A room or an apartment for rent in New Orleans draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 504 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 504 numbers
Get a 504 phone number for New Orleans.
Ask for 504 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as New Orleans. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 504 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 504 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
Room for rent
(504) 555-0131
Forwarding
Used boat
(504) 555-0176
Texts only
Catering quote
(504) 555-0104
Blocked
People ask for 504 because it is the New Orleans code.
A used car or a boat for sale in Kenner brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 504 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
A wedding or a catering job in New Orleans ends in follow-up calls.
Give each vendor its own 504 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 504 number is from.
Area code 504 covers the basic New Orleans local calling area, as the numbering administrator calls it, and it is the only code there.
The numbering administrator's rate center maps name Kenner, Lafitte, Delacroix, Jesuit Bend, Lake Catherine, St. Bernard and Ycloskey along with New Orleans. Baton Rouge uses 225, and Slidell, Covington and Houma use 985.
New Orleans, LA
Area code 504 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
504
This code
1998
225
Split off
2001
985
Split off
- New Orleans
- Kenner
- Lafitte
- Delacroix
- Jesuit Bend
- Lake Catherine
- St. Bernard
- Ycloskey
These are the facts about area code 504.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- In service since
- 1947
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Codes split from it
- 225 (1998) and 985 (2001)
504 has been in service since 1947. It was split twice: Baton Rouge took 225 on August 17, 1998, and the area around New Orleans took 985 on February 12, 2001.
The Louisiana Public Service Commission approved the second split on June 21, 2000, and 504 kept the basic New Orleans calling area. Every local call has been dialed with ten digits since October 24, 2021.
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People ask these questions about getting a 504 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 504 as the area code and give it a name, such as Room for rent. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in Louisiana: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A caterer, a tutor or a mover in New Orleans can put a 504 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 504 area takes in New Orleans and Kenner, and the rate center maps name Lafitte, Delacroix and Jesuit Bend as well.
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.
You get 7 days free and pay $0 today. After 7 days your plan starts: $9.99 a month for Basic or $29.99 a month for Pro. Cancel before then and you pay nothing.
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-242, October 20, 2000
- NANPA planning letter PL-123, June 9, 1998
- NANPA planning letter PL-556, January 8, 2021
- Louisiana Division of Administration, notice on 10-digit dialing in the 504 and 337 area codes, February 16, 2022
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