An apartment hunt in Santa Monica or Culver City means a dozen landlords.
Call every listing from one 424 number, and burn it the day you sign a lease.
Ask for 424 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Santa Monica, the beach cities and the rest of western Los Angeles County. Calls ring the phone you already carry.
Call every listing from one 424 number, and burn it the day you sign a lease.
Meet people from Malibu to Torrance with a 424 number that rings your phone, and end it if the conversation goes nowhere.
A 424 number on a flyer in Manhattan Beach or Redondo Beach reads as local. When the season ends, burn it.
Area code 424 covers the western part of Los Angeles County, the same area as 310.
The numbering administrator names Santa Monica, Malibu, Culver City, Beverly Hills, Inglewood, Hawthorne, Gardena, Carson, Compton, Torrance, Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, El Segundo and Avalon on Catalina Island. Los Angeles International Airport is in the area, and so are parts of Los Angeles, Long Beach and West Hollywood.
Western Los Angeles County, CA
Area code 424 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1991
310
Shares the area
2006
424
This code
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
310 was split from 213 in 1991, and 562 was split from 310 in 1997. The California Public Utilities Commission then approved 424 as an overlay on August 25, 2005, the first overlay in the state.
Dialing 1 plus all ten digits became mandatory for local calls on July 26, 2006, and 424 entered service on August 26, 2006. Numbers with 310 and 424 reach the same places.
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Create a number in your dashboard, type 424 as the area code and give it a name, such as Apartment hunt. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in Los Angeles County: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A yoga teacher, a surf coach or a dog groomer can put a 424 number on the website and the booking form, take the calls on their own phone and burn the number when the season ends.
Yes. 310 and 424 cover the same area. 310 dates from 1991 and 424 was added over it in 2006.
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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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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