A room near a campus in Oxford draws calls from many students and parents.
List it with a 513 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 513 numbers
Get a 513 phone number for Cincinnati.
Ask for 513 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Cincinnati and the towns around it. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 513 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 513 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
(513) 555-0131
Forwarding
Spare tickets
(513) 555-0164
Texts only
Used car
(513) 555-0107
Texts only
People ask for 513 when the search is in Cincinnati.
Spare tickets for a game or a show bring a lot of texts.
Post a 513 number, set it to Texts only and end the number once the tickets are gone.
A used car for sale in Mason or West Chester draws buyers all week.
Put a 513 number on the ad, keep your own number off it and burn the number at the handover.
This is where a 513 number is from.
Area code 513 covers Cincinnati and the cities around it in southwestern Ohio.
The numbering administrator names Forest Park, Hamilton, Lebanon, West Chester, Mason, Maineville, Middletown, Norwood, Oxford, Harrison, Cleves, Miamitown and Trenton among them. A second code, 283, covers the same area.
Cincinnati, OH
Area code 513 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
513
This code
1996
937
Split off
2023
283
Shares the area
- Cincinnati
- Hamilton
- Middletown
- Mason
- West Chester
- Lebanon
- Oxford
- Forest Park
- Norwood
- Harrison
- Maineville
- Trenton
These are the facts about area code 513.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Cincinnati, Ohio
- In service since
- 1947
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 283 (2023)
- Codes split from it
- 937 (1996)
513 has been in service since 1947. In 1996 the rest of the old 513 area was split off as 937, and Cincinnati kept 513.
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved a second code, 283, as an overlay in December 2021, and 283 entered service on April 28, 2023. Ten-digit local dialing became mandatory on October 24, 2021.
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People ask these questions about getting a 513 number.
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Create a number in your dashboard, type 513 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 Ohio: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A mover, a tutor or a caterer in Hamilton can put a 513 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 513 area takes in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Middletown, Mason, West Chester and Lebanon. 283 numbers cover the same area.
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-579, February 11, 2022
- NANPA industry letter IL-96-06-011 on the 513 and 937 split, June 28, 1996
- Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, plan to overlay the 513 area code, December 15, 2021
- Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, ten-digit dialing to enable 988
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