Austria Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

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:

  1. Recipient’s name
  2. Business or department name (if applicable)
  3. Street name and House number
  4. Postal Code (4 digits) and City Name
  5. 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