The 1040 Federal limit on street address length is 35 characters. If the street address, including an apartment number, exceeds the limit, federal EF Message 5025 will generate.

Some states have a lower character restriction than the federal limit on the allowed length of the filer's street address including the Apt #. If the state does produce this message, the street address will need to be abbreviated to satisfy the state's limits.

The street address character limit includes the spaces in the address. For example: 12 Main Street, is 14 characters long, including spaces.

States Messages

State	EF Message Produced	Character Limit
AL	0325	32
IN	1237	30
MD	0045	30

Abbreviations

Examples of street abbreviations used by the Postal Service:

• Alley > Aly

• Avenue > Ave

• Boulevard > Blvd

• Circle > Cir

• Cove > Cv

• Creek > Crk

• Crossroads > Xrds

• Drive > Dr

• Expressway > Expy

• Freeway > Fwy

• Heights > Hts

• Highway > Hwy

• Motorway > Mtwy

• Mountain > Mtn

• Parkway > Pkwy

• Street > St

• Terrace > Ter

• Road > Rd