An apartment near a campus in Durham or Chapel Hill draws calls from parents and students.
List it with a 919 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 919 numbers
Get a 919 phone number for Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill.
Ask for 919 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Raleigh, Durham and the rest of central North Carolina. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 919 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 919 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
Campus apartment
(919) 555-0121
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Job applications
(919) 555-0157
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Bike for sale
(919) 555-0186
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People ask for 919 when the search is around Raleigh and Durham.
A job hunt around Raleigh and Cary hands your number to dozens of recruiters.
Give employers a 919 number. When you take an offer, the other calls have nowhere to go.
A used bike or a couch for sale draws texts all week.
Post a 919 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
This is where a 919 number is from.
Area code 919 covers central North Carolina in and around Raleigh, including Durham and Chapel Hill.
The commission's map and the numbering administrator's rate center map name Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary, Apex, Wake Forest, Sanford, Fuquay-Varina, Clayton, Hillsborough and Goldsboro.
Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, NC
Area code 919 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1954
919
This code
1993
910
Split off
1998
252
Split off
2012
984
Shares the area
- Raleigh
- Durham
- Chapel Hill
- Cary
- Apex
- Wake Forest
- Garner
- Sanford
- Fuquay-Varina
- Clayton
- Hillsborough
- Goldsboro
These are the facts about area code 919.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- In service since
- 1954
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 984 (2012)
- Codes split from it
- 910 (1993) and 252 (1998)
919 has been in service since 1954. Two codes have been split from it: 910 in 1993 and 252 in 1998.
A second code, 984, was laid over the same area, and it entered service on April 30, 2012. Ten-digit local dialing became mandatory on March 31, 2012.
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People ask these questions about getting a 919 number.
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Create a number in your dashboard, type 919 as the area code and give it a name, such as Campus apartment. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in North Carolina: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A tutor, a mover or a caterer in Cary can put a 919 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 919 area takes in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary and Apex. 984 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-422, June 23, 2011
- NANPA planning letter PL-112, February 27, 1998
- NANPA industry letter IL-92/11-024 on the 919 and 910 split, November 13, 1992
- North Carolina Public Staff and Utilities Commission, 919 and 984 area code map
- North Carolina Utilities Commission, report on telecommunications service, September 2011
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