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Put a 512 number on the listing. It rings your phone, and you can end it on Monday.
Local 512 numbers
Get a 512 phone number for Austin.
Ask for 512 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Austin. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it once it has served its purpose.
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This is how you get a 512 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 512 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
Weekend rental
(512) 555-0161
Forwarding
Band bookings
(512) 555-0125
Texts only
Leasing office
(512) 555-0188
Blocked
People ask for 512 because it is the Austin code.
A band or a food truck takes bookings by phone.
Print a number that rings you and can be set to Texts only during a shift.
An apartment search fills in a form at every complex.
Give the leasing offices a number that stops existing when you sign.
This is where a 512 number is from.
Area code 512 covers the greater Austin area, across eight Texas counties that include Travis, Williamson, Hays and Bastrop.
Austin is the center. North of it are Round Rock, Georgetown, Cedar Park, Leander, Pflugerville and Hutto. South are Buda, Kyle, San Marcos and Wimberley. Lakeway, Bee Cave and Dripping Springs are to the west, and Manor, Elgin and Bastrop to the east.
Austin, TX
Area code 512 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
512
This code
1992
210
Split off
1999
361
Split off
2013
737
Shares the area
- Austin
- Round Rock
- Georgetown
- Cedar Park
- Pflugerville
- Leander
- San Marcos
- Kyle
- Buda
- Lakeway
- Bastrop
- Dripping Springs
These are the facts about area code 512.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 13, 2026.
- Place
- Austin, Texas
- In service since
- 1947
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 737 (2013)
- Codes split from it
- 210 (1992) and 361 (1999)
512 is one of the original codes of 1947. 210 was split from it in 1992 and 361 in 1999.
A second code, 737, was laid over the Austin area and entered service on July 1, 2013. Both cover the same ground, and a local call is dialed with ten digits.
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People ask these questions about getting a 512 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 512 as the area code and give it a name, such as Band bookings. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in Austin: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A band or a food truck can put a 512 number on the poster and the booking page, take the calls on their own phone and set it to Texts only when they are off the clock.
No. Greater San Antonio uses 210, which was split from 512 in 1992. A 512 number reads as Austin and the towns around it, from Round Rock and Georgetown to San Marcos and Bastrop.
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. Read October 13, 2026.
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