A kitchen remodel or a roof repair near Lebanon brings quotes and follow-up calls.
Give each contractor its own 223 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the ones you did not choose.
Local 223 numbers
Get a 223 phone number for Harrisburg, Lancaster and York.
Ask for 223 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as south central Pennsylvania, from Harrisburg to Lancaster. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 223 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 223 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
Room for rent
(223) 555-0141
Forwarding
Truck for sale
(223) 555-0118
Texts only
Roof repair quotes
(223) 555-0172
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People ask for 223 when the search is in Harrisburg, Lancaster or York.
A used truck or a trailer for sale near York draws buyers all season.
Post a 223 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
A room for rent near a campus in Carlisle draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 223 number and burn the number once the lease is signed.
This is where a 223 number is from.
Area code 223 is an all-services overlay of 717, so it serves the same south central part of Pennsylvania, including the cities of Harrisburg, Lancaster, Lebanon, York and Gettysburg.
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission's rate center map adds Carlisle, Chambersburg, Hershey, Hanover, Mechanicsburg, Ephrata and Lititz.
Harrisburg, Lancaster and York, PA
Area code 223 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
717
Shares the area
2017
223
This code
- Harrisburg
- Lancaster
- York
- Lebanon
- Gettysburg
- Carlisle
- Chambersburg
- Hershey
- Hanover
- Mechanicsburg
- Ephrata
- Lititz
These are the facts about area code 223.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Harrisburg, Lancaster and York, Pennsylvania
- In service since
- 2017
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 717 (1947)
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission ordered the 223 overlay on October 27, 2016, so no one had to change a number. The code entered service on September 26, 2017 over the area that already had 717.
Every call in the area has needed all ten digits since August 26, 2017, whether the number starts with 223 or 717.
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People ask these questions about getting a 223 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 223 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 Pennsylvania: 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 223 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 223 area takes in Harrisburg, Lancaster, York, Lebanon and Gettysburg. 717 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-501, January 23, 2017
- Pennsylvania Bulletin, Public Utility Commission order of October 27, 2016 on the 717 overlay, 46 Pa.B. 7226
- Pennsylvania Bulletin, Public Utility Commission order of January 19, 2017 on the 717 overlay, 47 Pa.B. 805
- Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, area codes in central Pennsylvania
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