An apartment near the university in Tucson draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 520 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 520 numbers
Get a 520 phone number for Tucson and southern Arizona.
Ask for 520 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Tucson and southern Arizona. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 520 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 520 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
(520) 555-0130
Forwarding
Used truck
(520) 555-0164
Texts only
Roofing quote
(520) 555-0113
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People ask for 520 when the search is in Tucson or southern Arizona.
A used truck or a trailer for sale in Sierra Vista brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 520 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
A moving job or a roofing quote in Casa Grande ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 520 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 520 number is from.
Area code 520 covers southern Arizona. The Arizona Corporation Commission keeps the rate centers of Cochise, Pima, Pinal and Santa Cruz counties in the 520, and calls the area the greater Tucson calling area.
The rate areas named in the commission's order include Tucson, Sierra Vista, Nogales, Casa Grande, Douglas, Bisbee, Willcox, Benson, Eloy, Florence, Coolidge and Ajo. Phoenix uses 480, 602 and 623, and Flagstaff and Yuma use 928.
Tucson and southern Arizona, AZ
Area code 520 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
602
Split from
1995
520
This code
2001
928
Split off
- Tucson
- Sierra Vista
- Nogales
- Casa Grande
- Douglas
- Bisbee
- Willcox
- Benson
- Eloy
- Florence
- Coolidge
- Ajo
These are the facts about area code 520.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Tucson and southern Arizona, Arizona
- In service since
- 1995
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Split from
- 602 (1947)
- Codes split from it
- 928 (2001)
520 was split from 602 and entered service on March 19, 1995. Phoenix kept 602, and the rest of the state became 520.
On June 23, 2001 northern Arizona was split off as 928, and 520 kept the southern rate areas around Tucson. Ten-digit dialing for local calls became mandatory on October 24, 2021.
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People ask these questions about getting a 520 number.
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Create a number in your dashboard, type 520 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 Arizona: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Tucson can put a 520 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 520 area takes in Tucson, Sierra Vista, Nogales, Casa Grande, Douglas and Bisbee.
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 industry letter IL-94/01-030 on the split of the 602 area code, January 21, 1994
- NANPA planning letter PL-268, March 27, 2001
- Arizona Corporation Commission, Decision No. 63386 on the 520 area code split, February 16, 2001
- Arizona Corporation Commission, news release on the 520 area code, December 12, 2025
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