The SSN Numbering Scheme 000-00-0000 The nine-digit SSN is composed of three parts: The first set of three digits is called the Area Number The second set of two digits is called the Group Number The final set of four digits is the Serial Number The Area Number is assigned based on the geographical region in which the person resided at the time the social security number was issued. Generally, numbers were assigned beginning in the northeast and moving westward. So people on the East Coast have the lowest numbers and those on the West Coast have the highest numbers. (See the list of the geographical number assignments.) The remaining six digits in the number are more or less randomly assigned and were organized to facilitate the early manual bookkeeping operations associated with the creation of Social Security in the 1930s. They have no significance beyond these internal bookkeeping procedures. Social Security Numbers by Geographic Region 000-00-9999 001-003 New Hampshire 004-007 Maine 008-009 Vermont 010-034 Massachusetts 035-039 Rhode Island 040-049 Connecticut 050-134 New York 135-158 New Jersey 159-211 Pennsylvania 212-220 Maryland 221-222 Delaware 223-231 Virginia 232-236 West Virginia 232, 237-246 North Carolina 247-251 South Carolina 252-260 Georgia 261-267 Florida 268-302 Ohio 303-317 Indiana 318-361 Illinois 362-386 Michigan 387-399 Wisconsin 400-407 Kentucky 408-415 Tennessee 416-424 Alabama 425-428 Mississippi 429-432 Arkansas 433-439 Louisiana 440-448 Oklahoma 449-467 Texas 468-477 Minnesota 478-485 Iowa 486-500 Missouri 501-502 North Dakota 503-504 South Dakota 505-508 Nebraska 509-515 Kansas 516-517 Montana 518-519 Idaho 520 Wyoming 521-52 Colorado 525 New Mexico 526-527 Arizona 528-529 Utah 530 Nevada 531-539 Washington 540-544 Oregon 545-573 California 574 Alaska 575-576 Hawaii 577-579 District of Columbia 580 Virgin Islands 580-584 Puerto Rico 585 New Mexico 586 Guam 586 American Samoa 586 Philippine Islands 586 Northern Mariana Islands 587-588 Mississippi 589-595 Florida 596-599 Puerto Rico 600-601 Arizona 602-626 California 627-645 Texas 646-647 Utah 648-649 New Mexico 650-653 Wisconsin 700-728 Railroad Retirement Board 750-751 Hawaii 752-755 Mississippi 756-763 Tennessee Note: Some numbers are shown more than once because they have either been transferred from one State to another or divided for use among certain geographic locations. -------------------------------------------------------------------- John D. Stone jdstone@erols.com http://www.erols.com/jdstone Visit the "Latter-day Saints' Resources on the Internet" -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Death is a graduation day and a time of assessment to see what we have become. -- Sterling W. Sill (Ensign, November 1976, page 46) --------------------------------------------------------------------