A rental in Royal Oak or Ferndale draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 947 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 947 numbers
Get a 947 phone number for Oakland County.
Ask for 947 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Oakland County in southeastern Michigan, from Troy to Pontiac. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 947 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 947 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
Rental listing
(947) 555-0133
Forwarding
Spare tickets
(947) 555-0169
Texts only
Car for sale
(947) 555-0104
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People ask for 947 when the search is in Oakland County.
Spare tickets for a game or a show bring a lot of texts.
Post a 947 number, set it to Texts only and end the number once the tickets are gone.
A used car for sale in Troy or Novi draws buyers all week.
Put a 947 number on the ad, keep your own number off it and burn the number at the handover.
This is where a 947 number is from.
Area code 947 is an all-services overlay of 248, so it serves the same area: Oakland County, in southeastern Michigan, through 21 rate centers that approximate the county.
The numbering administrator names Birmingham, Farmington, Pontiac, Royal Oak and Troy among the communities it serves, and its city map adds Southfield, Farmington Hills, Novi, Ferndale, Madison Heights and Rochester.
Oakland County, Michigan, MI
Area code 947 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1997
248
Shares the area
2002
947
This code
- Troy
- Southfield
- Pontiac
- Royal Oak
- Birmingham
- Farmington Hills
- Novi
- West Bloomfield
- Ferndale
- Madison Heights
- Rochester
- Waterford
These are the facts about area code 947.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 22, 2026.
- Place
- Oakland County, Michigan, Michigan
- In service since
- 2002
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 248 (1997)
The Michigan Public Service Commission approved the overlay on April 17, 2001, in Case U-12721, so no one had to change a number.
Ten-digit dialing for local calls became mandatory on September 7, 2002, the date the commission set in its amendatory order of March 21, 2002, and NANPA lists 947 as in service from that day.
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People ask these questions about getting a 947 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 947 as the area code and give it a name, such as Rental listing. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in Michigan: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A mover, a tutor or a baker in Troy can put a 947 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 947 area is Oakland County, from Troy and Southfield to Pontiac and Royal Oak, and it shares the area with 248.
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 22, 2026.
- North American Numbering Plan Administrator, area code database
- NANPA planning letter PL-283, June 7, 2001
- NANPA planning letter PL-320, March 26, 2002
- Michigan Public Service Commission, opinion and order in Case U-12721 on the 248 area code overlay, April 17, 2001
- Michigan Public Service Commission, amendatory order in Case U-12721, March 21, 2002
- Michigan Public Service Commission, 248 and 947 area code rate center map
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