A job search around Pittsburgh leaves your number with many employers and recruiters.
Put an 878 number on your resume, take the calls on your own phone and block it when the search is over.
Local 878 numbers
Get an 878 phone number for Pittsburgh and the towns around it.
Ask for 878 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Pittsburgh and the communities around it. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get an 878 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 878 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
Job search
(878) 555-0127
Forwarding
Plowing flyer
(878) 555-0158
Texts only
Party vendor
(878) 555-0102
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People ask for 878 when the search is in Pittsburgh, Greensburg or Washington.
A snow plowing or hauling side job in Butler or Washington gets calls from neighbors who saw a flyer.
Print an 878 number on the flyer, keep your own number private and burn it when the season ends.
A wedding or a graduation party in Greensburg ends in calls from many vendors.
Give each vendor its own 878 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where an 878 number is from.
Area code 878 is an all-services overlay of both 412 and 724, so it covers the area of the two together: Pittsburgh and its surrounding area, as the Public Utility Commission puts it.
The Commission's map and the numbering administrator's rate center lists show Pittsburgh, Greensburg, Washington, Butler, New Castle, Uniontown, Beaver Falls, New Kensington, Indiana, Aliquippa, Sharon and Waynesburg.
Pittsburgh and its surrounding area, PA
Area code 878 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
412
Shares the area
1998
724
Shares the area
2001
878
This code
- Pittsburgh
- Greensburg
- Washington
- Butler
- New Castle
- Uniontown
- Beaver Falls
- New Kensington
- Indiana
- Aliquippa
- Sharon
- Waynesburg
These are the facts about area code 878.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 22, 2026.
- Place
- Pittsburgh and its surrounding area, Pennsylvania
- In service since
- 2001
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 412 (1947) and 724 (1998)
In March 2000 the numbering administrator announced 878 as an all-services overlay of both 412 and 724, so no one had to change a number.
Dialing all ten digits for local calls became mandatory on July 12, 2001, and the administrator lists 878 in service from August 17, 2001.
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People ask these questions about getting an 878 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 878 as the area code and give it a name, such as Job search. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in Pennsylvania: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A photographer, a tutor or a cleaner in Pittsburgh can put an 878 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 878 area takes in Pittsburgh, Greensburg, Washington, Butler, New Castle and Uniontown, and it shares the area with 412 and 724.
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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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 22, 2026.
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