#
|
Street Name
|
10,902
|
Main
|
10,259
|
Second
|
9,673
|
First
|
9,556
|
Third
|
8,628
|
Fourth
|
7,557
|
Fifth
|
7,281
|
Park
|
6,574
|
Sixth
|
6,143
|
Oak
|
5,732
|
Seventh
|
5,636
|
Maple
|
5,397
|
Pine
|
5,052
|
Washington
|
|
#
|
Street Name
|
5,045
|
Eighth
|
4,766
|
Cedar
|
4,671
|
Elm
|
4,366
|
Walnut
|
4,312
|
Ninth
|
4,232
|
Tenth
|
4,011
|
Lake
|
3,653
|
Sunset
|
3,632
|
Lincoln
|
3,459
|
Jackson
|
3,453
|
Church
|
3,331
|
River
|
3,331
|
Eleventh
|
|
#
|
Street Name
|
3,280
|
Willow
|
3,241
|
Jefferson
|
3,212
|
Center
|
3,201
|
Twelfth
|
3,085
|
North
|
2,925
|
Lakeview
|
2,897
|
Ridge
|
2,883
|
Hickory
|
2,834
|
Adams
|
2,829
|
Cherry
|
2,819
|
Highland
|
2,732
|
Johnson
|
|
#
|
Street Name
|
2,707
|
South
|
2,656
|
Dogwood
|
2,652
|
West
|
2,649
|
Chestnut
|
2,641
|
Thirteenth
|
2,594
|
Spruce
|
2,584
|
Fourteenth
|
2,565
|
Wilson
|
2,538
|
Meadow
|
2,523
|
Forest
|
2,513
|
Hill
|
2,498
|
Madison
|
|
but I didn't even think of trees, so the misspelled twelfth was not to blame for my dismal performance. Darn it.
Comment:
Source: US Census Shapefile Data (Primary & Secondary Roads) Tools: Excel
streets with similar names were combined - i.e. '4th St NW,' '4th Ave' and 'S 4th' are all totaled under the name '4th'
Comment
yep - https://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles2014/layers.cgi - pick national primary/secondary roads...but then you have to do a bit of work to separate different roads based on the points in the shapefiles, there are millions of lines.
Selecting only primary and secondary roads only picks a minority of streets and roads. This data is bogus.
Primary roads are generally divided limited-access highways within the Federal interstate highway system or under state management. Interchanges and ramps distinguish these roads, and some are toll highways...
Secondary roads are main arteries, usually in the U.S. highway, state highway, or county highway system. ...
The all roads shapefile contains all linear street features with Street (“S”) type MTFCCs in the MAF/TIGER System (e.g., primary roads, secondary roads, local neighborhood roads, rural roads, city streets, vehicular trails [4WD], ramps, service drives, walkways, stairways, alleys and private roads)
In order to compile this list in a meaningful way, you'd have to start with the All Roads data, not Pri/Sec roads, and then do quite a bit of filtering to get at "streets".
I don't think there's a simple way of going about this--I thought about compiling my own data but there's too much about this data I don't understand and it would be easy to make it misleading. The "All Roads" data is separated by county; if a road crosses county lines is it two roads? Should you count each name as a road or just a primary one? (Or a local one)? You would need to filter out some of the categories we don't consider streets (walkways, trails, etc.) and make sure you filter in all of the others. But do interstates and state routes count as street names?
For what it's worth, I was suspicious that letter streets didn't appear at all, since my intuition is that they're pretty common--maybe not as common as numbered streets.
Here's an updated list using 2023 data.
I've also at least shown my work so if there are comments on its accuracy, inaccuracy or suggested improvements, interested parties can create a pull request there.
See the useful formula here
But, all of those smaller towns in the midwest and mountain states, definitely not.
If only I had remembered the numbers (after still being on 3 after several minutes I was really stumped, like huh, what DO they call their streets?) Very weird how the ranking of the numbers is quite random.. you expect it would be in order, like why is twelfth lower than thirteenth and fourteenth (ok 13 I might get). 2, 5, 3, 6, 4, 1, 7, 10, 9, 8, 11, 14, 13, 12 Quite weird indeed. (ok some have the same percentages, so could also be 2, 3, 5, 4, 1, 6, 7, 10, 9, 8, 11, 13, 14, 12.)
Thank you
Maybe they're counted differently (shady creek, and little creek, wouldn't count towards a "creek" entry), or there are too many compound(?) forms (sunshine rd, vs sunny ln)
lol, my bad. Ignore my weak sense of humor.