An apartment near a Metro stop in Arlington draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 703 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 703 numbers
Get a 703 phone number for Arlington, Alexandria and Fairfax.
Ask for 703 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Northern Virginia, the suburbs of Washington. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 703 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 703 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
(703) 555-0124
Forwarding
Used bike
(703) 555-0167
Texts only
Moving quote
(703) 555-0102
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People ask for 703 when the search is in Northern Virginia.
A used car or a bike for sale in Fairfax brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 703 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
A moving job or a catering order in Alexandria ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 703 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 703 number is from.
Area code 703 covers Northern Virginia, on exactly the same ground as 571. The numbering administrator names Arlington County and the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church and Manassas, and the towns of Herndon, Quantico, Vienna and Leesburg.
Its map of the area shows Loudoun, Fairfax, Arlington and Prince William counties. Fredericksburg, Warrenton and Stafford sit outside it and use 540. Washington itself uses 202.
Arlington, Alexandria and Fairfax, VA
Area code 703 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
703
This code
1995
540
Split off
2000
571
Shares the area
- Arlington
- Alexandria
- Fairfax
- Falls Church
- Vienna
- Herndon
- Leesburg
- Manassas
- McLean
- Dale City
- Dulles
- Quantico
These are the facts about area code 703.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Arlington, Alexandria and Fairfax, Virginia
- In service since
- 1947
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 571 (2000)
- Codes split from it
- 540 (1995)
703 is the original Virginia area code, in service since 1947. On July 15, 1995 most of the state was split off as 540, and 703 kept the Washington suburbs.
571 was laid over 703 and entered service on March 1, 2000. Local calls here are dialed with all ten digits.
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People ask these questions about getting a 703 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 703 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 Virginia: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A mover, a tutor or a baker in Alexandria can put a 703 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 703 area takes in Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Herndon and Manassas. 571 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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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-177, June 1, 1999
- NANPA industry letter IL-94/08-005 on the split of the 703 area code, August 9, 1994
- Virginia State Corporation Commission, area code relief measures
- Virginia State Corporation Commission, 1998 annual report with the order on area code relief for 703
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