A room for rent in College Station or Bryan draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 979 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the room is taken.
Local 979 numbers
Get a 979 phone number for Bryan and College Station.
Ask for 979 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Bryan, College Station, Brenham and the towns around them. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 979 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 979 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
Room for rent
(979) 555-0125
Forwarding
Used boat
(979) 555-0162
Texts only
Roofing quote
(979) 555-0106
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People ask for 979 when the search is in College Station, Bryan or Brenham.
A used truck or a fishing boat for sale near Lake Jackson or Freeport brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 979 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
A roofing quote or a moving job in Brenham or Bay City ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 979 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 979 number is from.
Area code 979 serves the cities of Angleton, Bay City, Brenham, Bryan, Clute, College Station, El Campo, Freeport, Hearne, Lake Jackson and Wharton, as the numbering administrator lists them.
Houston has its own codes, 936 covers Conroe and Huntsville, and 409 covers Beaumont and Galveston.
Bryan, College Station and Lake Jackson, TX
Area code 979 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1982
409
Split from
2000
979
This code
- College Station
- Bryan
- Lake Jackson
- Angleton
- Brenham
- Bay City
- El Campo
- Clute
- Freeport
- Wharton
- Hearne
- Sealy
These are the facts about area code 979.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Bryan, College Station and Lake Jackson, Texas
- In service since
- 2000
- Local calls are dialed with
- Seven digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Split from
- 409 (1982)
979 and 936 were created on February 19, 2000, when the old 409 area was split three ways. 409 kept Beaumont and Galveston.
Until August 5, 2000, either 409 or 979 reached a 979 number, and after that the old code no longer worked for those numbers. A local call inside 979 can be dialed with seven or ten digits, and a local call to another area code takes ten.
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People ask these questions about getting a 979 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 979 as the area code and give it a name, such as Room for rent. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in Texas: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Bryan can put a 979 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 979 area takes in Bryan, College Station, Brenham, Lake Jackson and Bay City.
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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