An apartment for rent near a campus in Hartford or Middletown draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 959 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 959 numbers
Get a 959 phone number for Hartford and most of Connecticut.
Ask for 959 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Hartford, New Britain, Norwich and the rest of Connecticut outside the southwest. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 959 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 959 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
(959) 555-0120
Forwarding
Used kayak
(959) 555-0163
Texts only
Painting quotes
(959) 555-0108
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People ask for 959 when the search is in Hartford, New Britain or Norwich.
A used car or a kayak sold on a marketplace near Bristol or Glastonbury brings texts all week.
Post a 959 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the listing.
A moving job or a painting quote in Southington or Torrington ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 959 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 959 number is from.
Area code 959 is an all-services overlay of 860, so it covers the same area, which the state's Office of Consumer Counsel describes as most of Connecticut except its southwest, where 203 and 475 are used.
The numbering administrator's rate center map for the two codes labels Hartford, New Britain, Bristol, Middletown, Torrington, Norwich and New London.
Hartford and most of Connecticut, CT
Area code 959 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1995
860
Shares the area
2014
959
This code
- Hartford
- New Britain
- Bristol
- Manchester
- Middletown
- Southington
- Enfield
- Norwich
- Torrington
- Glastonbury
- Farmington
- New London
These are the facts about area code 959.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Hartford and most of Connecticut, Connecticut
- In service since
- 2014
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 860 (1995)
The state utility regulator ordered the 959 overlay on September 22, 1999, to start when the numbers in 860 ran low. The regulator reopened the case in 2013, and 959 entered service on August 30, 2014.
Ten-digit dialing has been required across Connecticut since November 14, 2009, so the new code needed no separate dialing period.
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People ask these questions about getting a 959 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 959 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 Connecticut: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A mover, a tutor or a baker in Hartford can put a 959 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 959 area takes in Hartford, New Britain, Bristol, Norwich and New London, and it shares the area with 860. Stamford and New Haven use 203 and 475.
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-456, August 27, 2013
- NANPA planning letter PL-217, February 24, 2000
- Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control, final decision in docket 96-11-10, September 22, 1999
- Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, decision in docket 96-11-10RE07 on the 959 overlay, July 12, 2013
- Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel, bulletin on the 475 and 959 area codes
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