A game weekend in Tuscaloosa brings buyers for a spare ticket or a parking spot.
Post a 205 number, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the listing.
Local 205 numbers
Get a 205 phone number for Birmingham.
Ask for 205 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Birmingham and the towns around it. Calls ring the phone you already carry, and you burn the number when you are done.
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This is how you get a 205 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 205 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
Game tickets
(205) 555-0113
Texts only
House for rent
(205) 555-0147
Forwarding
Job applications
(205) 555-0186
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People ask for 205 when the search is around Birmingham.
A house for rent in Gardendale or Trussville draws calls all week.
Take the calls on your own phone with a 205 number, and burn the number the day a lease is signed.
A job hunt in Birmingham hands your number to a long list of employers.
Put a 205 number on every application. When you have an offer, the other calls have nowhere to go.
This is where a 205 number is from.
Area code 205 covers Birmingham and western central Alabama.
The numbering administrator names Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, Bessemer, Jasper and Fayette. Its rate center map for the area also shows Alabaster, Trussville, Gardendale, Pell City, Clanton, Leeds and Hamilton.
Birmingham, AL
Area code 205 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
205
This code
1995
334
Split off
1998
256
Split off
2019
659
Shares the area
- Birmingham
- Tuscaloosa
- Bessemer
- Jasper
- Alabaster
- Trussville
- Gardendale
- Pell City
- Clanton
- Leeds
- Fayette
- Hamilton
These are the facts about area code 205.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Birmingham, Alabama
- In service since
- 1947
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 659 (2019)
- Codes split from it
- 334 (1995) and 256 (1998)
205 is one of the original codes of 1947. Two codes have been split from it: 334 in 1995 and 256 in 1998. In the 1998 split, Huntsville and the northeastern part of the Birmingham area went to 256, and the Birmingham and Tuscaloosa areas kept 205.
A second code, 659, was laid over the same area. The Alabama Public Service Commission approved the overlay on August 7, 2018, ten-digit dialing for local calls became mandatory on October 12, 2019, and 659 entered service on November 12, 2019.
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People ask these questions about getting a 205 number.
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Create a number in your dashboard, type 205 as the area code and give it a name, such as House for rent. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in Birmingham: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A caterer, a lawn crew or a hair stylist in Bessemer or Alabaster can put a 205 number on the flyer and the website, take the calls on their own phone and burn the number when the season ends.
Yes. The 205 area takes in Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, Bessemer, Jasper and Alabaster. 659 numbers cover the same area, and Huntsville uses 256.
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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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.
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