A room or an apartment for rent near the Hudson draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 201 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 201 numbers
Get a 201 phone number for Jersey City and Bergen County.
Ask for 201 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as northeastern New Jersey, from Jersey City to Hackensack. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 201 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 201 as the area code and give the number a name.
- Hand it out. Calls ring the phone you already carry, and texts land in your inbox.
- Burn it in one tap when you are done. Calls and texts to it stop at once.
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Your numbers
Apartment for rent
(201) 555-0131
Forwarding
Used car
(201) 555-0167
Texts only
Moving quote
(201) 555-0102
Blocked
People ask for 201 when the search is in Jersey City or Bergen County.
A used car for sale in Paramus or Teaneck brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 201 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
A moving job or a catering order ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 201 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 201 number is from.
Area code 201 covers the northeastern part of New Jersey, including Bergen and Hudson counties.
The numbering administrator's list of municipalities names Jersey City, Hoboken, Bayonne, Union City, West New York, North Bergen and Secaucus in Hudson County, and Hackensack, Teaneck, Paramus, Fort Lee and Englewood in Bergen County. Newark and Paterson are in 973.
Hudson and Bergen counties, NJ
Area code 201 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
201
This code
1957
609
Split off
1990
908
Split off
1997
973
Split off
2001
551
Shares the area
- Jersey City
- Hackensack
- Hoboken
- Bayonne
- Teaneck
- Paramus
- Fort Lee
- Union City
- West New York
- North Bergen
- Englewood
- Secaucus
These are the facts about area code 201.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Hudson and Bergen counties, New Jersey
- In service since
- 1947
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 551 (2001)
- Codes split from it
- 609 (1957), 908 (1990) and 973 (1997)
201 is one of the original area codes, in service since 1947. Three codes have been split from it: 609 in 1957, 908 in 1990 and 973 in 1997.
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities approved a second code, 551, on March 19, 2001, and it entered service on December 29, 2001 over the same area. Every local call has been dialed with all ten digits since December 1, 2001.
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People ask these questions about getting a 201 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 201 as the area code and give it a name, such as Apartment for rent. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in New Jersey: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A mover, a tutor or a caterer in Hackensack can put a 201 number on the flyer and the website, take the calls on their own phone and burn the number when the job is done.
Yes. The 201 area takes in Jersey City, Hoboken, Bayonne, Hackensack, Teaneck and Fort Lee. 551 numbers cover the same area.
No. Your numbers are receive-only: they take calls and texts, and they never make them. You answer calls on your own phone, and you cannot reply to a text from the inbox.
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More area codes
Every fact on this page comes from public numbering records.
The state, the dates and the related codes are rows of the North American Numbering Plan Administrator's area code database. The places are from its planning letters and the state’s own pages. Read October 21, 2026.
- North American Numbering Plan Administrator, area code database
- NANPA planning letter PL-277, May 8, 2001
- NANPA planning letter PL-036, January 23, 1997
- New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, minutes of the Board meeting of January 25, 2017
- New Jersey Division of Rate Counsel, consumer assistance handbook
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