An apartment for rent in Bloomington or Terre Haute draws calls from many strangers.
List it with an 812 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 812 numbers
Get an 812 phone number for Evansville and southern Indiana.
Ask for 812 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as southern Indiana, from Evansville to Bloomington. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get an 812 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 812 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
(812) 555-0139
Forwarding
Used pontoon boat
(812) 555-0163
Texts only
Roofing quote
(812) 555-0106
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People ask for 812 when the search is in Evansville, Bloomington or Terre Haute.
A used truck or a pontoon boat for sale near Evansville brings texts from buyers all week.
Post an 812 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 Columbus or Seymour ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 812 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where an 812 number is from.
Area code 812 covers the southern third of Indiana, serving Bloomington, Columbus, Evansville, New Albany and Terre Haute, as the numbering administrator puts it. The 930 code is laid over the same area.
Indianapolis is not in it and uses 317 and 463.
Southern Indiana, IN
Area code 812 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
812
This code
2015
930
Shares the area
- Evansville
- Bloomington
- Terre Haute
- Columbus
- New Albany
- Jeffersonville
- Vincennes
- Seymour
- Jasper
- Bedford
- Madison
- Greensburg
These are the facts about area code 812.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Southern Indiana, Indiana
- In service since
- 1947
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 930 (2015)
812 has served southern Indiana since 1947, and the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission noted in 2013 that it was the only area code in the state never to have been split.
The commission approved a 930 overlay on July 31, 2013. Dialing all ten digits for local calls became mandatory on February 7, 2015, and 930 entered service on March 7, 2015.
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People ask these questions about getting an 812 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 812 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 Indiana: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Evansville can put an 812 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 812 area takes in Evansville, Bloomington, Terre Haute, Columbus and New Albany. 930 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-470, October 24, 2014
- NANPA planning letter PL-457, September 3, 2013
- Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, order in cause 44233 on the 812 overlay, October 22, 2014
- Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, area code 930 implementation
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