U.S. passenger car license plate

Rick Kretschmer's License Plate Archives

U.S. passenger car license plate

Gallery of Current U.S. License Plates

Standard issue and no-cost optional passenger car plates in current use

Plates from 51 of 56 states and other jurisdictions are shown on this page.

Latest noteworthy updates to this page

February 16, 2015 – Added photo of an optional Montana plate. Moved current Nevada palte to the recent column, as they're now issuing plates with a different numbering format.
January 22, 2015 – Added photo of the current Alabama optional God Bless America plate. Replaced photo of the current Utah Greatest Snow on Earth plate. Removed previous-generation Alabama standard and optional plates, as they're no longer in use.
October 14, 2014 – Added photos of current Rhode Island, District of Columbia, and Alabama plates. Added a photo of a current Nebraska county-coded plate. Replaced photo of a current Nebraska metro-area format plate.
September 18, 2014 – Replaced photos of current Minnesota and Wisconsin plates.
August 11, 2014 – Added images of current Georgia no-cost optional and Mississppi plates, and an older-format New Jersey plate. Replaced candid image of a current Ohio plate with that of one I've added to my collection. Replaced candid image of a current Missouri plate with that of one I've acquired. Replaced someone else's photo of a current North Dakota plate with a candid photo I took myself. Replaced candid image of a current Vermont plate with another candid image with the expiration sticker in the correct position. Removed embossed Iowa plate, as this design is no longer in use.
June 12, 2014 – Added a photo of the new flat New Jersey plate. Replaced candid photo of the current Indiana standard plate with that of one I've added to my collection.
April 5, 2014 – Added a photo of the new standard-issue Virginia is for Lovers plate.
March 10, 2014 – Added a current Nebraska plate. Moved current Virginia palte to the recent column, as they're now issuing a plate with the tourism slogan Virginia is for Lovers at the bottom.

Introduction

The images shown on this page are U.S. passenger car plate designs that are in current use. Both standard plates and optional designs available for no additional cost are shown. Optional designs that cost extra are far too numerous for the scope of this project, and therefore are not shown.

The left column shows the plate design and serial format currently being issued; included in the right column are older designs no longer being issued but still on the road, and additional serial formats that either are concurrently being issued or were previously issued. Only older designs and formats issued within about the last 20 years or so, and still in use, are shown. Even so, not all such older designs and formats are shown, either due to space considerations, or because I do not have any photo available.

Passenger car plates are used not just for sedans, but also station wagons, mini-vans, and sport-utility vehicles (SUVs), in all states except Delaware and Maryland. For those two states, I've included images of both sedan and non-sedan private passenger vehicle plates. In some states, passenger car plates are also used for other types of vehicles, such as pickup trucks, motor homes, and buses; however, I'm not otherwise addressing these vehicle types on this page.

If you have, or can take, a digital photo of a plate not shown below, send it to me in an e-mail attachment. I'll add it to this page, and will credit you for submitting it.

Gallery of current U.S. passenger car plates

Plates shown on this page are from a variety of sources, including my collection, my trade box, plates in actual use, and submissions by others. All photographs were taken by me, unless otherwise credited.

New England
	Current design and format	Recent designs and/or other serial formats also in use
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut		(Clinchy photo, stickered plate above)
Northeast
	Current design and format	Recent designs and/or other serial formats also in use
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware (sedans)
Delaware (station wagons, mini-vans, SUVs)
Maryland (sedans, station wagons)
Maryland (mini-vans, SUVs)
District of Columbia (standard)
District of Columbia (no-cost option)
Mid-South
	Current design and format	Recent designs and/or other serial formats also in use
Virginia
West Virginia (standard)
West Virginia (no-cost option)
Kentucky (standard)
Kentucky (no-cost option)
Tennessee
North Carolina
Southeast
	Current design and format	Recent designs and/or other serial formats also in use
South Carolina (standard)
South Carolina (no-cost option)
Georgia	(Fazekas plate, above)
Georgia (no-cost option)
Florida (standard #1)
Florida (standard #2)
Florida (no-cost option)
Alabama (standard)
Alabama (no-cost option)
Mississippi
Great Lakes
	Current design and format	Recent designs and/or other serial formats also in use
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana (standard)
Indiana (no-cost option)
Illinois
Wisconsin
North Central
	Current design and format	Recent designs and/or other serial formats also in use
Iowa
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
South Central
	Current design and format	Recent designs and/or other serial formats also in use
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Louisiana
Texas
Southwest
	Current design and format	Recent designs and/or other serial formats also in use
New Mexico (standard #1)	(Jackson photo, above)
New Mexico (standard #2)
Colorado
Utah (standard #1)
Utah (standard #2)	(Jackson photo, above)
Arizona
Nevada
California	(D. Kretschmer photo, above)
Northwest
	Current design and format	Recent designs and/or other serial formats also in use
Wyoming
Montana (standard)
Montana (no cost option)
Idaho
Oregon
Washington	(Clinchy photo, above)
Alaska
Islands
	Current design and format	Recent designs and/or other serial formats also in use
U.S. Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico
Hawaii
American Samoa
Guam
Northern Mariana Islands

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Page credits

Thanks to those who have directly contributed to the information on this page: Chirstopher Jackson, Ross Clinchy, Jeff Fazekas, and Debbie Kretschmer.

Jackson, Clinchy, D. Kretschmer, and Hager photographs are presumed to be copyrighted, and were submitted by and used with permission of Chirstopher Jackson, Ross Clinchy, and Debbie Kretschmer, respectively. Fazekas plate is from the collection of Jeff Fazekas.

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This page last updated February 16, 2015