Ohio · sequential passenger map
Ohio license-plate format
Ohio passenger plates use three letters, a space, and four digits. In this atlas the pattern string uses A for a letter slot and 9 for a digit slot. Other characters are separators that appear on the metal but do not enlarge the combination space.
- Pattern
- AAA 9999
- Classes
- 3 letters + 4 digits
- Alphabet size
- 26
- Skipped letters
- none modelled
- Combination count
- 175,760,000
- Model year
- 2012
How the map works
Each A slot independently takes one glyph from ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Each 9 slot takes 0–9. The product of those bases is 175,760,000 — the size of the sequential space taught here. Hyphens, spaces and dots in AAA 9999 are display only.
Ohio kept county stickers in the corners and a statewide ABC 1234 serial on the heart / sunrise graphic.
Before this map, Ohio used ABC 1234 county-sticker heart graphic. Optional graphics (universities, military, environmental) can look nothing like the sequential passenger die and are not counted in the 175,760,000 figure.
SPR 9932 is in-class. Display uses a space: SPR 9932.
Generated versus issued
A string that fits AAA 9999 is in-class. It is not automatically an issued plate. Series can skip blocks, retire numbers, or reserve low digits. This essay never queries a motor-vehicle file. See also generated vs issued.