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Get an 805 phone number for Santa Barbara and Ventura.

Ask for 805 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Santa Barbara, Ventura and the coast up to San Luis Obispo. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.

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This is how you get an 805 number.

  1. Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
  2. Type 805 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 805 when the search is on the coast north of Los Angeles.

A vacation rental in Santa Barbara or Pismo Beach draws calls from far away.

Put an 805 number on the listing, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number when the summer is booked.

A wedding photographer or a florist in Ojai or Solvang needs a booking number.

Print an 805 number on the card and the booking page. When the season is over, set it to Texts only or burn it.

A used truck or a boat for sale brings buyers from three counties.

Post an 805 number with the photos, keep your own number out of it and end the number when the sale is done.

This is where an 805 number is from.

Area code 805 covers most of San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, with small parts of Monterey and Kern counties.

In San Luis Obispo County it serves San Luis Obispo, Paso Robles, Atascadero, Pismo Beach, Morro Bay, Arroyo Grande and Grover Beach. In Santa Barbara County it serves Santa Barbara, Goleta, Carpinteria, Santa Maria, Lompoc, Solvang and Buellton. In Ventura County it serves Oxnard, Ventura, Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, Camarillo, Moorpark, Santa Paula, Ojai, Fillmore and Port Hueneme.

  • Oxnard
  • Thousand Oaks
  • Simi Valley
  • Ventura
  • Santa Maria
  • Santa Barbara
  • Camarillo
  • San Luis Obispo
  • Lompoc
  • Moorpark
  • Goleta
  • Santa Paula

These are the facts about area code 805.

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

Place
Santa Barbara and Ventura, California
In service since
1957
Local calls are dialed with
1 plus ten digits
Shares its area with
820 (2018)
Split from
213 (1947)
Codes split from it
661 (1999)

805 was split from 213 in 1957. In 1999 the eastern part of the area was split off as 661, and the coast kept 805.

A second code, 820, was laid over the same area. The California Public Utilities Commission approved the overlay on May 25, 2017, dialing 1 plus all ten digits became mandatory on June 2, 2018, and 820 entered service on June 30, 2018.

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People ask these questions about getting an 805 number.

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Create a number in your dashboard, type 805 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 on the coast: calls ring the phone you already carry.

Yes, for taking calls and texts. A surf teacher, a caterer or a landscaper in Ventura or Santa Maria can put an 805 number on the van and the website, take the calls on their own phone and burn the number when the work dries up.

Yes. The 805 area takes in Oxnard, Ventura, Thousand Oaks, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria and San Luis Obispo. 820 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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