An apartment for rent in Sioux Falls or Brookings draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 605 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 605 numbers
Get a 605 phone number for Sioux Falls and Rapid City.
Ask for 605 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Sioux Falls, Rapid City and the rest of South Dakota. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 605 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 605 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
(605) 555-0122
Forwarding
Used hunting gear
(605) 555-0164
Texts only
Snow removal quote
(605) 555-0107
Blocked
People ask for 605 when the search is in Sioux Falls, Rapid City or Aberdeen.
A used truck or hunting gear for sale near Rapid City or Spearfish brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 605 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
A moving job or a snow removal quote in Aberdeen or Watertown ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 605 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 605 number is from.
Area code 605 covers all of South Dakota, and the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission describes it as the area code throughout the state.
The numbering administrator's code records show the most numbers in Sioux Falls and Rapid City, and no other area code is used in the state.
Sioux Falls, Rapid City and all of South Dakota, SD
Area code 605 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
605
This code
- Sioux Falls
- Rapid City
- Aberdeen
- Brookings
- Watertown
- Yankton
- Mitchell
- Huron
- Spearfish
- Pierre
- Vermillion
- Sturgis
These are the facts about area code 605.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Sioux Falls, Rapid City and all of South Dakota, South Dakota
- In service since
- 1947
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
605 has been in service since 1947. It has never been split or overlaid.
Dialing all ten digits for local calls started to become mandatory on October 24, 2021, with every provider finished by July 15, 2022, when 605 was one of the codes that moved for the 988 hotline.
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People ask these questions about getting a 605 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 605 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 South Dakota: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Sioux Falls can put a 605 number on the flyer and the website, take the calls on their own phone and burn the number when the job is done.
Yes. 605 is the only area code in South Dakota, so it covers Sioux Falls, Rapid City, Aberdeen and every other town in the state.
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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