An apartment for rent in Greenville or Clemson draws calls from many strangers.
List it with an 864 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Ask for 864 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Greenville, Spartanburg and Anderson. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
List it with an 864 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Post an 864 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
Give each company its own 864 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
Area code 864 serves the northwestern part of South Carolina, including the larger cities of Greenville, Spartanburg and Anderson, as the numbering administrator puts it. The 821 code is laid over the same area.
The Public Service Commission lists Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Pickens, Oconee, Greenwood, Laurens, Cherokee, Union and Abbeville among the counties it serves. Columbia and Charleston use 803 and 843.
Greenville, Spartanburg and Anderson, SC
Area code 864 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
803
Split from
1995
864
This code
2024
821
Shares the area
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
864 was split from 803 and entered service on December 3, 1995. The Greenville area took the new code, and the rest of the state kept 803.
The Public Service Commission approved an overlay on September 27, 2022. Dialing all ten digits for local calls became mandatory on July 19, 2024, and 821 entered service on August 19, 2024.
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Create a number in your dashboard, type 864 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 South Carolina: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Greenville can put an 864 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 864 area takes in Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Greenwood, Greer and Seneca. 821 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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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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