An apartment for rent in Grand Rapids or Holland draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 616 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 616 numbers
Get a 616 phone number for Grand Rapids.
Ask for 616 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Grand Rapids and the towns around it. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
$0 todayLive in about a minute
This is how you get a 616 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 616 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.
9:41
Your numbers
Apartment for rent
(616) 555-0129
Forwarding
Used boat
(616) 555-0162
Texts only
Roofing quote
(616) 555-0104
Blocked
People ask for 616 when the search is in Grand Rapids, Holland or Grand Haven.
A used car or a boat sold on a marketplace near Grand Haven brings texts all week.
Post a 616 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 Zeeland or Hudsonville ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 616 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 616 number is from.
Area code 616 serves the Grand Rapids area, including the Cedar Springs and Greenville rate centers, as the Michigan Public Service Commission puts it. It has never had a second code laid over it.
The numbering administrator's 2001 map labels Grand Rapids, Holland, Grand Haven, Zeeland, Hudsonville, Ionia, Rockford and Lowell. Kalamazoo and Battle Creek use 269, and Traverse City and Muskegon use 231.
Grand Rapids, MI
Area code 616 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
616
This code
1999
231
Split off
2002
269
Split off
- Grand Rapids
- Holland
- Grand Haven
- Zeeland
- Hudsonville
- Ionia
- Greenville
- Rockford
- Lowell
- Cedar Springs
- Belding
- Byron Center
These are the facts about area code 616.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Grand Rapids, Michigan
- In service since
- 1947
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Codes split from it
- 231 (1999) and 269 (2002)
616 was split twice. The north took 231 on June 5, 1999, and the south took 269 on July 13, 2002. Grand Rapids kept 616 both times.
Dialing all ten digits for local calls became mandatory on October 24, 2021.
Try it free for 7 days.
Then pick the plan that fits how many numbers you hand out.
Basic
7 days free$9.99/mo
- 5 numbers, one for each site, store or dealer
- 100 forwarded minutes a month
- Burn a number in one tap
- Extra numbers $1 a month each
Pro
7 days free$29.99/mo
- 100 numbers
- 1,000 forwarded minutes a month
- A number per vendor, client or listing
- Extra numbers 50¢ a month each
$0 today. Monthly plans, cancel any time.
People ask these questions about getting a 616 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 616 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 Michigan: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Grand Rapids can put a 616 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 616 area takes in Grand Rapids, Holland, Grand Haven, Zeeland, Hudsonville and Ionia.
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.
You get 7 days free and pay $0 today. After 7 days your plan starts: $9.99 a month for Basic or $29.99 a month for Pro. Cancel before then and you pay nothing.
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-294, August 7, 2001
- NANPA planning letter PL-167, March 11, 1999
- NANPA planning letter PL-556, January 8, 2021
- Michigan Public Service Commission, opinion and order in case U-12850 on the 616 area code, June 5, 2001
Put 616 on a number you can burn.
Hand out a number you can burn. Keep the one your family calls.
Try it free for 7 days