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Get a 220 phone number for Athens, Newark and Lancaster.

Ask for 220 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as southeast and central Ohio, from Newark to Athens. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.

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This is how you get a 220 number.

  1. Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
  2. Type 220 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 220 when the search is in Athens, Newark or Lancaster.

A room for rent near a campus in Athens or Marietta draws calls from many strangers.

List it with a 220 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.

A used truck or a trailer for sale near Zanesville or Chillicothe draws buyers all season.

Post a 220 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.

A roofing quote or a moving job in Newark or Delaware ends in follow-up calls.

Give each company its own 220 number. Block the ones you did not choose.

This is where a 220 number is from.

Area code 220 is an all-services overlay of 740, so it serves the same southeastern portion of Ohio, and the numbering administrator names Athens, Cambridge, Delaware, Jackson, Lancaster, Marion, Newark, Marietta, Portsmouth and Zanesville among its communities.

The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio describes the area as parts of central and southeast Ohio. Columbus and the rest of Franklin County use 614 and 380.

  • Newark
  • Delaware
  • Lancaster
  • Marion
  • Athens
  • Zanesville
  • Chillicothe
  • Steubenville
  • Portsmouth
  • Marietta
  • Cambridge
  • Jackson

These are the facts about area code 220.

From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.

Place
Southeast and central Ohio, Ohio
In service since
2015
Local calls are dialed with
Ten digits
Shares its area with
740 (1997)

On December 11, 2013, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved an overlay for the 740 area, so no one had to change a number. 220 entered service on April 22, 2015, over the area that already had 740.

Every local call has needed all ten digits since March 21, 2015, whether the number starts with 220 or 740.

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People ask these questions about getting a 220 number.

More in the full FAQ.

Create a number in your dashboard, type 220 as the area code and give it a name, such as Room for rent. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in Ohio: calls ring the phone you already carry.

Yes, for taking calls and texts. A mover, a tutor or a baker in Lancaster can put a 220 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 220 area takes in Athens, Newark, Lancaster, Zanesville and Portsmouth. 740 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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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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