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Rear Only vs Front & Rear License Plate Requirements By US State. Map by reddit user benannas

The map above shows which states require front and rear license plates vs those that only require rear license plates across the US. Overall, the majority of US states (62.75%) and a majority of people (62.73%) live in states that require both.

And in case you’re wondering about the two exceptions they are:

  • Massachusetts: Since 1988 all vehicles have been required to use front and rear plates. However, license plates issued since 1978 remain valid, thus older cars were grandfathered into the system.
  • Nevada: Display of the front license plate is optional for vehicles that either are not specifically designed to have a front plate, or the manufacturer did not provide a plate bracket or other means for front display of a license plate. As a result of this discrepancy, the law to display both the front and rear plates is rarely enforced, and it is not uncommon for owners of vehicles with Nevada license plates to remove the manufacturer-supplied front license plate brackets from their vehicles and display only the rear plate. (source: wikipedia)

The full list of states with rear only license plate requirements are:

  • Alabama
  • Arizona
  • Arkansas
  • Delaware
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Indiana
  • Kansas
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
  • Michigan
  • Mississippi
  • New Mexico
  • North Carolina
  • Oklahoma
  • Pennsylvania
  • South Carolina
  • Tennessee
  • West Virginia

Note: Puerto Rico also only requires a rear license plate.

All other states including Washington DC and US Virgin Islands require both front and rear plates.

Interestingly, America’s next door neighbour doesn’t exactly follow America’s trends. While the majority of Canadians (57.31%) live in a province requiring both a front and rear license plate only 4 out of 13 (30.77%) of provinces and territories require both.

Rear Only vs Front & Rear License Plate Requirements By Canadian Province & Territory map by reddit user bryan89wr

Only the following 4 provinces require both (in order of population):

  • Ontario
  • British Columbia
  • Manitoba
  • New Brunswick

The following 9 provinces and territories only require rear plates:

  • Quebec
  • Alberta
  • Saskatchewan
  • Nova Scotia
  • Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Prince Edward Island
  • Northwest Territories
  • Yukon
  • Nunavut

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In Canada, licence plate numbers are usually assigned in ascending order, beginning with a starting point such as AAA-001. Thus, someone familiar with the sequence can determine roughly when the licence plate was issued. After Ontario's transition to an ABCD-123 format in 1997, plates were issued in ascending order starting with AAAA-001. It took close to ten years to exhaust the supply of plate numbers with A as the first digit. In late 2006, plates with B as the first digit were assigned, and have continued from there sequentially. Plates with C as the first digit have been spotted in Ottawa and Toronto as of August 2016.

The gradual increase in the use of letters in the serials of licence plates has given rise to an increased possibility of unintentional profane or inappropriate words or messages arising from the use of sequential alphanumeric combinations. Thus, numbering sequences generally exclude certain combinations of letters or numbers that would be potentially offensive. Jurisdictions' attention to excluding offensive combinations varies widely, however. In 1986, Waldale, a Canadian licence plate manufacturer, due to a production error, produced an entire batch of New Brunswick plates that began with the letters ASS. The plates were issued, and were unofficially scrapped, but many found their way into the collectors' black market.

From 1971 to 1975, Manitoba's licence plate bore the slogan 'Sunny Manitoba: 100,000 lakes' [1] but was changed to 'Friendly Manitoba', possibly due to conflict with Minnesota's '10,000 lakes' slogan.[citation needed]

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