An apartment or a room for rent in Bellevue or Redmond draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 425 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 425 numbers
Get a 425 phone number for Bellevue, Kirkland and Everett.
Ask for 425 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as the suburbs of Seattle, from Everett to Renton. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 425 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 425 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
(425) 555-0140
Forwarding
Used bike
(425) 555-0162
Texts only
Landscaping quote
(425) 555-0108
Blocked
People ask for 425 when the search is in Bellevue, Kirkland or Everett.
A used car or a bike for sale in Kirkland brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 425 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
A moving job or a landscaping quote in Everett ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 425 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 425 number is from.
Area code 425 is one of the five area codes of western Washington. In the 1996 split it took Everett, Renton and Maple Valley and the exchanges north and east of Lake Washington.
The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission's records place the Bellevue, Kirkland, Bothell, Issaquah, Renton, North Bend and Everett rate centers in the 425. Seattle uses 206, Tacoma uses 253, and Bellingham and Olympia use 360.
Bellevue, Everett and Renton, WA
Area code 425 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
206
Split from
1997
425
This code
- Bellevue
- Everett
- Kirkland
- Redmond
- Renton
- Bothell
- Issaquah
- Maple Valley
- Sammamish
- North Bend
- Duvall
- Fall City
These are the facts about area code 425.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Bellevue, Everett and Renton, Washington
- In service since
- 1997
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Split from
- 206 (1947)
425 was split from 206 and entered service on April 27, 1997, the same day as 253. Seattle and its islands kept 206, and Kent, Federal Way and Tacoma took 253.
No second code has been laid over 425. Local calls have been dialed with ten digits since July 29, 2017.
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People ask these questions about getting a 425 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 425 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 Washington: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A mover, a tutor or a baker in Bellevue can put a 425 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 425 area takes in Bellevue, Everett, Kirkland, Redmond, Renton and Bothell.
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-019, October 31, 1996
- NANPA planning letter PL-492, June 28, 2016
- Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission, area codes and numbering issues
- Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission, docket UT-130140 on the North Bend rate center in the 425 area code
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