An apartment for rent near a campus in Columbus draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 380 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 380 numbers
Get a 380 phone number for Columbus and central Ohio.
Ask for 380 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Columbus and the suburbs around it. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 380 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 380 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
(380) 555-0121
Forwarding
Used bike
(380) 555-0165
Texts only
Roofing quotes
(380) 555-0109
Blocked
People ask for 380 when the search is in Columbus, Dublin or Westerville.
A pair of tickets or a used bike for sale near Gahanna or Hilliard brings texts all week.
Post a 380 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the listing.
A roofing quote or a moving job in Dublin or Grove City ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 380 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 380 number is from.
Area code 380 is an all-services overlay of 614, so it covers the same central region of Ohio, the community of Columbus, as the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio puts it.
The numbering administrator's rate center map names Columbus, Dublin, Worthington, Westerville, New Albany, Gahanna, Hilliard, Reynoldsburg, Grove City, Groveport, Canal Winchester and West Jefferson.
Columbus and central Ohio, OH
Area code 380 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
614
Shares the area
2016
380
This code
- Columbus
- Dublin
- Grove City
- Reynoldsburg
- Hilliard
- Westerville
- Gahanna
- Worthington
- New Albany
- Canal Winchester
- West Jefferson
- Groveport
These are the facts about area code 380.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Columbus and central Ohio, Ohio
- In service since
- 2016
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 614 (1947)
The commission approved the overlay for the 614 area on June 27, 2001, suspended the first rollout on March 14, 2002, and on January 14, 2015 told the industry to carry it out.
380 entered service on February 27, 2016. Local calls have taken ten digits, with or without a 1 in front, since January 30, 2016, whether the number starts with 380 or 614.
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People ask these questions about getting a 380 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 380 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 Ohio: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A mover, a tutor or a baker in Columbus can put a 380 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 380 area takes in Columbus, Dublin, Westerville, Hilliard and Grove City. 614 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-477, February 20, 2015
- NANPA planning letter PL-317, March 25, 2002
- Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, changing area codes and what consumers should know
- Office of the Ohio Consumers' Counsel, Ohio area code update
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