An apartment for rent in Portland or Beaverton draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 971 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 971 numbers
Get a 971 phone number for Portland and Salem.
Ask for 971 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Portland and Salem. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 971 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 971 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
(971) 555-0124
Forwarding
Used bike
(971) 555-0163
Texts only
Roofing quote
(971) 555-0107
Blocked
People ask for 971 when the search is in Portland, Salem or Beaverton.
A used bike or camping gear sold on a marketplace near Salem brings texts all week.
Post a 971 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 Gresham or Oregon City ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 971 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 971 number is from.
Area code 971 is an overlay of 503, which the Oregon Public Utility Commission describes as serving the greater northwestern portion of the state, including Portland and Salem.
Eugene, Bend and the rest of the state outside the northwest use 541 and 458.
Portland and Salem, OR
Area code 971 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
503
Shares the area
2000
971
This code
- Portland
- Salem
- Gresham
- Hillsboro
- Beaverton
- Tigard
- Lake Oswego
- Oregon City
- McMinnville
- Woodburn
- Milwaukie
- Astoria
These are the facts about area code 971.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Portland and Salem, Oregon
- In service since
- 2000
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 503 (1947)
The Oregon Public Utility Commission chose an overlay in April 1999, so no one had to change a number. 971 entered service on October 1, 2000, and the 14 coastal rate centers around Astoria and Tillamook joined it on April 27, 2008.
Dialing all ten digits for local calls became mandatory on October 1, 2000, whether the number starts with 503 or 971.
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People ask these questions about getting a 971 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 971 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 Oregon: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Portland can put a 971 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 971 area takes in Portland, Salem, Gresham, Beaverton and Oregon City. 503 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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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-182, July 21, 1999
- NANPA planning letter PL-203, December 10, 1999
- NANPA planning letter PL-359, December 21, 2006
- Public Utility Commission of Oregon, Order 99-286 on the new area code for the 503 area, April 26, 1999
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