A used boat or a trailer for sale near Houma or Morgan City draws buyers all season.
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Local 985 numbers
Get a 985 phone number for Houma, Slidell and Hammond.
Ask for 985 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as the towns around New Orleans, from Houma to Slidell. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 985 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 985 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
(985) 555-0144
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Boat for sale
(985) 555-0106
Texts only
Wedding quotes
(985) 555-0179
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People ask for 985 when the search is in Houma, Slidell or Hammond.
A room for rent near a campus in Hammond draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 985 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
A wedding or a catering order in Covington or Mandeville ends in follow-up calls.
Give each vendor its own 985 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 985 number is from.
Area code 985 serves the area surrounding the basic New Orleans local calling area, as the numbering administrator puts it. New Orleans itself uses 504.
The administrator's rate center lists name Houma, Slidell, Hammond, Thibodaux, Mandeville, Covington, Morgan City, Bogalusa, LaPlace, Ponchatoula, Amite City and Patterson.
Houma, Slidell and Hammond, LA
Area code 985 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
504
Split from
2001
985
This code
- Houma
- Slidell
- Hammond
- Thibodaux
- Mandeville
- Covington
- Morgan City
- Bogalusa
- LaPlace
- Ponchatoula
- Amite City
- Patterson
These are the facts about area code 985.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Houma, Slidell and Hammond, Louisiana
- In service since
- 2001
- Local calls are dialed with
- Seven digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Split from
- 504 (1947)
On June 21, 2000, the Louisiana Public Service Commission approved splitting the 504 area, and 985 entered service on February 12, 2001 for the area surrounding New Orleans.
On May 1, 2008, the Buras, Pointe a la Hache, Port Sulphur and Venice rate centers moved from 985 to 504. Local calls inside 985 are still dialed with seven digits, because Louisiana's 2021 ten-digit change listed 337 and 504 only.
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People ask these questions about getting a 985 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 985 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 Louisiana: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A mover, a tutor or a baker in Houma can put a 985 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 985 area takes in Houma, Slidell, Hammond, Thibodaux and Covington. New Orleans uses 504.
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. Read October 21, 2026.
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