Austria Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Jul 9, 2025

Updated: July 9, 2025

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Austria Address Format Guide

In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the standard address format used in Austria. Whether you’re shipping packages, sending mail, or validating addresses for your business, understanding the proper address structure is essential for successful deliveries. We’ll cover the basic elements, provide examples, and explain how GeoPostcodes can help with address validation.

Austria - Address Format

An address format in Austria contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
Street name and House number
Postal Code (4 digits) and City Name
Country – AUSTRIA (in all caps)

John Smith
Karl-Schönherr-Gasse 27
8042 Graz
AUSTRIA

Austria Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Lasserstraße 4
5020 Salzburg
AUSTRIA

Example 2:

Austria Post Office
Faulmanngasse 6
1040 Wien
AUSTRIA

Postal and Country Information for Austria

Country/territory name	Austria
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: AT ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: AUT ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 40
Administrative area count	9
Administration area names and abbreviations	Burgenland Carinthia Lower Austria Salzburg Styria Tyrol Upper Austria Vienna Vorarlberg	1 2 3 5 6 7 4 9 8
Term to describe postal codes	PLZ
Postal code format	9999
Population	8 995 309
Total land area	83 955km²

How to Validate Addresses for Austria Using GeoPostcodes Database

GeoPostcodes offers comprehensive address validation database to validate Austria addresses. Our database ensures addresses follow the correct format for Austria, reducing delivery errors and improving efficiency.

Use GeoPostcodes:

Address Database to validate Street Names, Postal Codes and Cities in Austria
Postal Database if you only need to validate Postal Codes and Cities in Austria
Population Database if you would like to do urban/rural mapping or compute how many people live in Austria segmented by postal code, city or administrative divisions

You can leverage GeoPostcodes data to validate addresses in Austria using:

Street column to validate Street names
Postcode column to validate Postal Codes
Region 3 or Locality (Vienna) column to validate City names

Explore our Austria address database.

Our location dataset for Austria

Austria ZIP Codes

Austria uses a “PLZ” system, which is a four-digit numeric format, like 9999, with no letters or separators. This is similar to US ZIP codes, which are also numeric, but US ZIP codes are five digits long compared to Austria’s four. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Austria has 2,506 postal codes covering 2,217 regions and 17,018 towns.

Austria ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Austria administrative landscape often follows inconsistent regional models and irregular public sources, making it difficult to maintain reliable boundaries. Our standardized postal and administrative boundary data resolves these gaps to ensure complete, coherent geographic coverage.

Austria Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Austria’s address structure, ensuring consistent, accurate, and globally aligned formatting across your systems. The dataset captures the official address elements required by the national postal operator and maps them into our unified global schema.