An apartment for rent in Cherry Hill or Camden draws calls from many strangers.
List it with an 856 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 856 numbers
Get an 856 phone number for Camden and Cherry Hill.
Ask for 856 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Camden, Cherry Hill and southwestern New Jersey. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get an 856 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 856 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
(856) 555-0129
Forwarding
Used car
(856) 555-0161
Texts only
Roofing quote
(856) 555-0103
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People ask for 856 when the search is in Camden, Cherry Hill or Vineland.
A used car or a pair of tickets sold on a marketplace near Moorestown brings texts all week.
Post an 856 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 Vineland or Moorestown ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 856 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where an 856 number is from.
Area code 856 serves the southwestern portion of the old 609 area, as the numbering administrator puts it, while 609 kept the eastern portion.
The administrator's New Jersey map labels Cherry Hill and Vineland, and its 1999 map of exchanges shows Camden, Moorestown, Haddonfield, Collingswood, Woodbury, Glassboro, Williamstown, Bridgeton, Millville and Salem. Philadelphia is across the river in Pennsylvania and uses 215.
Camden and southwestern New Jersey, NJ
Area code 856 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1957
609
Split from
1999
856
This code
- Camden
- Cherry Hill
- Vineland
- Millville
- Bridgeton
- Moorestown
- Glassboro
- Woodbury
- Salem
- Haddonfield
- Collingswood
- Williamstown
These are the facts about area code 856.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Camden and southwestern New Jersey, New Jersey
- In service since
- 1999
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Split from
- 609 (1957)
856 was split from 609 and entered service on June 12, 1999. Using 856 became mandatory on November 13, 1999.
Dialing all ten digits for local calls became mandatory on October 24, 2021, and carriers had until July 2022 to finish enforcing it.
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People ask these questions about getting an 856 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 856 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 New Jersey: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Camden can put an 856 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 856 area takes in Camden, Cherry Hill, Vineland, Millville, Bridgeton and Glassboro.
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-173, May 5, 1999
- NANPA planning letter PL-556, January 8, 2021
- New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, news release on ten-digit dialing in the 856 and 908 area codes, October 20, 2021
- North American Numbering Plan Administrator, New Jersey area code map
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