Pick 330 if the number should read as Akron.
The numbering administrator names Akron, Canton and Youngstown for 330, with Kent, Wooster and Medina on its rate center map.
The area codes for Akron are 330 and 234.
Area codes in Akron
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Akron uses 330, split from 216 in 1996, and 234, laid over it in 2000. Both cover northeastern Ohio, from Akron to Canton and Youngstown.
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Pick 330 for Akron, or 234 if you want the code laid over it.
Pick 234 if the number should look newer.
234 entered service on October 30, 2000, about a month after ten-digit dialing became mandatory.
Pick 216 if your customers are in Cleveland.
Greater Cleveland kept 216 when 330 was split off on March 9, 1996.
People filed 187 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Akron area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 187 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 330 and 234. 330 was named most, on 136 of them (73%).
- 187unwanted-call complaints named a Akron code
- 330was named on the most of them, 136
- 73%of the Akron complaints named 330
Source: Federal Communications Commission, CGB - Consumer Complaints Data (dataset 3xyp-aqkj), issue "Unwanted Calls", read on November 4, 2026. Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
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No. Since March 9, 1996 Akron has been in 330, and Cleveland kept 216.
Yes. Kent, Hudson and Medina are all in 330 and 234.
A local call in Akron is dialed with ten digits, whichever of its codes the number starts with. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 187 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Akron code: 330 (136) and 234 (51). A complaint is one person's report. Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
Yes. You type the area code you want when you create a number, and you do not need to live in Akron. Calls ring the phone you already have, and texts land in your ExpressNumber inbox.
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