An apartment for rent in Madison draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 608 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 608 numbers
Get a 608 phone number for Madison, Wisconsin.
Ask for 608 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Madison and southwestern Wisconsin. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 608 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 608 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
(608) 555-0124
Forwarding
Used bike
(608) 555-0167
Texts only
Roofing quote
(608) 555-0105
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People ask for 608 when the search is in Madison, La Crosse or Janesville.
A used bike or a pair of Badgers tickets sold on a marketplace near Sun Prairie brings texts all week.
Post a 608 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 La Crosse or Janesville ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 608 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 608 number is from.
Area code 608 serves the southwestern portion of Wisconsin, including the state capital of Madison, with communities such as Beloit, Janesville, La Crosse, Middleton, Monroe, Stoughton, Sun Prairie and Wisconsin Dells, as the numbering administrator puts it.
The Public Service Commission adds Platteville. The 353 code is laid over the same area, and Milwaukee uses 414.
Madison and southwestern Wisconsin, WI
Area code 608 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1955
608
This code
2023
353
Shares the area
- Madison
- Janesville
- La Crosse
- Sun Prairie
- Beloit
- Middleton
- Stoughton
- Platteville
- Monroe
- Wisconsin Dells
- Baraboo
- Sparta
These are the facts about area code 608.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Madison and southwestern Wisconsin, Wisconsin
- In service since
- 1955
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 353 (2023)
608 has served Madison and southwestern Wisconsin since 1955. The Public Service Commission approved a 353 overlay on September 16, 2022, so no one had to change a number.
Dialing all ten digits for local calls became mandatory on October 24, 2021, and 353 entered service on September 15, 2023.
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People ask these questions about getting a 608 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 608 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 Wisconsin: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Madison can put a 608 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 608 area takes in Madison, Janesville, La Crosse, Beloit, Sun Prairie and Middleton. 353 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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