An apartment for rent in Rochester draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 585 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 585 numbers
Get a 585 phone number for Rochester, New York.
Ask for 585 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Rochester 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 585 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 585 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
(585) 555-0128
Forwarding
Used car
(585) 555-0162
Texts only
Roofing quote
(585) 555-0106
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People ask for 585 when the search is in Rochester, Webster or Canandaigua.
A used car or a pair of tickets sold on a marketplace near Henrietta brings texts all week.
Post a 585 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 Webster or Fairport ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 585 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 585 number is from.
Area code 585 is the code for Rochester and eight surrounding counties in Western New York, as the Public Service Commission puts it. The numbering administrator names communities such as Rochester, Geneseo and Albion.
Its 2001 lists of exchanges also show Batavia, Webster, Fairport, Henrietta, Canandaigua, Victor, Brockport, Dansville and Wellsville. Buffalo uses 716.
Rochester and western New York, NY
Area code 585 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
716
Split from
2001
585
This code
- Rochester
- Batavia
- Webster
- Fairport
- Henrietta
- Canandaigua
- Geneseo
- Albion
- Victor
- Brockport
- Dansville
- Wellsville
These are the facts about area code 585.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Rochester and western New York, New York
- In service since
- 2001
- Local calls are dialed with
- Seven digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Split from
- 716 (1947)
585 was split from 716 and entered service on November 15, 2001. Erie, Niagara, Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties kept 716, and the Rochester area took the new code.
In 2023 the Public Service Commission called 585 the lone area code in the state without mandatory ten-digit dialing, and local calls inside 585 are still dialed with seven digits.
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People ask these questions about getting a 585 number.
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Create a number in your dashboard, type 585 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 York: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Rochester can put a 585 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 585 area takes in Rochester, Batavia, Webster, Fairport, Henrietta and Canandaigua.
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-270, April 17, 2001
- New York State Public Service Commission, opinion and order 00-06 on the 716 area code split, May 22, 2000
- New York State Public Service Commission, order granting clarification on area code dialing, June 27, 2023
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