or postal route. |
| DINSTQ | Delivery installation qualifier | A number, letter or name identifying a delivery installation, e.g., for Station A, the delivery installation qualifier would be "A". |
| DMOD | Delivery mode | Indicates the type of service offered, method of delivery, e.g., post office box, rural route, general delivery, etc. |
| DMODID | Delivery mode identifier | Represents the routing information such as a letter carrier route number. It is the identifying number of the designator (the box number or rural route number). |
| SAL | Street address line | A street address line is frequently used instead of breaking out building number, street name, street type, etc. An address generally has only a delivery address line or a street address line, but not both. |
| BNR | Building number | The number of a building, house or lot alongside the street. Also known as "primary street number". This does not number the street but rather the building. |
| BNN | Building number numeric | The numeric portion of a building number. |
| BNS | Building number suffix | Any alphabetic character, fraction or other text that may appear after the numeric portion of a building number. |
| STR | Street name | The name of the street, including the type. |
| STB | Street name base | The base name of a roadway or artery recognised by a municipality (excluding street type and direction). |
| STTYP | Street type | The designation given to the street. (e.g. Street, Avenue, Crescent, etc.). |
| DIR | Direction | Direction (e.g., N, S, W, E). |
| INT | Intersection | Denotes that the actual address is located at or close to the intersection of two or more streets. |
| c/o | Care of | The name of the party who will take receipt at the specified address, and will take on responsibility for ensuring delivery to the target recipient. NOTE This is included only to support the convention of writing c/- address lines. This item is not appropriate for use when information is entrusted to one party on behalf of another in some significant way. |
| CEN | Census tract | A geographic sub-unit delineated for demographic purposes. |
| country | Country | Country. ISO 3166 3 letter codes can be used in place of a full country name |
| CPA | County or parish | A sub-unit of a state or province. (49 of the United States of America use the term "county;" Louisiana uses the term "parish"). |
| city | Municipality | The name of the city, town, village, or other community or delivery centre. |
| POB | Post box | A numbered box located in a post station. |
| PRE | Precinct | A subsection of a municipality. |
| state | State or province | A sub-unit of a country with limited sovereignty in a federally organized country. A code may be used if codes are in common use (i.e. US 2 letter state codes) |
| zip | Postal code | A postal code designating a region defined by the postal service. |
| DPID | Delivery point identifier | A value that uniquely identifies the postal address. (often used in barcodes) |
Address Uses
Use codes for a particular address in a list of addresses.
| -- | Representation Use (in Japan) |
| alpha | Alphabetic transcription of address (Japanese: romaji). |
| ideo | Ideographic representation of address (e.g., Japanese kanji, Chinese characters). |
| syllabic | Syllabic transcription of address (e.g., Japanese kana, Korean hangul). |
| home | A communication address at a home; attempted contacts for business purposes might intrude privacy and chances are one will contact family or other household members instead of the person one wishes to call. Typically used with urgent cases, or if no other contacts are available.. |
| primary | The primary home, to reach a person after business hours. |
| vacation | A vacation home, to reach a person while on vacation. |
| work | An office address. First choice for business related contacts during business hours. |
| bad | A flag indicating that the address is bad, in fact, useless. |
| physical | Used primarily to visit an address. |
| postal | Used to send mail. |
| temp | A temporary address, may be good for visit or mailing. An address history can provide more detailed information. |
| search | An address intended for use in searching or matching. |
| phonetic | The address as understood by the data enterer, i.e. a close approximation of a phonetic spelling of the address, not based on a phonetic algorithm. |
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