Rural Road Numbering

Rural Property Address Numbers are a national standard applied across Australia for rural addressing.

The standard uses a distance based system allocated in a sequence based on how far your driveway is from a nominated start of the road. Your rural property address number is therefore measured from the start of the road to the middle of your property entrance.

As a rule, odd rural property address numbers are applied to the left and even rural property address numbers are applied to the right.
If, for example, a property is allocated a rural property address number of 580, it will generally be on the left hand side and be 5.80 kilometres from the start of the road.
A rural property address number is allocated to every land parcel with a substantial building on the property, including all outbuildings and residential dwellings. The rural property address number is to replace previous RMB and lot numbers however, it does not change any legal lot number.

Once the rural road number is determined for your property, Shire staff will notify Landgate to include the rural property address in the State Addresses database.
If there are two entrances to separate buildings on a property, each of them are allocated a rural property address number. This helps to identify an entrance to a property for emergency services and ease of locating rural properties.

If you haven’t been assigned a rural property address number, or think you require one please contact the Shire of Plantagenet (08) 9892 1111 or email [email protected].

If you believe that we have made a mistake in numbering, we need to be told. This may be due to the fact that we could not clearly identify your entrance from an aerial photograph, or that you have two entrances to the same building and we did not know which the preferred address was. Whatever the reason we will examine the problem and change your address if required.