A database of all 8,331* license plates available in the U.S. (50 states + D.C.) as of June / July 2023. This should be considered a snapshot, as license plate offerings change frequently.
This data goes with the story All of the 8,291 License Plates in America, published by Jon Keegan at Beautiful Public Data.
*Update Sept. 28, 2023: This story's dataset was updated to include Illinois' military plates which were omitted in error.
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| state | State postal code abbreviation. |
| plate_title | The title of the plate collected from the agency website. |
| plate_img | The filename of the local plate image file. |
| source_img | The plate image online at the time of collection. |
| source | The page that contains the plate listing. |
us-license-plates.csv 1.6MB. 8,344 rows. First row is the header.
You will find the license plate images in /plates with subdirectories named with the postal abbreviation for each state (and D.C.).
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