A job hunt hands your number to a long list of offices.
Applications for state, county and city jobs ask for a phone number. Give them a 916 number, and when you have the job the calls stop.
Local 916 numbers
Get a 916 phone number for Sacramento.
Ask for 916 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Sacramento. Calls ring the phone you already carry, and you burn the number when the search is over.
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This is how you get a 916 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 916 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
Room for rent
(916) 555-0127
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Job applications
(916) 555-0164
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Bike for sale
(916) 555-0149
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People ask for 916 when the search is around Sacramento.
A room for rent in Rancho Cordova or Folsom draws strangers.
Take the calls about the room on your own phone, and burn the number the day someone moves in.
A weekend sale of furniture or a bike brings a lot of texts.
Put a 916 number on the listing, set it to Texts only when you are done for the day and keep your own number out of it.
This is where a 916 number is from.
Area code 916 covers the greater Sacramento area, including the state capital.
It serves Sacramento, Citrus Heights, Elk Grove, Folsom, Rancho Cordova and Isleton in Sacramento County, Roseville, Rocklin, Lincoln and Loomis in Placer County, and West Sacramento in Yolo County. Small parts of El Dorado, Solano and Sutter counties are in it as well.
Sacramento, CA
Area code 916 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
916
This code
1997
530
Split off
2018
279
Shares the area
- Sacramento
- Roseville
- Elk Grove
- Folsom
- Citrus Heights
- Rancho Cordova
- West Sacramento
- Rocklin
- Lincoln
- Loomis
- Isleton
These are the facts about area code 916.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Sacramento, California
- In service since
- 1947
- Local calls are dialed with
- 1 plus ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 279 (2018)
- Codes split from it
- 530 (1997)
916 is one of the three original California codes of 1947. In 1997 the old area was split and a new code, 530, took the remaining part. Most of Sacramento County, including the capital, kept 916.
A second code, 279, was laid over the same area. The California Public Utilities Commission approved the overlay on February 9, 2017, and 279 entered service on March 10, 2018. Dialing 1 plus all ten digits became mandatory for local calls on February 10, 2018.
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People ask these questions about getting a 916 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 916 as the area code and give it a name, such as Room for rent. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in Sacramento: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A photographer, a handyman or a tutor in Roseville or Elk Grove can put a 916 number on the flyer and the website, take the calls on their own phone and burn the number at the end of the season.
Yes. The 916 area takes in Roseville, Elk Grove, Folsom, Citrus Heights, Rancho Cordova and West Sacramento as well as Sacramento. 279 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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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.
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