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Get a 704 phone number for Charlotte.

Ask for 704 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Charlotte. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it once you are finished with it.

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This is how you get a 704 number.

  1. Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
  2. Type 704 as the area code and give the number a name.
  3. Hand it out. Calls ring the phone you already carry, and texts land in your inbox.
  4. Burn it in one tap when you are done. Calls and texts to it stop at once.
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People ask for 704 because it is the Charlotte code.

A move to a new city starts with apartment forms.

Give every leasing office a 704 number. It rings the phone you already have, and it ends when you sign.

Race weekend tickets and parking want a phone number.

Use one you can burn on Monday.

A lawn or a deck company keeps calling back.

One number for each company, and no more calls from the ones you passed on.

This is where a 704 number is from.

Area code 704 covers Charlotte, North Carolina, and the Piedmont area that surrounds it.

Around the city its rate centers include Huntersville, Davidson, Mooresville and Statesville, Concord, Kannapolis and Salisbury, Monroe, Waxhaw, Indian Trail, Albemarle and Wadesboro, and Gastonia, Belmont, Lincolnton, Kings Mountain and Shelby.

  • Charlotte
  • Gastonia
  • Concord
  • Kannapolis
  • Salisbury
  • Mooresville
  • Huntersville
  • Monroe
  • Statesville
  • Shelby
  • Albemarle

These are the facts about area code 704.

From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 13, 2026.

Place
Charlotte, North Carolina
In service since
1947
Local calls are dialed with
Ten digits
Shares its area with
980 (2001)
Codes split from it
828 (1998)

704 is one of the original codes of 1947. 828 was split from it in 1998.

A second code, 980, was laid over the 704 area and entered service in 2001. Callers had from May 1, 2000 to get used to dialing ten digits for a local call before it became mandatory on January 24, 2001, and it still applies.

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People ask these questions about getting a 704 number.

More in the full FAQ.

Create a number in your dashboard, type 704 as the area code and give it a name, such as Leasing office. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in Charlotte: calls ring the phone you already carry.

Yes, for taking calls and texts. A deck builder or a lawn crew can put a 704 number on the truck and the yard sign, take the calls on their own phone and set it to Texts only in the winter.

Yes. 980 was laid over the 704 area in 2001, and both codes cover Charlotte and the Piedmont towns around it, such as Gastonia, Concord, Mooresville and Monroe.

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. Read October 13, 2026.

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