An apartment for rent in Des Moines or Ames draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 515 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 515 numbers
Get a 515 phone number for Des Moines and Ames.
Ask for 515 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Des Moines, Ames and the towns around them. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 515 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 515 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
(515) 555-0121
Forwarding
Used farm trailer
(515) 555-0165
Texts only
Roofing quote
(515) 555-0108
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People ask for 515 when the search is in Des Moines, Ames or Ankeny.
A used truck or a farm trailer sold on a marketplace near Ankeny brings texts all week.
Post a 515 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 Waukee or Fort Dodge ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 515 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 515 number is from.
Area code 515 is the Des Moines and Ames code: when the old central Iowa area was split, the numbering administrator says, Des Moines and Ames stayed in 515.
Its 2000 lists of exchanges also show Ankeny, Altoona, Waukee, Fort Dodge, Indianola, Boone, Perry and Webster City. Mason City, Pella and Ottumwa moved to 641.
Des Moines and Ames, IA
Area code 515 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
515
This code
2000
641
Split off
- Des Moines
- Ankeny
- Ames
- Waukee
- Fort Dodge
- Altoona
- Indianola
- Boone
- Perry
- Webster City
These are the facts about area code 515.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Des Moines and Ames, Iowa
- In service since
- 1947
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Codes split from it
- 641 (2000)
515 has been in service since 1947. The Iowa Utility Board approved a geographic split on March 30, 2000, and 641 began on July 9, 2000.
Dialing all ten digits for local calls became mandatory on October 24, 2021.
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People ask these questions about getting a 515 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 515 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 Iowa: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Des Moines can put a 515 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 515 area takes in Des Moines, Ames, Ankeny, Waukee, Fort Dodge and Altoona.
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 21, 2026.
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