A house for rent in Shreveport or Bossier City draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 318 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 318 numbers
Get a 318 phone number for Shreveport, Monroe and Alexandria.
Ask for 318 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as northern Louisiana, from Shreveport to Alexandria. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 318 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 318 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
House for rent
(318) 555-0125
Forwarding
Used boat
(318) 555-0163
Texts only
Roofing quote
(318) 555-0119
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People ask for 318 when the search is in Shreveport, Monroe or Alexandria.
A used truck or a boat for sale near Monroe brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 318 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 Alexandria ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 318 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 318 number is from.
Area code 318 covers the northern part of Louisiana, as the numbering administrator puts it, and 457 is laid over the same area. Cities in it include Shreveport, Bossier City, Monroe, Alexandria and Ruston.
The Louisiana Public Service Commission lists 30 parishes, from Caddo and Bossier to Ouachita and Rapides. Lafayette and Lake Charles use 337, and Baton Rouge uses 225.
Shreveport, Monroe and Alexandria, LA
Area code 318 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1957
318
This code
1999
337
Split off
2025
457
Shares the area
- Shreveport
- Bossier City
- Monroe
- Alexandria
- Ruston
- Natchitoches
- Minden
- Bastrop
- Benton
- Marksville
- Homer
- Winnfield
These are the facts about area code 318.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Shreveport, Monroe and Alexandria, Louisiana
- In service since
- 1957
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 457 (2025)
- Codes split from it
- 337 (1999)
318 has been in service since 1957. On October 11, 1999 the southern part was split off as 337, and Shreveport and the north kept 318.
The Public Service Commission approved an overlay in 2023. Dialing all ten digits for local calls became mandatory on August 25, 2025, and 457 was laid over 318, entering service on September 25, 2025.
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People ask these questions about getting a 318 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 318 as the area code and give it a name, such as House for rent. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in Louisiana: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Shreveport can put a 318 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 318 area takes in Shreveport, Bossier City, Monroe, Alexandria, Ruston and Natchitoches. 457 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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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-617, June 23, 2023
- NANPA planning letter PL-188, August 25, 1999
- Louisiana Public Service Commission, overlay area code relief for the 318 area code, May 9, 2023
- Louisiana Public Service Commission, ten-digit dialing coming to the 318 area code, February 18, 2025
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