A room or an apartment for rent near the Hudson draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 551 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 551 numbers
Get a 551 phone number for Jersey City and Bergen County.
Ask for 551 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as northeastern New Jersey, from Jersey City to Hackensack. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 551 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 551 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
(551) 555-0122
Forwarding
Used car
(551) 555-0168
Texts only
Catering order
(551) 555-0104
Blocked
People ask for 551 when the search is in Jersey City or Bergen County.
A used car for sale in Paramus or Teaneck brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 551 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
A moving job or a catering order in Hoboken ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 551 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 551 number is from.
Area code 551 is laid over the same northeastern New Jersey area as 201, the Hudson and Bergen county area, as the numbering administrator puts it.
The administrator's lists of exchanges show Jersey City, Hackensack, Bayonne, Union City, Hoboken, Teaneck, Paramus, Fort Lee, Englewood, Rutherford, Kearny and Fair Lawn. Newark and Paterson are in 973.
Hudson and Bergen counties, NJ
Area code 551 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
201
Shares the area
2001
551
This code
- Jersey City
- Hackensack
- Bayonne
- Union City
- Hoboken
- Teaneck
- Paramus
- Fort Lee
- Englewood
- Rutherford
- Kearny
- Fair Lawn
These are the facts about area code 551.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Hudson and Bergen counties, New Jersey
- In service since
- 2001
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 201 (1947)
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities approved the 551 overlay on March 19, 2001, so no one had to change a number. It entered service on December 29, 2001, over the area that already had 201.
Every local call has been dialed with all ten digits since December 1, 2001, whether the number starts with 551 or 201.
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People ask these questions about getting a 551 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 551 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 New Jersey: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Jersey City can put a 551 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 551 area takes in Jersey City, Hackensack, Bayonne, Hoboken, Teaneck and Paramus. 201 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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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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