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Get an 804 phone number for Richmond and central Virginia.

Ask for 804 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Richmond and the towns around it. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.

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This is how you get an 804 number.

  1. Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
  2. Type 804 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 804 when the search is in Richmond, Petersburg or Chesterfield.

An apartment for rent in Richmond or Henrico draws calls from many strangers.

List it with an 804 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.

A used car or a truck for sale near Mechanicsville brings texts from buyers all week.

Post an 804 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.

A moving job or a roofing quote in Midlothian ends in follow-up calls.

Give each company its own 804 number. Block the ones you did not choose.

This is where an 804 number is from.

Area code 804 serves the central portion of eastern Virginia, including Richmond, the state capital, as the numbering administrator puts it. The 686 code is laid over the same area.

The administrator names Ashland, Charles City, Chesterfield, Columbia, Hague, Henrico, New Kent, Petersburg, Reedville and Water View, and the State Corporation Commission adds the Northern Neck. Charlottesville and Lynchburg use 434, and Norfolk and Virginia Beach use 757.

  • Richmond
  • Chesterfield
  • Henrico
  • Petersburg
  • Ashland
  • Hopewell
  • Mechanicsville
  • Midlothian
  • Chester
  • Tappahannock
  • Kilmarnock
  • Gloucester

These are the facts about area code 804.

From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.

Place
Richmond and central Virginia, Virginia
In service since
1973
Local calls are dialed with
Ten digits
Shares its area with
686 (2024)
Codes split from it
757 (1996) and 434 (2001)

804 entered service in 1973. 757 was split from it on July 1, 1996, and 434 on June 1, 2001, which left 804 with the eastern section around Richmond.

Ten-digit dialing for local calls became mandatory in October 2021. The State Corporation Commission approved an overlay on November 16, 2022, and 686 was laid over 804, entering service on February 1, 2024.

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People ask these questions about getting an 804 number.

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Create a number in your dashboard, type 804 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 roofer, a tutor or a mover in Richmond can put an 804 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 804 area takes in Richmond, Chesterfield, Henrico, Petersburg, Ashland and Hopewell. 686 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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