A room or a house for rent in Baton Rouge or Zachary draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 225 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 225 numbers
Get a 225 phone number for Baton Rouge.
Ask for 225 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Baton Rouge and the towns around it. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 225 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 225 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
House for rent
(225) 555-0136
Forwarding
Used boat
(225) 555-0172
Texts only
Roofing quote
(225) 555-0109
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People ask for 225 when the search is in Baton Rouge, Denham Springs or Gonzales.
A used truck or a fishing boat for sale near Denham Springs brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 225 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
A moving job or a roofing quote in Gonzales ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 225 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 225 number is from.
Area code 225 took the Baton Rouge calling area when it was split from 504, as the numbering administrator put it, while the New Orleans area kept 504. It has never had a second code laid over it.
The administrator's 1998 list of exchanges for 225 includes Baton Rouge, Denham Springs, Gonzales, Plaquemine, Donaldsonville, New Roads, St. Francisville and Zachary.
Baton Rouge, LA
Area code 225 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
504
Split from
1998
225
This code
- Baton Rouge
- Denham Springs
- Gonzales
- Zachary
- Plaquemine
- Donaldsonville
- St. Francisville
- New Roads
- Clinton
- Livingston
- Greensburg
- Livonia
These are the facts about area code 225.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- In service since
- 1998
- Local calls are dialed with
- Seven digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Split from
- 504 (1947)
225 was split from 504 and entered service on August 17, 1998. Baton Rouge took the new code and New Orleans kept 504.
Using 225 became mandatory on April 5, 1999. Local calls inside 225 are dialed with seven digits, and calls to another area code take all ten.
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People ask these questions about getting a 225 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 225 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 Louisiana: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Baton Rouge can put a 225 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 225 area takes in Baton Rouge, Denham Springs, Gonzales, Zachary, Plaquemine and Donaldsonville.
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 21, 2026.
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