An apartment for rent in Newark or Montclair draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 973 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 973 numbers
Get a 973 phone number for Newark, Paterson and Morristown.
Ask for 973 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Newark and the towns around it. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 973 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 973 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
(973) 555-0126
Forwarding
Used car
(973) 555-0164
Texts only
Roofing quote
(973) 555-0113
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People ask for 973 when the search is in Newark, Paterson or Morristown.
A used car or a truck for sale near Paterson brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 973 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
A moving job or a roofing quote in Parsippany ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 973 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 973 number is from.
Area code 973 took everything in northern New Jersey outside Bergen and Hudson counties, which kept 201, when 201 was split in 1997, as the numbering administrator put it. 862 is laid over the same area.
The administrator's list of municipalities includes Newark, Paterson, Clifton, Passaic, East Orange, Irvington, Bloomfield, Montclair, West Orange, Wayne, Morristown and Parsippany-Troy Hills, in Essex, Passaic, Morris and Sussex counties among others.
Newark, Paterson and Morristown, NJ
Area code 973 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
201
Split from
1997
973
This code
2001
862
Shares the area
- Newark
- Paterson
- Clifton
- Passaic
- East Orange
- Irvington
- Bloomfield
- Montclair
- West Orange
- Wayne
- Morristown
- Parsippany
These are the facts about area code 973.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Newark, Paterson and Morristown, New Jersey
- In service since
- 1997
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 862 (2001)
- Split from
- 201 (1947)
973 was split from 201 and entered service on June 1, 1997. Bergen and Hudson counties kept 201, and the rest of the old 201 area took the new code.
The Board of Public Utilities approved an overlay on March 19, 2001. Ten-digit dialing became mandatory on December 1, 2001, and 862 was laid over 973, entering service on December 29, 2001.
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People ask these questions about getting a 973 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 973 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 New Jersey: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Newark can put a 973 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 973 area takes in Newark, Paterson, Clifton, Passaic, East Orange and Montclair. 862 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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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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