A job search around Norfolk and Newport News leaves your number with many employers.
Put a 948 number on your resume, take the calls on your own phone and block it when the search is over.
Local 948 numbers
Get a 948 phone number for Norfolk and Virginia Beach.
Ask for 948 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as the southeast corner of Virginia, from Norfolk to Williamsburg. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 948 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 948 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
(948) 555-0133
Forwarding
Paddleboard
(948) 555-0176
Texts only
Guest room
(948) 555-0108
Forwarding
People ask for 948 when the search is around Norfolk or Virginia Beach.
A paddleboard or a bike for sale in Hampton brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 948 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and burn the number at the handover.
A guest room listing in Williamsburg draws calls from travelers you have never met.
List it with a 948 number, keep your own number private and end it when you stop hosting.
This is where a 948 number is from.
Area code 948 is an all-services overlay of 757, so it covers the same area: the Eastern Shore and the southeast corner of Virginia.
The numbering administrator names Williamsburg, Newport News and Hampton on the Lower Peninsula, and Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach and Chesapeake in South Hampton Roads. Its rate center list adds Suffolk, Smithfield, Franklin, Chincoteague and Onancock.
Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Newport News, VA
Area code 948 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1996
757
Shares the area
2022
948
This code
- Virginia Beach
- Norfolk
- Chesapeake
- Newport News
- Hampton
- Portsmouth
- Suffolk
- Williamsburg
- Smithfield
- Franklin
- Chincoteague
- Onancock
These are the facts about area code 948.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 22, 2026.
- Place
- Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Newport News, Virginia
- In service since
- 2022
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 757 (1996)
The Virginia State Corporation Commission approved the overlay on February 5, 2020, so no one had to change a number.
Permissive ten-digit dialing began on September 11, 2021, ten digits became mandatory on April 9, 2022, and 948 entered service on May 9, 2022.
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People ask these questions about getting a 948 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 948 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 Virginia: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A detailer, a dog sitter or a handyman in Chesapeake can put a 948 number on the card and the website, take the calls on their own phone and burn the number when the job is done.
Yes. The 948 area takes in Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Newport News, Hampton and Williamsburg, and it shares the area with 757.
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-546, August 20, 2020
- Virginia State Corporation Commission, order on area code relief in Case PUR-2019-00059, February 5, 2020 (Annual Report for 2020)
- Virginia State Corporation Commission, area code relief measures
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