Pick 817 if you want the code that has been here the longest.
817 entered service in 1953. The numbering administrator lists Arlington with Grandview, Weatherford and Rhome among the places around Fort Worth that use it.
The area codes for Arlington are 817 and 682.
Area codes in Arlington
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Arlington is covered by 817 and by 682, the code laid over it in 2000. The two codes serve it exactly as they serve Fort Worth, a few miles to the west.
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Pick 817 or 682 for Arlington, because the two cover the city in the same way.
Pick 682 if the number should look newer.
It took effect on October 7, 2000, and ten-digit dialing for local calls began the same day. A 682 number and an 817 number can sit on one street.
Pick 972 if you mean the Dallas side of the line.
Dallas, Irving and Grand Prairie sit to the north and east of Arlington and use 972 beside 214, 469 and 945.
People filed 282 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Arlington area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 282 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 817 and 682. 817 was named most, on 194 of them (69%).
- 282unwanted-call complaints named a Arlington code
- 817was named on the most of them, 194
- 69%of the Arlington complaints named 817
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. Arlington shares 817 and 682 with Fort Worth, and has done so since 682 was added in 2000.
No. Dallas uses 214, 972, 469 and 945. Arlington sits in Tarrant County with Fort Worth, which is the 817 and 682 side.
A local call in Arlington 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 282 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Arlington code: 817 (194) and 682 (88). 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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