diff --git a/scripts/geodata/address_formatting/formatter.py b/scripts/geodata/address_formatting/formatter.py
index 30a59725..64334ae9 100644
--- a/scripts/geodata/address_formatting/formatter.py
+++ b/scripts/geodata/address_formatting/formatter.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import copy
 import os
 import pystache
+import random
 import re
 import six
 import subprocess
@@ -316,6 +317,10 @@ class AddressFormatter(object):
 
         return component_insertions
 
+    def inverted(self, template):
+        lines = template.split(six.u('\n'))
+        return six.u('\n').join(reversed(lines))
+
     def house_number_before_road(self, country, language=None):
         key = value = None
         if language is not None:
@@ -352,14 +357,21 @@ class AddressFormatter(object):
         self.global_insertions = self.insertion_probs(config)
         self.global_conditionals = self.conditional_insertion_probs(config)
 
+        self.global_invert_probability = self.config.get('invert_probability', 0.0)
+
         self.country_insertions = {}
         self.country_conditionals = {}
 
+        self.country_invert_probabilities = {}
+
         for country, config in six.iteritems(self.country_configs):
             if 'insertions' in config:
                 self.country_insertions[country.lower()] = self.insertion_probs(config['insertions'])
                 self.country_conditionals[country.lower()] = self.conditional_insertion_probs(config['insertions'])
 
+            if 'invert_probability' in config:
+                self.country_invert_probabilities[country] = config['invert_probability']
+
         self.language_insertions = {}
         self.language_conditionals = {}
 
@@ -616,6 +628,11 @@ class AddressFormatter(object):
 
         cache_keys = []
 
+        invert_probability = self.country_invert_probabilities.get(country, self.global_invert_probability)
+        if random.random() < invert_probability:
+            template = self.inverted(template)
+            cache_keys.append('inverted')
+
         for component in sorted(components, key=self.component_order.get):
             scope = country
             insertions = nested_get(self.country_insertions, (country, component), default=None)