A beach rental or a boat slip near Myrtle Beach or Hilton Head draws calls from many strangers.
List it with an 854 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the season is booked.
Local 854 numbers
Get an 854 phone number for Charleston, Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head.
Ask for 854 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as the South Carolina coast, from Charleston to Myrtle Beach. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get an 854 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 854 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
Beach rental
(854) 555-0129
Forwarding
Used golf cart
(854) 555-0166
Texts only
Wedding quotes
(854) 555-0101
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People ask for 854 when the search is in Charleston, Myrtle Beach or Hilton Head.
A used kayak, a golf cart or a bike sold on a marketplace near Mount Pleasant brings texts all week.
Post an 854 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the listing.
A wedding booking or a catering order in Charleston or Beaufort ends in follow-up calls.
Give each vendor its own 854 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where an 854 number is from.
Area code 854 is an all-services overlay of 843, so it covers the same coastal area. The numbering administrator says that area generally covers the Coastal Counties and principally serves Charleston, Hilton Head Island, Myrtle Beach and Florence.
Columbia uses 803 and 839, and Greenville uses 864 and 821.
Charleston, Myrtle Beach and the South Carolina coast, SC
Area code 854 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1998
843
Shares the area
2015
854
This code
- Charleston
- Myrtle Beach
- Hilton Head Island
- Florence
- Beaufort
- Mount Pleasant
- Summerville
- North Myrtle Beach
- Georgetown
- Bluffton
- Conway
- Hartsville
These are the facts about area code 854.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Charleston, Myrtle Beach and the South Carolina coast, South Carolina
- In service since
- 2015
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 843 (1998)
On December 13, 2013, the Public Service Commission of South Carolina approved the overlay in Order 2013-872, so no one had to change a number.
Ten-digit dialing became required for local calls on September 19, 2015, and 854 entered service on October 19, 2015.
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People ask these questions about getting an 854 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 854 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 in South Carolina: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A mover, a tutor or a baker in Charleston can put an 854 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 854 area takes in Charleston, Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head Island and Florence, and it shares the area with 843.
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-463, February 11, 2014
- NANPA planning letter PL-474, November 14, 2014
- Public Service Commission of South Carolina, order No. 2013-872 approving the 843 area code overlay, December 13, 2013
- Public Service Commission of South Carolina, order No. 2014-923 on ten-digit dialing in the 843 area code, October 31, 2014
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