Pick 505 if the number should read as Albuquerque.
The numbering administrator names Albuquerque, Bernalillo, Rio Rancho and Santa Fe among the places that kept 505.
The area code for Albuquerque is 505.
Area codes in Albuquerque
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505 is the one code of Albuquerque. It was the code of all of New Mexico until 2007, and now it covers the northwest, from Santa Fe to Farmington.
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Albuquerque has one area code.
Pick 505 for Albuquerque, the code New Mexico began with in 1947.
Pick 505 to reach Santa Fe and Los Alamos too.
Gallup, Grants and Farmington are in the same code, so one number serves the northwest of the state.
Pick 575 if the number is for Las Cruces or Roswell.
575 took the rest of New Mexico on October 7, 2007, including Taos.
People filed 85 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from the Albuquerque area code in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 85 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 505.
- 85unwanted-call complaints named a Albuquerque code
Albuquerque codes
How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with the Albuquerque code.
- 1505Albuquerque and Santa Fe85
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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On October 7, 2007 the state was split. The northwest kept 505, and Las Cruces, Roswell and Taos moved to 575.
No. 505 is the only code in its area. Ten-digit dialing for local calls became mandatory across New Mexico on October 24, 2021.
A local call in Albuquerque is dialed with ten digits. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 85 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Albuquerque code: 505 (85). 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.
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The codes, the places and the years are rows of the North American Numbering Plan Administrator's area code database, and the complaints are the FCC's own.
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