An apartment for rent in Iowa City or Cedar Rapids draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 319 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 319 numbers
Get a 319 phone number for Cedar Rapids and Iowa City.
Ask for 319 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Waterloo. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 319 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 319 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
(319) 555-0125
Forwarding
Used furniture
(319) 555-0161
Texts only
Roofing quote
(319) 555-0108
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People ask for 319 when the search is in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City or Waterloo.
Used furniture or a bike sold on a marketplace near Waterloo brings texts all week.
Post a 319 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 Cedar Falls or Burlington ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 319 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 319 number is from.
Area code 319 is the Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Waterloo area, and the numbering administrator's code lists and map for it also name Cedar Falls, Burlington, Fort Madison, Keokuk and Mount Pleasant.
Davenport, Dubuque and the rest of the old area to the east moved to 563 in 2001.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Waterloo, IA
Area code 319 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
319
This code
2001
563
Split off
- Cedar Rapids
- Iowa City
- Waterloo
- Cedar Falls
- Burlington
- North Liberty
- Waverly
- Fort Madison
- Keokuk
- Mount Pleasant
- Washington
- Independence
These are the facts about area code 319.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Waterloo, Iowa
- In service since
- 1947
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Codes split from it
- 563 (2001)
319 has been in service since 1947. On March 25, 2001, the eastern part of the old area, including Davenport and Dubuque, split off as 563 under an Iowa Utilities Board decision of November 16, 2000.
Local calls inside 319 were dialed with seven digits until ten digits became mandatory on October 24, 2021, when 319 was one of the codes that moved for the 988 hotline.
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People ask these questions about getting a 319 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 319 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 Iowa: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Cedar Rapids can put a 319 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 319 area takes in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Burlington.
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. Read October 21, 2026.
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