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Get a 206 phone number for Seattle.

Ask for 206 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number on your listing reads as Seattle. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap when you are finished.

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This is how you get a 206 number.

  1. Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
  2. Type 206 as the area code and give the number a name.
  3. Hand it out. Calls ring the phone you already carry, and texts land in your inbox.
  4. Burn it in one tap when you are done. Calls and texts to it stop at once.
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People ask for 206 because it is the Seattle code.

A room in a shared house brings a lot of callers.

Put a 206 number on the post. It rings your phone, and it is gone once you have picked a housemate.

Selling a bike or a kayak means strangers with your number.

Let them have one that stops working the moment the sale is done.

A tech meetup or a conference scans your badge.

Register with a number you already plan to burn, and the sales calls land nowhere.

This is where a 206 number is from.

Area code 206 covers Seattle and a handful of places right beside it.

To the north that is Shoreline and Lake Forest Park. On the water it is Mercer Island, Bainbridge Island and Vashon Island. To the south it reaches the northern part of Des Moines, a city that is split between 206 and 253.

  • Seattle
  • Shoreline
  • Lake Forest Park
  • Mercer Island
  • Bainbridge Island
  • Vashon Island
  • Des Moines

These are the facts about area code 206.

From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 13, 2026.

Place
Seattle, Washington
In service since
1947
Local calls are dialed with
Ten digits
Shares its area with
564 (2025)
Codes split from it
360 (1995), 253 (1997) and 425 (1997)

206 is one of the original codes of 1947. Three codes have been split from it: 360 in 1995, then 253 and 425 together in 1997.

For decades after that 206 stood alone. On June 10, 2025, a second code, 564, was extended over the same area. 564 had already been laid over the neighboring 360 area since 2017. A local call in Seattle is dialed with ten digits.

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People ask these questions about getting a 206 number.

More in the full FAQ.

Create a number in your dashboard, type 206 as the area code and give it a name, such as Kayak for sale. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in Seattle: calls ring the phone you already carry.

Yes, for taking calls and texts. A bike mechanic or a house cleaner can put a 206 number on the flyer and the website, take the calls on their own phone and set it to Texts only when they are off the clock.

Yes. The 206 area code takes in Mercer Island, Bainbridge Island and Vashon Island along with Seattle, Shoreline and Lake Forest Park. 564 was added over the same area in 2025 and also reaches the 360 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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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. Read October 13, 2026.

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