A summer rental near the beach draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 757 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number when the season is booked.
Local 757 numbers
Get a 757 phone number for Norfolk and Virginia Beach.
Ask for 757 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as the southeast corner of Virginia, from Norfolk to Williamsburg. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 757 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 757 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
Beach rental
(757) 555-0128
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Boat for sale
(757) 555-0167
Texts only
Apartment hunt
(757) 555-0194
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People ask for 757 when the search is around Norfolk or Virginia Beach.
A boat or a car for sale in Chesapeake brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 757 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
A move to a new city means a lot of calls from landlords.
Give each landlord a 757 number. When you sign a lease, the other calls have nowhere to go.
This is where a 757 number is from.
Area code 757 serves the Eastern Shore and the southeast corner of Virginia.
The numbering administrator names Williamsburg, Newport News and Hampton on the Lower Peninsula, and Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach and Chesapeake in South Hampton Roads. Its rate center list adds Suffolk, Smithfield, Franklin and Chincoteague.
Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Newport News, VA
Area code 757 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1973
804
Split from
1996
757
This code
2022
948
Shares the area
- Virginia Beach
- Norfolk
- Chesapeake
- Newport News
- Hampton
- Portsmouth
- Suffolk
- Williamsburg
- Poquoson
- Smithfield
- Franklin
- Chincoteague
These are the facts about area code 757.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Newport News, Virginia
- In service since
- 1996
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 948 (2022)
- Split from
- 804 (1973)
757 was split from 804 and entered service on July 1, 1996. Richmond, Lynchburg and Charlottesville kept 804.
The Virginia State Corporation Commission approved a second code, 948, on February 5, 2020, and it entered service on May 9, 2022 over the same area. Ten-digit local dialing became mandatory on April 9, 2022.
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People ask these questions about getting a 757 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 757 as the area code and give it a name, such as Beach rental. 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 charter captain, a detailer or a mover in Hampton can put a 757 number on the card and the website, take the calls on their own phone and burn the number when the job is done.
Yes. The 757 area takes in Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Newport News, Hampton and Williamsburg. 948 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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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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