Jamaica Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Dec 8, 2025

Updated: December 8, 2025

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Jamaica Address Format Guide

In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the standard address format used in Jamaica. 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.

Jamaica - Address Format

An address format in Jamaica contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
House Number and Street Name
City Name
Parish Name (if different from the city)
Country – JAMAICA (in all caps)

John Smith
29 Constant Spring Rd
Kingston
JAMAICA

Jamaica Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
4 Ensom Cres
Spanish Town
St. Catherine
JAMAICA

Example 2:

Jamaica Post Office
115 Hope Rd
Kingston
JAMAICA

Postal and Country Information for Jamaica

Country/territory name	Jamaica
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: JM ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: JAM ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 388
Administrative area count	14
Administration area names and abbreviations	Clarendon Hanover Kingston Manchester Portland Saint Andrew Saint Ann Saint Catherine Saint Elizabeth Saint James Saint Mary Saint Thomas Trelawny Westmoreland	13 9 1 12 4 2 6 14 11 8 5 3 7 10
Term to describe postal codes	Postal code
Postal code format	-
Population	2 811 867
Total land area	10 958km²

How to Validate Addresses for Jamaica Using GeoPostcodes Database

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

Use GeoPostcodes:

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

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

Locality column to validate City names
Region 1 column to validate Parish names

Explore our Jamaica address database.

Our location dataset for Jamaica

Jamaica ZIP Codes

Some countries do not use ZIP or postal codes, and Jamaica is one of them. Instead of a national postal code system, locations are identified using cities, localities, and administrative divisions. The database reflects this structure by standardizing these place-based identifiers into a unified global schema, ensuring consistent validation and reliable cross-country comparisons even in the absence of ZIP codes.

Jamaica ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Jamaica 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.

Jamaica Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Jamaica’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.