An apartment for rent in Hartford or West Hartford draws calls from many strangers.
List it with an 860 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 860 numbers
Get an 860 phone number for Hartford and most of Connecticut.
Ask for 860 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Hartford and most of Connecticut. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get an 860 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 860 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
(860) 555-0138
Forwarding
Used boat
(860) 555-0165
Texts only
Roofing quote
(860) 555-0103
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People ask for 860 when the search is in Hartford, New Britain or Norwich.
A used car or a boat for sale near New London brings texts from buyers all week.
Post an 860 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 Manchester ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 860 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where an 860 number is from.
Area code 860 covers most of Connecticut except its southwest, as the Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel puts it. The 959 code is laid over the same area.
The numbering administrator's 1995 split letter moved Hartford, Middlesex, New London, Tolland and Windham counties to 860. Bridgeport, New Haven and Stamford stayed on 203.
Hartford and most of Connecticut, CT
Area code 860 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
203
Split from
1995
860
This code
2014
959
Shares the area
- Hartford
- West Hartford
- New Britain
- Bristol
- Manchester
- Middletown
- Norwich
- New London
- Southington
- Torrington
- Glastonbury
- Enfield
These are the facts about area code 860.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Hartford and most of Connecticut, Connecticut
- In service since
- 1995
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 959 (2014)
- Split from
- 203 (1947)
860 was split from 203 and entered service on August 28, 1995. Fairfield and New Haven counties kept 203, and use of 860 became mandatory on October 4, 1996.
Dialing all ten digits for local calls became mandatory statewide on November 14, 2009. 959 was laid over 860 and entered service on August 30, 2014.
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People ask these questions about getting an 860 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 860 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 Connecticut: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Hartford can put an 860 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 860 area takes in Hartford, New Britain, Bristol, Manchester, Middletown and Norwich. 959 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-456, August 27, 2013
- NANPA planning letter PL-388, April 14, 2009
- NANPA industry letter IL 95/04-002 on the split of the 203 area code, April 6, 1995
- Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel, bulletin on the 959 area code overlay, August 2013
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