An apartment for rent in Sacramento or Roseville draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 279 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 279 numbers
Get a 279 phone number for Sacramento and Roseville.
Ask for 279 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Sacramento, Roseville, Elk Grove and the towns around them. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 279 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 279 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
(279) 555-0128
Forwarding
Used bike
(279) 555-0161
Texts only
Roofing quote
(279) 555-0106
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People ask for 279 when the search is in Sacramento, Roseville or Elk Grove.
A used bike or a table sold on a marketplace near Folsom or Elk Grove brings texts all week.
Post a 279 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the listing.
A moving job or a roofing quote in Rocklin or Citrus Heights ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 279 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 279 number is from.
Area code 279 is an all-services overlay of 916, so it covers the same greater Sacramento area, and the California Public Utilities Commission names Sacramento, Roseville, Elk Grove, Folsom, Citrus Heights, Rancho Cordova and West Sacramento among its cities.
The areas around it have their own codes, 530 to the north and east and 707 to the west.
Sacramento, CA
Area code 279 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
916
Shares the area
2018
279
This code
- Sacramento
- Roseville
- Elk Grove
- Folsom
- Citrus Heights
- Rancho Cordova
- West Sacramento
- Rocklin
- Lincoln
- Loomis
- Isleton
These are the facts about area code 279.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Sacramento, California
- In service since
- 2018
- Local calls are dialed with
- 1 plus ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 916 (1947)
The California Public Utilities Commission approved the 279 overlay on February 9, 2017, so no one had to change a number. It entered service on March 10, 2018, over the area that already had 916.
Every local call has been dialed as 1 plus the area code and seven digits since February 10, 2018, whether the number starts with 279 or 916.
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People ask these questions about getting a 279 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 279 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 California: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Sacramento can put a 279 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 279 area takes in Sacramento, Roseville, Elk Grove, Folsom and Citrus Heights. 916 numbers cover the same area.
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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