An apartment for rent in Waukesha or Brookfield draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 262 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 262 numbers
Get a 262 phone number for Waukesha, Racine and Kenosha.
Ask for 262 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as the towns around Milwaukee, from Waukesha to Kenosha. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 262 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 262 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
(262) 555-0136
Forwarding
Used boat
(262) 555-0161
Texts only
Roofing quote
(262) 555-0118
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People ask for 262 when the search is in Waukesha, Racine or Kenosha.
A used car or a boat for sale near Racine brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 262 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 Kenosha ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 262 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 262 number is from.
Area code 262 serves the remaining portion of what was 414, once the city of Milwaukee and its mideastern neighbors kept the old code, as the numbering administrator puts it. It has never had a second code laid over it.
The administrator's 1999 rate center map shows Waukesha, Racine, Kenosha, West Bend, Menomonee Falls, Oconomowoc, Cedarburg and Lake Geneva, and the state Public Service Commission's map prints the same towns. Milwaukee itself stayed on 414.
Waukesha, Racine and Kenosha, WI
Area code 262 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
414
Split from
1999
262
This code
- Waukesha
- Racine
- Kenosha
- Brookfield
- New Berlin
- West Bend
- Menomonee Falls
- Mequon
- Germantown
- Oconomowoc
- Cedarburg
- Lake Geneva
These are the facts about area code 262.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Waukesha, Racine and Kenosha, Wisconsin
- In service since
- 1999
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Split from
- 414 (1947)
262 was split from 414 and entered service on September 25, 1999. Milwaukee kept 414, and the area around it took the new code.
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 262 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 262 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 Wisconsin: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Waukesha can put a 262 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 262 area takes in Waukesha, Racine, Kenosha, West Bend, Menomonee Falls and Oconomowoc.
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.
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