An apartment for rent in Raleigh or Durham draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 984 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 984 numbers
Get a 984 phone number for Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill.
Ask for 984 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill 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 984 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 984 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
(984) 555-0123
Forwarding
Used bike
(984) 555-0168
Texts only
Roofing quote
(984) 555-0102
Blocked
People ask for 984 when the search is in Raleigh, Durham or Chapel Hill.
A used bike or a couch sold on a marketplace near Cary or Chapel Hill brings texts all week.
Post a 984 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 Apex or Wake Forest ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 984 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 984 number is from.
Area code 984 is an all-services overlay of 919, so it covers the same central North Carolina area, which the North Carolina Utilities Commission describes as in and around Raleigh.
Charlotte has 704 and 980, and Greensboro has 336.
Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, NC
Area code 984 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1954
919
Shares the area
2012
984
This code
- Raleigh
- Durham
- Cary
- Apex
- Chapel Hill
- Wake Forest
- Fuquay-Varina
- Garner
- Goldsboro
- Sanford
- Clayton
- Knightdale
These are the facts about area code 984.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- In service since
- 2012
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 919 (1954)
On March 13, 2001, the North Carolina Utilities Commission approved an overlay of 919, so no one had to change a number. 984 entered service in 2012, over the same area that already had 919.
Every local call has needed all ten digits since March 31, 2012, whether the number starts with 984 or 919.
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People ask these questions about getting a 984 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 984 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 North Carolina: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Raleigh can put a 984 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 984 area takes in Raleigh, Durham, Cary, Apex and Chapel Hill. 919 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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