A room for rent near a campus in Scranton or Wilkes-Barre draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 272 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 272 numbers
Get a 272 phone number for Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and Williamsport.
Ask for 272 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as northeastern Pennsylvania, from Scranton and Wilkes-Barre to Williamsport. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 272 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 272 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
(272) 555-0124
Forwarding
Snowmobile for sale
(272) 555-0167
Texts only
Roofing quotes
(272) 555-0103
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People ask for 272 when the search is in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre or Williamsport.
A used truck or a snowmobile for sale near Williamsport or Hazleton draws buyers all season.
Post a 272 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
A roofing quote or a moving job in Stroudsburg or Pottsville ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 272 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 272 number is from.
Area code 272 is an all-services overlay of 570, so it covers the same northeastern part of Pennsylvania. The numbering administrator says the area serves communities such as Scranton, Williamsport and Wilkes-Barre.
The commission's hearings on the plan were held in Wilkes-Barre, Jim Thorpe, Williamsport, Scranton and Lock Haven. Harrisburg and Lancaster use 717.
Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and Williamsport, PA
Area code 272 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1998
570
Shares the area
2013
272
This code
- Scranton
- Wilkes-Barre
- Hazleton
- Williamsport
- Pottsville
- Bloomsburg
- Kingston
- Sunbury
- Stroudsburg
- Lock Haven
- Pittston
- Jim Thorpe
These are the facts about area code 272.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and Williamsport, Pennsylvania
- In service since
- 2013
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 570 (1998)
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission voted on July 15, 2010 to approve an overlay for the 570 area, and its order in docket P-2009-2117193 was entered on July 19, 2010. No one had to change a number.
Permissive ten-digit dialing began on March 21, 2013, mandatory ten-digit dialing on September 21, 2013, and 272 entered service on October 21, 2013.
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People ask these questions about getting a 272 number.
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Create a number in your dashboard, type 272 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 Scranton can put a 272 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 272 area takes in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton, Williamsport and Stroudsburg, and it shares the area with 570.
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-451, April 2, 2013
- NANPA planning letter PL-409, August 24, 2010
- Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, ten-digit dialing begins in the 570 area code, March 28, 2013
- Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission order in docket P-2009-2117193, Pennsylvania Bulletin, December 22, 2012
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