An apartment for rent in Buffalo or Cheektowaga draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 716 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 716 numbers
Get a 716 phone number for Buffalo and Niagara Falls.
Ask for 716 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Buffalo, Niagara Falls and western New York. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 716 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 716 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
(716) 555-0128
Forwarding
Used snowblower
(716) 555-0165
Texts only
Plowing quote
(716) 555-0101
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People ask for 716 when the search is in Buffalo, Niagara Falls or Jamestown.
A used truck or a snowblower for sale near Orchard Park brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 716 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
A snow plowing or roofing quote in Lockport ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 716 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 716 number is from.
Area code 716 serves all or portions of Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie and Niagara counties, including Buffalo, Jamestown, Cheektowaga, Tonawanda, Niagara Falls and West Seneca, as the New York Public Service Commission puts it.
The 624 code is laid over the same area. Rochester and Geneseo are on 585.
Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Jamestown, NY
Area code 716 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
716
This code
2001
585
Split off
2023
624
Shares the area
- Buffalo
- Niagara Falls
- Jamestown
- Cheektowaga
- Tonawanda
- West Seneca
- Lockport
- Orchard Park
- Lancaster
- Hamburg
- Dunkirk
- Grand Island
These are the facts about area code 716.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Jamestown, New York
- In service since
- 1947
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 624 (2023)
- Codes split from it
- 585 (2001)
716 is one of New York's original five area codes, in service since 1947. The eastern part of the old area was split off as 585 on November 15, 2001, and 716 stayed with Erie, Niagara, Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties.
Dialing all ten digits for local calls was required from July 16, 2022. The Public Service Commission approved a 624 overlay in October 2022, and 624 entered service on November 16, 2023.
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People ask these questions about getting a 716 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 716 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 New York: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Buffalo can put a 716 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 716 area takes in Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Jamestown, Cheektowaga, Tonawanda and West Seneca. 624 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-607, December 6, 2022
- NANPA planning letter PL-270, April 17, 2001
- New York Public Service Commission, order directing an overlay of the 716 area code, October 13, 2022
- New York Public Service Commission, press release on the new 624 area code, September 5, 2023
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