Article 2148 (25 more) in alt.privacy:
From: hhll@milton.u.washington.edu (Steven Hodas)
Subject: Decoding Social Security numbers
Date: 8 Sep 92 07:27:03 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
Lines: 43
I found this on CI$:
Decoding the Social Security Number
(from “Social-Security-Numbers And Other Telling Information:”
by Simson Garfinkel, published in the Whole Earth Review, Fall 1989)
The first three digits of a person’s Social Security Number indicate
the state that the person was living in at the time the number was
assigned (see table). The exceptions to this rule are numbers in the
700-729 range, which were issued by the Railroad Retirement agency, the
only such retirement plan to have its own block of SSNs.
The fourth and fifth digits indicate the group number. The sequence is
reported to be odd numbers from 01-09, then even numbers from 10-98, then
even numbers 02-08, and finally odd numbers 11-99. All numbers issued
before 1965 are either odd numbers between 01 and 09, or even numbers
between 10 and 98. The last four digits are the “serial number,” and run
from 0001 to 9999…
001-003 New Hampshire 318-361 Illinois 520 Wyoming
004-007 Maine 362-386 Michigan 521-524 Colorado
008-009 Vermont 387-399 Wisonsin 525 New Mexico
010-034 Massachusetts 400-407 Kentucky 585 New Mexico
035-039 Rhode Island 408-415 Tennessee 526-527 Arizona
040-049 Connecticut 416-424 Alabama 528-529 Utah
050-134 New York 425-428 Mississippi 530 Nevada
135-158 New Jersey 587-588 Mississippi 531-539 Washington
159-211 Pennsylvania 429-432 Arkansas 540-544 Oregon
212-220 Maryland 433-439 Louisiana 545-573 California
221-222 Delaware 440-448 Oklahoma 574 Alaska
223-231 Virginia 449-467 Texas 575-576 Hawaii
232-236 West Virginia 468-477 Minnesota 577-579 Washington, DC
232 N. Carolina (1) 478-485 Iowa 580 Virgin Islands
237-246 N. Carolina 486-500 Missouri 580-584 Puerto Rico
247-251 S. Carolina 501-502 N. Dakota 586 Guam
252-260 Georgia 503-504 S. Dakota 586 American Samoa
261-267 Florida 505-508 Nebraska 586 Phillipine Islands
589-595 Florida 509-515 Kansas 700-729 Railroad Retirement
268-302 Ohio 516-517 Montana
303-317 Indiana 518-519 Idaho
(1) Number 232, with middle digits 30, has been allocated to North Carolina
from West Virginia.
