A job search around Salt Lake City and Murray leaves your number with many employers.
Put an 801 number on your resume, take the calls on your own phone and block it when the search is over.
Local 801 numbers
Get an 801 phone number for Salt Lake City, Ogden and Provo.
Ask for 801 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Salt Lake City, Ogden and Provo. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get an 801 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 801 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
Job search
(801) 555-0136
Forwarding
Used snowboard
(801) 555-0173
Texts only
Wedding vendor
(801) 555-0104
Blocked
People ask for 801 when the search is in Salt Lake City, Provo or Ogden.
A used snowboard or a bike for sale in Ogden brings texts from buyers all week.
Post an 801 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and burn the number at the handover.
A wedding or a family photo booking in Provo or Lehi ends in calls from many vendors.
Give each vendor its own 801 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where an 801 number is from.
Area code 801 serves the greater Salt Lake City area, including cities and communities such as American Fork, Bountiful, Kaysville, Morgan, Ogden, Orem, Provo, Salt Lake City and Spanish Fork, as the numbering administrator puts it.
The map in the administrator's overlay letter also labels Lehi, Murray, Midvale and Clearfield. The rest of Utah uses 435, and 385 is laid over 801.
Salt Lake City, Ogden and Provo, UT
Area code 801 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
801
This code
1997
435
Split off
2009
385
Shares the area
- Salt Lake City
- Provo
- Orem
- Ogden
- Lehi
- Murray
- Bountiful
- Midvale
- Kaysville
- Clearfield
- American Fork
- Spanish Fork
These are the facts about area code 801.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 22, 2026.
- Place
- Salt Lake City, Ogden and Provo, Utah
- In service since
- 1947
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 385 (2009)
- Codes split from it
- 435 (1997)
The numbering administrator's database shows 801 in service since 1947. On September 21, 1997 the area outside the Salt Lake City, Ogden and Provo metropolitan area was split off as 435.
The Public Service Commission of Utah approved a 385 overlay on July 12, 2007, so no one had to change a number. Dialing all ten digits for local calls became mandatory on March 1, 2009.
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People ask these questions about getting an 801 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 801 as the area code and give it a name, such as Job search. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in Utah: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A photographer, a tutor or a cleaner in Orem can put an 801 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 801 area takes in Salt Lake City, Provo, Orem, Ogden, Bountiful and American Fork, and it shares the area with 385.
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 22, 2026.
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