A beach condo or a room for rent near Biloxi or Gulfport draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 228 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 228 numbers
Get a 228 phone number for Biloxi, Gulfport and Pascagoula.
Ask for 228 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as the Mississippi coast, from Bay St. Louis to Pascagoula. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 228 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 228 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
Beach condo
(228) 555-0122
Forwarding
Used boat
(228) 555-0159
Texts only
Wedding quotes
(228) 555-0109
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People ask for 228 when the search is in Biloxi, Gulfport or Pascagoula.
A used boat or fishing gear for sale near Pascagoula or Ocean Springs draws buyers all season.
Post a 228 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
A wedding booking or a catering order in Bay St. Louis or Pass Christian ends in follow-up calls.
Give each vendor its own 228 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 228 number is from.
Area code 228 covers the southern coast of Mississippi, the part carved out of 601. The numbering administrator's list of communities names Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagoula, Ocean Springs, Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian and Moss Point, and the state commission calls the area southern Mississippi.
Jackson and Hattiesburg use 601 and 769, and north Mississippi uses 662 and 471.
Biloxi, Gulfport and Pascagoula, MS
Area code 228 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
601
Split from
1997
228
This code
- Biloxi
- Gulfport
- Pascagoula
- Ocean Springs
- Bay St. Louis
- Pass Christian
- Moss Point
- Pearlington
- Hurley
- Van Cleave
These are the facts about area code 228.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Biloxi, Gulfport and Pascagoula, Mississippi
- In service since
- 1997
- Local calls are dialed with
- Seven digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Split from
- 601 (1947)
The numbering administrator's letter of July 31, 1997 records that the Mississippi Public Service Commission approved the split. 228 entered service on September 15, 1997.
Callers could use either code for a year, and 228 became required on September 14, 1998. Local calls inside 228 are dialed with seven digits.
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People ask these questions about getting a 228 number.
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Create a number in your dashboard, type 228 as the area code and give it a name, such as Beach condo. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in Mississippi: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A mover, a tutor or a baker in Biloxi can put a 228 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 228 area takes in Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagoula, Ocean Springs and Bay St. Louis. Jackson uses 601 and 769.
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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