A rental near the coast draws calls from strangers.
Put a 949 number on the listing for the place in Laguna Beach or Dana Point, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number when the stay is booked.
Local 949 numbers
Get a 949 phone number for south Orange County.
Ask for 949 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as south Orange County. Calls ring the phone in your pocket, texts land in your inbox, and you burn the number in one tap.
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This is how you get a 949 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 949 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
Beach rental
(949) 555-0138
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Recruiters
(949) 555-0172
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Moving quotes
(949) 555-0115
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People ask for 949 when the search is in south Orange County.
A job hunt in Irvine hands your number to a lot of recruiters.
Give applications a 949 number. When you have the job, the calls from the others have nowhere to go.
Quotes from movers and contractors keep calling for weeks.
Ask crews in Mission Viejo or Lake Forest for prices with a number you can end, and set it to Texts only for the ones who answer by message.
This is where a 949 number is from.
Area code 949 covers most of southern Orange County, California.
The planning letter that created it names Irvine, Newport Beach, Mission Viejo, Laguna Beach, Laguna Niguel, Laguna Hills, Lake Forest, Aliso Viejo, Dana Point, San Juan Capistrano and San Clemente. Part of Costa Mesa is in 949 too. The northern part of the old area, with Huntington Beach and most of Santa Ana and Tustin, kept 714.
South Orange County, CA
Area code 949 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1951
714
Split from
1998
949
This code
- Irvine
- Newport Beach
- Mission Viejo
- Laguna Beach
- San Clemente
- Lake Forest
- Laguna Niguel
- Dana Point
- San Juan Capistrano
- Aliso Viejo
- Laguna Hills
These are the facts about area code 949.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- South Orange County, California
- In service since
- 1998
- Local calls are dialed with
- 1 plus ten digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Split from
- 714 (1951)
949 entered service on April 18, 1998, when it was split from 714. 714 had itself been split from 213 in 1951.
No other code has been laid over 949, so it is the only code in its area. Calls inside the area could be dialed with seven digits until October 24, 2021, when ten-digit local dialing became mandatory. Today a local call is dialed as 1 plus all ten digits.
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People ask these questions about getting a 949 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 949 as the area code and give it a name, such as Beach rental. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in Orange County: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A surf instructor, a house cleaner or a wedding photographer in Newport Beach can put a 949 number on the website and the booking form, take the calls on their own phone and burn the number when the season ends.
Yes. The 949 area takes in Irvine, Newport Beach, Mission Viejo, Laguna Beach, Lake Forest, Dana Point and San Clemente, among others. Huntington Beach and most of Santa Ana kept 714.
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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