An apartment for rent in Kansas City or Independence draws calls from many strangers.
List it with an 816 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 816 numbers
Get an 816 phone number for Kansas City, Missouri.
Ask for 816 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Kansas City, Missouri and the towns of northwestern Missouri. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get an 816 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 816 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
(816) 555-0128
Forwarding
Used truck
(816) 555-0165
Texts only
Roofing quote
(816) 555-0102
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People ask for 816 when the search is in Kansas City, Independence or St. Joseph.
A used truck or a pair of tickets sold on a marketplace near Lee's Summit brings texts all week.
Post an 816 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the listing.
A moving job or a roofing quote in St. Joseph or Liberty ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 816 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where an 816 number is from.
Area code 816 serves communities such as Kansas City, St. Joseph, Savannah, Richmond, Maysville, Odessa, Adrian, Holden, Lawson and Drexel, as the Missouri Public Service Commission puts it. The 975 code is laid over the same area.
The numbering administrator's letters add Blue Springs, Plattsburg, Fillmore and Harrisonville. Kansas City, Kansas is across the state line and uses 913.
Kansas City and northwestern Missouri, MO
Area code 816 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
816
This code
1997
660
Split off
2023
975
Shares the area
- Kansas City
- Independence
- Lee's Summit
- St. Joseph
- Blue Springs
- Liberty
- Raytown
- Belton
- Excelsior Springs
- Harrisonville
- Richmond
- Odessa
These are the facts about area code 816.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Kansas City and northwestern Missouri, Missouri
- In service since
- 1947
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 975 (2023)
- Codes split from it
- 660 (1997)
816 and 314 were Missouri's two original area codes. When 660 was split off on October 12, 1997, the Kansas City area and St. Joseph kept 816.
The Public Service Commission ordered an overlay in October 2000 that was put on hold for years, and 975 entered service on October 13, 2023. Ten-digit dialing for local calls replaced seven digits between October 2021 and July 2022.
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People ask these questions about getting an 816 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 816 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 Missouri: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Kansas City can put an 816 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 816 area takes in Kansas City, Independence, Lee's Summit, St. Joseph and Blue Springs. 975 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.
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