An apartment near Baylor in Waco draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 254 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 254 numbers
Get a 254 phone number for Waco, Killeen and Temple.
Ask for 254 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Waco 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 254 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 254 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
Apartment for rent
(254) 555-0125
Forwarding
Used trailer
(254) 555-0161
Texts only
Roofing quote
(254) 555-0115
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People ask for 254 when the search is in Waco, Killeen or Temple.
A used truck or a trailer for sale in Killeen brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 254 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 Temple ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 254 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 254 number is from.
Area code 254 serves all or part of 23 counties in Texas, including the city of Waco, as the numbering administrator puts it. It has never had a second code laid over it.
The Public Utility Commission's exchange list for the 254 includes Waco, Killeen, Temple, Copperas Cove, Belton, Stephenville, Gatesville, Hillsboro, Mexia and Marlin. Fort Worth uses 817, Wichita Falls uses 940, and Austin uses 512 and 737.
Waco, Killeen and Temple, TX
Area code 254 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1953
817
Split from
1997
254
This code
- Waco
- Killeen
- Temple
- Copperas Cove
- Belton
- Stephenville
- Gatesville
- Hillsboro
- Mexia
- Marlin
- Glen Rose
- Salado
These are the facts about area code 254.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Waco, Killeen and Temple, Texas
- In service since
- 1997
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Split from
- 817 (1953)
254 was split from 817 and entered service on May 25, 1997, in a three-way split. Fort Worth and Arlington kept 817, the north took 940, and the south around Waco took 254.
Ten-digit dialing for local calls became mandatory in October 2021. No overlay has been added since.
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People ask these questions about getting a 254 number.
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Create a number in your dashboard, type 254 as the area code and give it a name, such as Apartment for rent. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in Texas: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Waco can put a 254 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 254 area takes in Waco, Killeen, Temple, Copperas Cove, Belton and Stephenville.
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-034, January 22, 1997
- NANPA planning letter PL-556, January 8, 2021
- Public Utility Commission of Texas, 254 area code exchange list
- Public Utility Commission of Texas, new dialing procedure becoming mandatory in the 254 and six other area codes, October 11, 2021
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