An apartment for rent in Charlottesville or Lynchburg draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 434 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 434 numbers
Get a 434 phone number for Lynchburg and Charlottesville.
Ask for 434 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Lynchburg, Charlottesville and Danville. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 434 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 434 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
(434) 555-0123
Forwarding
Used car
(434) 555-0166
Texts only
Roofing quote
(434) 555-0104
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People ask for 434 when the search is in Lynchburg, Charlottesville or Danville.
A used car or a pair of tickets sold on a marketplace near Danville brings texts all week.
Post a 434 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 Farmville or South Boston ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 434 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 434 number is from.
Area code 434 is the western section of the old 804 area, as the numbering administrator puts it, while the eastern section, including metropolitan Richmond, kept 804.
The administrator's map of the split marks Charlottesville, Lynchburg, Danville, South Boston, Farmville and Emporia, and its lists of exchanges also show South Hill, Blackstone, Altavista and Appomattox.
Lynchburg, Charlottesville and Danville, VA
Area code 434 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1973
804
Split from
2001
434
This code
- Lynchburg
- Charlottesville
- Danville
- South Boston
- Farmville
- Emporia
- South Hill
- Blackstone
- Altavista
- Appomattox
These are the facts about area code 434.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Lynchburg, Charlottesville and Danville, Virginia
- In service since
- 2001
- Local calls are dialed with
- Seven digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Split from
- 804 (1973)
434 was split from 804 and entered service on June 1, 2001. The State Corporation Commission approved the split on December 1, 2000, and using 434 became mandatory on January 15, 2002.
Local calls inside 434 are still dialed with seven digits, and calls to another area code take all ten.
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People ask these questions about getting a 434 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 434 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 Virginia: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Lynchburg can put a 434 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 434 area takes in Lynchburg, Charlottesville, Danville, South Boston, Farmville and Emporia.
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 and the state’s own pages. Read October 21, 2026.
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