A casita or a room for rent in Santa Fe draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 505 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 505 numbers
Get a 505 phone number for Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
Ask for 505 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as northwest New Mexico, from Albuquerque to Santa Fe. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 505 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 505 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
Casita for rent
(505) 555-0125
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Truck for sale
(505) 555-0162
Texts only
Market stall
(505) 555-0198
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People ask for 505 when the search is in Albuquerque or Santa Fe.
A truck or a trailer for sale in Rio Rancho brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 505 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
A food cart or a market stall needs one number on the sign.
Print a 505 number on the card, take the orders on your own phone and end the number when the season is over.
This is where a 505 number is from.
Area code 505 covers the northwestern region of New Mexico.
The numbering administrator names Albuquerque, Bernalillo, Farmington, Gallup, Grants, Los Alamos, Rio Rancho and Santa Fe among the communities that kept 505. Las Cruces, Roswell and Taos moved to 575 in 2007.
Albuquerque and Santa Fe, NM
Area code 505 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
505
This code
2007
575
Split off
- Albuquerque
- Santa Fe
- Rio Rancho
- Farmington
- Gallup
- Los Alamos
- Grants
- Bernalillo
- Los Lunas
- Belen
These are the facts about area code 505.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico
- In service since
- 1947
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Codes split from it
- 575 (2007)
505 was the code for the whole state of New Mexico from 1947. On October 7, 2007 it was split, and the northwest kept 505 while the rest of the state took the new code, 575.
Ten-digit dialing became mandatory across New Mexico on October 24, 2021.
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People ask these questions about getting a 505 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 505 as the area code and give it a name, such as Casita for rent. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in New Mexico: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A mover, a tutor or a caterer in Albuquerque can put a 505 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 505 area takes in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Rio Rancho, Farmington, Gallup and Los Alamos.
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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