An apartment for rent in St. Paul or Woodbury draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 651 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 651 numbers
Get a 651 phone number for St. Paul and its suburbs.
Ask for 651 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as St. Paul and its suburbs. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 651 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 651 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
(651) 555-0128
Forwarding
Used hockey gear
(651) 555-0166
Texts only
Snow removal quote
(651) 555-0101
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People ask for 651 when the search is in St. Paul, Woodbury or Eagan.
Used hockey gear or a bike sold on a marketplace near Eagan brings texts all week.
Post a 651 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the listing.
A snow removal or moving quote in Maplewood ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 651 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 651 number is from.
Area code 651 includes the City of St. Paul and its suburbs, as the numbering administrator describes the 1998 split of 612.
The same letter's code tables also list Stillwater, Hastings, Red Wing, Lake City and Wabasha, and Minneapolis keeps 612.
St. Paul and its suburbs, MN
Area code 651 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
612
Split from
1998
651
This code
- St. Paul
- Woodbury
- Eagan
- Cottage Grove
- Maplewood
- Shoreview
- White Bear Lake
- Hastings
- New Brighton
- West St. Paul
- Forest Lake
- Stillwater
These are the facts about area code 651.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- St. Paul and its suburbs, Minnesota
- In service since
- 1998
- Local calls are dialed with
- Seven digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Split from
- 612 (1947)
651 was split from 612 and entered service on July 12, 1998, when 612 and 651 both worked for St. Paul numbers. Using 651 became mandatory for most numbers on January 11, 1999.
A local call between two 651 numbers is dialed with seven digits, and a local call to another area code, such as 612, takes ten digits.
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People ask these questions about getting a 651 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 651 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 Minnesota: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in St. Paul can put a 651 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 651 area takes in St. Paul, Eagan, Maplewood, White Bear Lake and Stillwater.
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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