An apartment for rent in Appleton or Oshkosh draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 920 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 920 numbers
Get a 920 phone number for Green Bay and Appleton.
Ask for 920 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Green Bay, Appleton and the rest of northeastern Wisconsin. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 920 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 920 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
(920) 555-0127
Forwarding
Used snowmobile
(920) 555-0163
Texts only
Roofing quote
(920) 555-0102
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People ask for 920 when the search is in Green Bay, Appleton or Oshkosh.
A used boat or a snowmobile sold on a marketplace near Sturgeon Bay brings texts all week.
Post a 920 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the listing.
A moving job or a roofing quote in Green Bay or Sheboygan ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 920 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 920 number is from.
Area code 920 covers most of the northeastern portion of Wisconsin, with communities such as Appleton, Beaver Dam, Berlin, Fond du Lac, Fort Atkinson, Green Bay, Manitowoc, Oshkosh, Ripon, Sheboygan, Sturgeon Bay and Watertown, as the numbering administrator puts it.
The Public Service Commission describes it as covering Door County and much of the Fox River Valley. The 274 code is laid over the same area, and Milwaukee kept 414.
Green Bay, Appleton and northeastern Wisconsin, WI
Area code 920 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
414
Split from
1997
920
This code
2023
274
Shares the area
- Green Bay
- Appleton
- Oshkosh
- Sheboygan
- Fond du Lac
- Manitowoc
- Watertown
- Beaver Dam
- Fort Atkinson
- Sturgeon Bay
- Ripon
- Berlin
These are the facts about area code 920.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Green Bay, Appleton and northeastern Wisconsin, Wisconsin
- In service since
- 1997
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 274 (2023)
- Split from
- 414 (1947)
920 was split from 414 and entered service on July 26, 1997. Milwaukee and the communities south of it kept 414, and the exchanges in the north took the new code.
Dialing all ten digits for local calls became mandatory on October 24, 2021, and 274 entered service on May 5, 2023.
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People ask these questions about getting a 920 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 920 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 Wisconsin: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Green Bay can put a 920 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 920 area takes in Green Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh, Sheboygan, Fond du Lac and Manitowoc. 274 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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